News goes inside power play between Yanks and A-Rod BY WAYNE COFFEY and T.J. QUINN On the cul-de-sac at the end of a Southern California canyon road, Scott Boras has a home the size of a small resort, complete with Pacific view. 波拉斯南加州度假豪宅 太平洋美景尽收眼底 There is a guest house there, where Alex and Cynthia Rodriguez annually come to decompress after the season. When they arrive within the next week or so, Alex will go to school. 阿肉跟肉嫂在这里有专属客房 "We're going to spend a week together. He has to go through a mountain of stuff; we'll go through it together," Boras says. 我们会花上一个星期时间在一起，波拉斯如是说，阿肉将有堆积如山的东西要看 The mountain of stuff includes the information Boras' 40-person negotiation staff has compiled, data that goes way beyond what you'll find on the back of his baseball card. Before Rodriguez decides whether to remain under contract with the New York Yankees or forgo the final three years of his deal for free agency - the deadline to decide is 10 days after the World Series ends - Boras will sell Rodriguez on himself. Boras will show the best player in baseball how, if you had looked at the careers of Willie Mays, Barry Bonds, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, etc., etc., when they were 32, none of them could have looked forward to the numbers that await A-Rod. Consequently, none of them was ever paid anything close to the numbers that await A-Rod. 这些堆积如山的资料，乃波拉斯的40人团队收集整理而来 不管阿肉的选择是续留洋基还是另觅出路，都要在世界大赛结束後十天内决定出来 "Then," Boras says. "He'll let me know." 小波说：阿肉会给我答案的 Boras describes this process as informing a client about what his true value is so he can make an informed decision. A lot of other people in baseball call it "brainwashing." 波拉斯说，我所做的就是把客户真正的价值告诉他....(也就是大家俗称的「洗脑」) "Boras is the ultimate Svengali," a veteran baseball insider says. "Alex will come to a conclusion and express a conviction, and if it's counter to Boras' thoughts or Boras' best interests, in a nanosecond he can make Alex change his mind. 「波拉斯根本就是斯文加利」，一位老江湖的内行人这麽说 只要十亿分之一秒，波拉斯就能够让犹豫不决的阿肉改变心意 (注：斯文加利是英国小说人物，用催眠术可使人唯命是从) "It's a very unorthodox relationship." 这是一种诡异的关系 Ever since Boras brought a 26-year-old Chicago Cub named Greg Maddux to Atlanta as a free agent in 1992, he has been called the "most hated" and the "most dangerous" and sometimes even "the most powerful" man in baseball, the man who will sacrifice the truth and his own clients' best interests in order to get record contracts. He has been called hypnotic and manipulative, able to maneuver owners into signing deals they had no business signing. 自从波拉斯把26岁的麦狗从小熊带到勇士，他就一直被喻为「最令人憎恨」以及 「最危险」，有时也被称为「喊水会结冻」有力的棒坛人物，可以牺牲掉真理和他客户 的最大利益，只为了得到空前的合约，必杀技是「催眠」跟「手腕高明」，擅用谋略让 老板们点头答应以前从没签下过的豪洨合约 Boras seems determined to get his player to free agency. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has vowed that he will seek a contract extension with Rodriguez, but if the player opts out, negating his deal and the $30 million subsidy the Yankees would get from the Texas Rangers over the next three years, the negotiations are over. 波拉斯倾向让他的客户成为自由球员 If both follow their telegraphed paths, A-Rod has played his last game as a Yankee. The question is whether either side is willing to destroy what seems to be a match made in Cooperstown: the best player in the game chasing the best records wearing the most famous uniform on the biggest stage. 最好的球员　追逐最优异的成绩　穿着最受欢迎的球衣　站在最顶级的舞台 "Everything I've heard from the Yankees suggests that they're prepared to stick with what they've said," one top major league executive says. "If they do, I think (Boras) has the potential for really messing this guy up. I think if you go out there and go team by team and he messes with the Yankees and ends up screwing up the potential for a deal there, you tell me who's going to pay this guy? Who's looking at six years at $30 million? Ten at 30? And the beauty is our boy A-Rod will follow him right down that path." 一位大联盟管理者说：波拉斯的做法，很有可能把阿肉弄臭 (A-ROD：偶凑了吗?偶凑了吗?) When asked about the Yankees' determination to end negotiations if A-Rod opts out, Boras talks about how the Cubs said the same thing about Maddux in 1992, only to frantically and unsuccessfully offer him money just before he signed with the Braves. 波拉斯旧事重提 老梗新用 拿以前麦狗跟小熊的事情出来喇赛 As always, Boras is ready for the attacks. Never losing the chuckle from his voice, Boras dismisses the anonymous "Svengali" shot the way he has for years: his clients always make up their own minds, he says, just as Rodriguez did as a kid when he signed a below-market value contract with Seattle rather than go to arbitration. 波拉斯对於外界对他的攻击，已经练成金刚不坏之身，没人伤得了他 一边得意的笑，一边驳斥关於"斯文加利"的无稽之谈 他说：「我的客户都可以自己做决定滴～」 你看，像以前阿肉年轻不懂事，就自己跟水手乱来..... "When Greg Maddux went to Atlanta, he did not take the largest deal. Charles Johnson did not take the largest deal. Kevin Brown did not take the largest deal. Bernie Williams did not take the largest deal when he stayed in New York," he says. "We pride ourselves with our clients making informed decisions. That is our job." 麦狗合约又不肥，强森也是，凯文布朗也是，波尼威廉斯留在洋基合约也不肥阿， 「我对於我们客户能够自己做出适当的决定感到自豪」 Boras is preparing a pitch that he believes will convince Rodriguez's next contractual partner that the team will benefit from increased attendance simply because A-Rod is the best player in the game. Its attendance will further benefit from his production and the increased number of wins. It also will benefit when he chases some of baseball's all-time records in the coming years (he has said that A-Rod will play until he's in his mid-40s and could hit 1,000 home runs). And a team with a regional sports network (such as YES, for example), the little engines that have driven baseball's revenues past $6 billion, would have the "iconic player" it needs to sell gobs of advertising. 重伸那套I.P.N.理论 The Yankees are well aware of what A-Rod will bring them, Boras says. He notes that since Rodriguez was traded to New York, annual attendance has increased every year, from 3.47 million the year before to 4.27 million this season. 我们家阿肉是洋基的金鸡母，财源滚滚来....观众都马想来看我们家阿肉 "Is it all A-Rod? I wouldn't say all of it, but I think he's certainly a factor in the raising of the attendance," he says. 就算不是全部都是阿肉的功劳，至少也是重要的因素吧 It's the Yankees' turn to chuckle now. One executive says of course the Bombers want A-Rod, "But we don't need him." When they enter their new stadium in 2009, no one player will fill the seats the way Babe Ruth did in 1923, "a winning team will." 现在换洋基咯咯笑了.... 一个高层表示：2009年洋基新球场启用後，没有任何一个球员的魅力，可以像贝比鲁斯 在1923年一样，让球场座无虚席 Whether the Yankees will truly turn their backs on A-Rod at any price if he opts out or not, officials from other clubs say there is only one strategy to deal with him, as theoretically should be the case with any negotiation: know what a player is worth to you, set your limits, and be willing to walk away if you don't get what you want. 清楚厘清一个球员对你的价值，设立停损点，如果拿不到你想要的，就闪人 "It's as simple as that," one American League executive says. "If you're running your organization right, you can never be in a position where you have to have something at all costs. Because if you're in that position with Scott Boras, he'll crush you." 一个美联高层表示，一但你跟波拉斯认真，你就输了，科~ But GMs who have dealt with Boras say they understand how it happened. 大部分的GM跟波拉斯接触时，都清楚会有什麽事花生 If the Yankees don't extend or re-sign Rodriguez, expected suitors include the Angels and the Cubs, with the Red Sox, Mariners, Dodgers, Giants and Mets as less-likely possibilities. But Boras says any team can afford Rodriguez's salary. The landscape has changed since 2001, when only a few teams could have paid A-Rod $252 million. 如果洋基不要阿肉，也没几个球团负担的起阿肉的薪资，不过波拉斯还是嘴硬不承认 "Now every team in baseball would take (the deal) because A-Rod pays for himself," Boras says. 波拉斯继续喇赛：只要有心 人人都负担的起阿肉 Part of Boras' sales pitch with all of his clients is the promise of longevity. He famously provides players with workout and nutritional regimens, and repeats the mantra that Rodriguez, for example, "has the body of a 25-year-old," and that any of his clients will exceed normal projections for a player's career. 我们家阿肉跟一个25岁的年轻小伙子一样威呢，我们可是有专属训练菜单捏 But after two Boras clients, St. Louis' Rick Ankiel and the Mets' Scott Schoeneweis, showed up on the client list of Signature Pharmacy as having received human growth hormone, and, in Schoeneweis' case, steroids, several executives say they will look twice at a Boras client, no matter who it is. 不过那些吃药的呢? (波拉斯："莫在提~莫再讲~") "When you represent Alex Rodriguez and you're talking to him when he's 16 years old and you're looking at the future and you're thinking he will be getting record contracts his whole career. Why? Because he's deserving of them," Boras says. "And it's not because of money. When they perform to the level where they produce, you want to make sure they're fairly - and I want to emphasize 'fairly' - evaluating their value and fairness for both sides. 再次谈到阿肉，波拉斯说： 「这孩子....当他16岁时，我就觉得他会出人头地...」 这不单是"钱"的问题，因为他的价值绝对值得这样的合约 "The question an owner will ask is, 'Is this good for the team?' That will be the sole process by which a decision will be made." 不过，如果身为一个老板，就会扪心自问：「靠腰，这样对一个球队是好的吗?」 "It has little to do with Scott Boras." 「只要龙五的手上有枪，谁都伤不了他」 翻个大意:) from:NYdaily --

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