※ [本文转录自 A-Rod 看板] 作者: Ally1213 (No other way) 看板: A-Rod 标题: Re: [新闻] A-Rod feels nostalgic while hosting … 时间: Sun Nov 18 20:33:13 2007 影片在http://tinyurl.com/yojc85 http://tinyurl.com/3dtnlc A-Rod gets in touch with roots Superstar hosts 85 youngsters for two-hour baseball clinic A-Rod往下紮根 By Charlie Nobles / Special to MLB.com MIAMI -- Alex Rodriguez was filled with nostalgia and the memories came flood- ing back Saturday as he returned to the baseball fields of his youth to con- duct a clinic for 85 youngsters between 9 and 14 years old. A-Rod心里充满了怀旧之情，过去的回忆如潮水般沓涌而来，星期六他回到年轻 用过的球场时。他回到这里指导85位9到14岁的年轻球员。 The celebrated third baseman described the Southwest Miami Boys & Girls Club as a "sort of third parent for me, because my parents were so busy working. I spent hundreds of thousands of hours here -- seven days a week." 这位着名的三垒手形容西南迈阿密男孩女孩俱乐部"有点像我父母以外的第三亲，因 为我父母都忙着工作，我待在这里的时间以百、以千个小时计算，一个星期七天都 在这。" Rodriguez remembers falling asleep on a couch in a coach's office, recalls hitting perhaps his favorite home run here, thinks of the day he wept as a 10-year-old because he felt he disappointed his mother. A-Rod记得他有一次在某个教练办公室的沙发上睡着了，追忆起自己的打击，在此地 所打出的最自豪的全垒打；想着他哭得像10岁男孩的那天，因为当时他觉得自己让 母亲失望。 In that later memory, he said about 1,000 people crowded around the club's main field, which he equated to having 300,000 at Yankee Stadium. He said he was feeling particularly nervous about a big game because his mother, brother and sister would attend. 关於最後一个回忆，A-Rod说那场比赛球场边挤满了大约1000名观众，(对他而言就像 现在洋基球场的3万人一样多)他觉得特别紧张，因为他的母亲、兄弟姐妹都会到场。 A high throw came toward him at one point. When he couldn't get his glove on it, he thought he had let his mother down, even though he went on to hit the game-winning home run. 当他漏接了迎面而来的一颗球，他想自己让母亲丢脸了，尽管最後他打了一只致胜的 全垒打。 "To me, it was a barometer beyond disappointing her," he said. "It was pro- bably that I cared too much and that I wanted to be great really bad." "对我来说，那个漏接就像令她失望的临界点一样；大概是因为我太在乎了，我太 想有好的表现。" Rodriguez said baseball soon was to become his hope for a better life and getting out of Westchester, a lower-middle-class neighborhood about 10 miles from the club. And he gave a similar message to those at Saturday's clinic. A-Rod说很快地棒球就变成了他的希望，去追求一个更好的生活，离开中低阶层街 坊。而他也在周六的活动传递类似的讯息给小朋友。 "You can do whatever you want with baseball," he told the youngsters as the two-hour clinic began. "I also want you to think a lot about education, about the SAT. The SAT will be one of the most important things you take in your life, because it can influence what college you go to, maybe what opportu- nities you get along the way. I am passionate about education." "关於棒球，你们就是尽己所能去去做；我要你们严肃地思考教育，思考SAT，这将是 你们人生中最重要的事之一，因为它能影响你的大学选择，或甚至是将来能得到的各 种机会。我对於教育充满热诚。" After a pause, he added, "I always wanted to be better, but I didn't really think it would be baseball for me. I really didn't think I had the ability to be what I am today. But with time and hard work and confidence, I've become that person." 短暂停顿後A-Rod又说：" 我一直想要更好，但是我当时真的没有想到对我来说那 会是棒球让我(的人生)更好，我甚至不认为自己有能去成为今天的我，但是随着 时间流逝，以及努力与自信，我成为了那个自己。" Then he talked about alcohol and drugs. 然後他谈到酒精与毒品 "A bunch of garbage," he said, noting that he is proudest that he has never touched a drug. "都是垃圾。" 他说，他以自己未曾接触过毒品为傲。 One youngster asked him what kind of sacrifice it has taken to become a Major Leaguer. 其中一位小朋友问他，他为了成为大联盟选手而做了什麽牺牲。 Rodriguez described the sacrifice in anecdotal terms: he missed his senior prom at Miami Westminster Christian High because he played in a baseball all- star game (it was the year he became the No. 1 overall pick in the country); he said he hit near the bottom of the order on his Little League teams, but that never stopped him from working harder. For instance, he would arrive at school in the seventh grade an hour and a half early every day so he could keep a workout schedule. A-Rod以趣味的方式形容他的"牺牲"，为了参加明星赛，他错过了高中的舞会。A-Rod 说他那时的打击并不是很好，但是他却从未放弃，反而更努力。举例来说，7年级的 时候他每天会提早一个半小时到学校，做规律的训练。 "I don't recommend anybody doing that because you wind up smelly and stinky before homeroom," he said to chuckles from the kids. "But it's the kind of thing you do as a kid that could drive you to the next level." "不过我不是很建议大家都这样做，因为你们会流汗而变得臭摸摸、黏搭搭。"他对 吃吃笑的小朋友说："但是如果你想要跃升到另一个层级，那就是你该做的事。" Rodriguez said that once he became a touted prospect in high school, he would joke among his friends that if he could ever play five years in the Majors and make $1 million, "I'd be the happiest guy in the world." Rich Hofman, Rodriguez's high school coach at Westminster Christian, couldn't contain himself. He interjected with a laugh, "Are you saying you are 275 times happier now?" That was in reference to Rodriguez's looming deal with the Yankees in the range of $275 million over 10 years. A-Rod说，当他受到了球探的青睐，他跟朋友开玩笑说："如果我能在大联盟打5年球， 而且赚一百万，我就会是世界上最快乐的人。" A-Rod高中时的教练不可遏抑地笑说 "你是说你现在的快乐是过去的275倍？" 这玩笑话当然是出於最近的新合约内容 Rodriguez didn't respond. Instead, he happily introduced Hofman as the "John Wooden of high school baseball coaches," and Hofman began breaking the young- sters into three groups for instruction. A-Rod没有回应。他快乐地介绍Hofman为"高中棒球教练的John Wooden"，而Hofman开 始将小朋友分成三组，以作个别指导 As you might guess, Rodriguez handled much of the instruction on hitting. He told the kids that he hits off a tee virtually every day of the season, that it is a wonderful tool to gauge one's swing. Yankees hitting coach Kevin Long, who has signed a three-year extension with the team, was at the clinic to verify the statement. 大家都猜得到，A-Rod负责大部分的打击指导。他告诉小朋友，球季中他每天对着高 尔夫发球座打，发球座是个判断挥棒动作的好工具。洋基的打击教练也证实这个说法 After each youngster hit several balls, Rodriguez would invariably say, "Nice job" or "Good job." One youngster hit the ball with unusual power, albeit on an arc that might suggest an uppercut swing. 每个小朋友挥击後，A-Rod会说一些鼓励赞美的话。其中一人打球的力道特别大，从 挥击的弧度来看是由下往上挥打造成 Rodriguez rolled a ball about six feet in front of the plate and said, "Try to hit that ball." The youngster then took a more level swing, hitting a hard grounder. A-Rod特别从本垒6尺前丢球给他打 A little later, with another group, Rodriguez gathered them at the end and said, "The greatest thing is you have to know you can hit, you have to want to hit and you've got to be confident in the box. So if you're ever in that box, you tell yourself, 'I'm better than the guy on the mound.' I want you to never forget that, OK?" 稍後另外一组，A-Rod在练习结束後把小朋友集合起来，告诉他们："最重要的事就是 你们知道如何击球，当你们站上打击区，必须要有击中球的慾望与信心，告诉自己， 我比投手丘上的那家伙还更好。我希望你们不要忘记这些，好吗？" To another group, he said that six of the youngsters at the clinic would wind up in the Major Leagues. Then he said, "The question you have to ask yourself is, 'Am I going to be one of them?' 至於第三组，A-Rod对他们说，今天参加的小朋友中，有六位能成为大联盟球员，"唯一 该问你们自己的问题是，我能成为他们吗？" Many parents of the participants gathered around the fences to try to pick up every word from Rodriguez, who was dressed in a black shirt and black workout pants. 许多家长也在场，并且试着捕捉A-Rod所说的每句话 (阿肉当天全身黑衣 ^^) Leanne Trigoura, there to see her 10-year-old son, Jorge Trigoura, seemed typical of the appreciative parents. "It's inspiring to him to see someone who has been successful," she said of her son. "Not only inspiring when he plays baseball, but other sports as well and in studying hard." "亲见某位成功人士对孩子来说是种激励与鼓舞，不只是打棒球，还包括其他运动以及 念书。" At clinic's end, each youngster was treated to lunch and given a red bag that included two batting gloves, a fielder's glove, miniature bat, a hat and a Rodriguez children's book entitled, "Out of the Ballpark." 课程结束後这些小朋友被招待午餐以及一人一个福袋，里面有两个打击手套，一个防守 用手套，一个小型球棒，一顶帽子还有一本A-Rod夫妇合着的童书 Rodriguez told them, "When you see me on television, when you see me here, know I am the most humble and blessed human being on this earth. And that's why I think it's a responsibility for me to be here. You don't even have to thank me. It's my duty; it's my obligation. Now it's your job to try to live your dreams and play with me in the Major Leagues." A-Rod告诉他们："当你们看到我在电视上，当你们看到我在这，你们知道我是这个世界 上最受祝福也是最该谦逊的人，这也是为什麽我认为今天在这里是我的责任。你们不用 谢我，因为这是我的责任我的义务。现在，是你们要去为着梦想而活，并且上大联盟 跟我一起打球。" As a send-off, he told them that he once attended a clinic conducted by Alex Fernandez, then a pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, and they played against each other in the Majors just seven years later. 最後当做临别送礼，A-Rod告诉小朋友们他曾经参加过类似的练习营，接受Alex Fernandez 以及一位白袜队的投手的指导；仅仅在7年之後，他们就在大联盟重逢，以敌对之姿。 想来想去还是把它翻出来，因为我很喜欢这篇新闻。 抱歉占了两篇的版面 :P -- 『可否答应我最後一次，如我所想你般地想我一天？ 最後，让我再放肆且温柔地向你说一声──我爱你。』 --

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