本日最中肯的意见，难得Kepner写这种文章 重点: 小老板希望洋基有光芒那样的活力，但耐得住一到两年几乎垫底的痛苦吗? 1. 当洋基低潮持续时，小老板Hank也失去了耐心 2. 当一个球队专属的运动作家(beat writer)，一般Kepner不想做的就是质疑这个球队的 表现。他认为这麽作是相当危险的，除非有大量明显的证据否则他都不想提出质疑。最 要不得的事莫过於说一个球员或一个球队的球员就是打得不用心。 3. 现在透过Kevin Kernan转叙，我们听到了Hank Steinbrenner却作了很多这样的事。 Steinbrenner告诉Kernan说: "我不是说他们打得不尽力，只是他们必需打得更努力点 。"他还补上一句话说: "洋基球员应该开始学光芒队打球的方式。洋基球员必须开始像 他们年轻时想要追求一份大合约时的拼命法，他们现在要觉得他们好像3A球队打球努力 想要进到大联盟。这样的态度和火力是洋基球员必须表现出来的。" (这种讲法连 Kepner都看不下去了) 4. 昨晚Jason Giambi七局率先打出一发像子弹般的球飞到右外野，但是他又老又慢，只能 跑成一垒打。(小老板难不成要Giambi马上年轻20岁马上飞到三垒)。最後洋基在第七局 留下了一个在三垒的残垒。那这是不是说明Giambi缺乏火力了? 绝对不是，昨晚他四次 打击四次都上垒，他只是局限在他的能力但尽力去比赛了。 5. 光芒队打球侵略心很强，甚至一些洋基球员都感受到两队打球方式的差异。在九局一 出局情况打出追平比数洋春弹的松井秀喜便表示: "光芒的精力绝对是超过我们球队 的。" 6. 但有时候却冲得太过份了会伤到球队。第六局一出局时Eric Hinske跃身扑接Derek Jeter打出的安打。可以预期的是，没接到後等他拿到球时Jeter已经跑到三垒变成三垒 安打。这对Hinske而言是个不好的赌注，还好Edwin Jackson维持住0-1的比数没有丢分 。 7. 这是去年拿到5胜15败的同一位Edwin Jackson。23岁的年纪去年拿到5胜15败的成绩还 让他维持在光芒队先发轮值的位置，今年看起来他的球技就更亮丽点了。 8. 假如一个洋基的年轻投手拿到5胜15败的成绩，他还可以在洋基的先发轮值里保有他的 位置吗? Tom Glavine变成勇士队的王牌投手前的成绩是7胜17败，Greg Maddux变成小 熊队的王牌投手前的成绩是6胜14败。在很多事情上Hank Steinbrenner都说他对年轻 球员有耐心，但Steinbrenner又渴求立即获得胜利。 9. 这样的目标可是相互冲突的，这就是为什麽这种转换洋基文化的想法是这麽令人感到 迷惑。洋基球队从来就不曾像光芒那麽年轻及看起来那麽有活力；就根本就不是洋基 在YES Network和新洋基球场的年代里能够看得的洋基球队的样子。 10. 但是假如Steinbrenner希望洋基队更像光芒队 － 无论如何我们听到的是这样? 那他可能要习惯洋基需要一到两年(成绩很烂)的过渡时期。 资料来源:http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/ Patience Wears Thin as Yankees Slump Continues By Tyler Kepner Tags: Edwin Jackson, Hank Steinbrenner, Jason Giambi, Yankees One of the things I generally won’t do as a beat writer is question a team’ s effort. I’ve always thought it’s dangerous, unless there is a large amount of obvious evidence. There’s nothing more damning than to say an athlete or a group of athletes just doesn’t care. Now, via Kevin Kernan, we have Hank Steinbrenner pretty much doing just that. “I’m not saying they are not giving the effort, but they need to be playing harder,” Steinbrenner told Kernan, adding that the Yankees have “got to start playing the way the Rays are playing. (The Yankees) need to start treating it like when they were younger players and going after that big contract, like they’re in (Triple-A) and trying to make the majors. That’s the kind of attitude and fire the players have to have.” Attitude? Fire? Is that what’s really wrong with the Yankees? A team like the Yankees always looks old and slow when they’re losing, and here’s why — they are. Jason Giambi led off the seventh inning last night with a bullet to the right field corner. But he’s old and slow, and he could only get a single, and the Yankees left a man on third that inning. Does that mean Giambi lacks fire? Not at all. He reached base four times last night. He’s just limited in what he can do. The Rays play aggressively, and even some Yankees sense a difference in style. Hideki Matsui, whose one-out homer tied the game in the ninth, admitted, “Their energy is definitely more than ours.” But sometimes that works against a team. Eric Hinske inexplicably dove for a hit by Derek Jeter last night with one out in the sixth. Predictably, the ball got by him and Jeter had a triple. It was a bad gamble by Hinske, but Edwin Jackson survived the jam. That would be the same Edwin Jackson who went 5-15 last season. At 23 years old, he kept his place in the Rays’ rotation and looks a lot more polished now. If a young Yankees pitcher went 5-15, would he keep his spot? Tom Glavine went 7-17 before becoming an ace for the Braves. Greg Maddux went 6-14 before becoming an ace for the Cubs. Among the many things Hank Steinbrenner has said is that he will be patient with young pitchers. Yet Steinbrenner also burns to win immediately. Those can be conflicting goals, and that is why this attempt at a transformation of the Yankees’ culture is so fascinating. They may never be as young and outwardly energetic as the Rays; that’s just not the Yankees’ makeup in this era of the YES Network and the new Yankee Stadium. But if Steinbrenner wants to be more like the Rays – and whoever thought we’ d hear that? – he might have to live with a year or two of transition. --

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