原文出处： http://0rz.net/750Z7 -- AUBURN HILLS -- Jeff Reiter is an unabashed sports fanatic. He knows sports, he talks sports, and he appreciates their relevance in the everyday life of Metro Detroit. 奥本山宫殿报导 -- Jeff Reiter是一个打死不退的运动狂，他了解运动，谈论运动， 并且意识到他们与底特律Metro区日常生活的关联。 These days, the Pistons dominate his attention. 如今，活塞完全支配了他的注意力。 Winning will do that, especially this season with the club off to a torrid 27-5 start and speculation that the team might reach the NBA's magical number of 70 regular-season victories. 是胜利使然，尤其本季这支球队开季以来27胜5败的火热表现被预期也许例行赛胜场数 能达到不可思议的70。 In Hockeytown, the Pistons just might be the hottest game in town. 在Hockey镇，活塞的比赛可能是镇中最火热的。 "Most of my friends are sports guys," said Reiter, of Huntington Woods. "What is it they want to talk about? The Wings or the Pistons? It's 100 percent Pistons. The Pistons have definitely taken over." 来自Huntington Woods市的Reiter说"我大部分的朋友都是运动狂热者，他们喜欢谈论 什麽？红翼或活塞？百分之百都是活塞，活塞完全吸引了他们的注意力。" Part of the increased fan interest has something to do with the talk of 70 wins . 部分网路上的新球迷对於活塞能否拿到70胜有些意见。 "I plan to see it happen," said 11-year-old Spencer Schredder, a sixth-grader at Covington School in Birmingham, of the Pistons run toward 70. "I have faith in the Pistons." 来自伯明翰Covington小学的小六生，11岁的Spencer Schredder对於活塞能否拿到70 胜表示"我希望看到它发生，我对活塞有信心。" Excuse coach Flip Saunders if he wonders why all the fuss. 总教练老桑认为大家太小题大作了。 "We've got 70," Saunders said with a straight face. "Look at the stats from last year. Our team won 78 games." 老桑面带坚毅的神情道"我们曾经赢得70胜，看看去年的统计数据，球队一共赢了78场 球赛。" OK, you have to grant him that point. In the calendar year of 2005, the Pistons did indeed win 78 games -- 63 during the regular season and 15 in the playoffs. 没错，你必须同意他的说法。看看'05年的月历，活塞的确赢了78场比赛 -- 包括63场 正规赛及15场季後赛。 "There you go," said Saunders, with a wry smile. "We've already accomplished it ." 老桑幽默地笑着"是吧，我们已经完成那目标。" The issue, as Saunders knows, isn't wins in a calendar year. It is wins in one season, and only one NBA team has ever won 70 or more games during one regular season: the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls, who finished 72-10 in 1995-96. 当然啦，老桑也知道，球迷们期待的不是一整年一共赢了多少场球，而是在单一球季 赢了几场，而NBA史上唯一在单一球季赢得70甚至更多场球的队伍是'95-'96球季由飞天神 牛M.Jordan所带领的芝加哥公牛队，他们该季的战绩为72胜10败。 -- Increasing numbers 节节上升的数据 Interest in streaks and records often is generated by the media and sustained by fans' passion. 对於连胜及记录的兴趣通常是由媒体所引起而由球迷的热情所维持。 Truth is, the prospect of winning 70 games is so far off the Pistons' radar, the players have to be coaxed into talking seriously about it. 事实上，赢得70场比赛的期望近来已排除於活塞的目标之外，但球员们仍必须假装很 严肃地谈论它。 (译按：我承认这句在乱翻，看不懂咩XDDDDD) "I have not had one conversation with one single player about that," Pistons guard Chauncey Billups said. "It's good to write about that, you know, because I guess we are in striking distance, or whatever. But that is such an amazing feat, it's tough to even fathom right now. It's early January." 活塞後卫枪蜥说"我没跟任一位球员谈论过这件事，这样写很不错，你知道的，因为我 猜我们正走在通往70胜的路上。不过那是一个相当了不起的壮举，现在来谈论球队是否有 达成的可能甚至太困难，才刚一月耶。" Being in striking distance is enough for most fans, who are watching the team in record numbers, in person and on television. 保有取得70胜的可能性对大多数的球迷而言已经够了，对不管是亲自到场或在电视前 观看比赛的球迷来说。 The Pistons have led the NBA in average attendance the past three seasons and recorded their 100th straight sellout last Friday. 活塞过去三个球季以来到场看球的球迷数量领先其他NBA的球队，且在上星期五创下连 续100场门票售罄的纪录。 And their television ratings have skyrocketed. 而他们比赛的电视收视率也疯狂飙高。 FSN Detroit has televised 14 games this season, averaging a 6.3 household rating in Metro Detroit. That's an increase of 78 percent from the same point last year. 底特律FSN电视台本季已经转播活塞的球赛14场，在底特律Metro区有6.3的高收视率， 这比去年同时期的收视率增加了78%。 Before this season, the cable network's best regular-season game rating was 6.4 . That number has been eclipsed five times this year, including a high of 8.6 for a Dec. 19 game at Memphis. Two other games have had ratings of 8.0 or higher. 本季以前，有线电视台转播季赛的最佳收视率是6.4%，这纪录今年已经被打破5次，包 括最高一次12月19日在孟斐斯挑战灰熊那场比赛8.6%的收视率，还有另外2场比赛转播收视 率达到8%，甚至更高。 WDFN 1130, which carries the Pistons radio broadcasts, recently extended its contract for three years. 负责播报活塞战事的运动广播电台WDFN 1130最近和球队延长3年的播报权合约。 Apparently, Pistons fans can't get enough. 很显然地，活塞的球迷们还不满足。 Merchandise sales have increased 35 percent from a year ago -- the women's clothing line has doubled in sales -- and the Pistons even found the need to open a satellite "holiday" store at the Village of Rochester Hills. The 2,500-square-foot Locker Room store devoted to selling all things Pistons opened just before Thanksgiving and closes this month. 活塞的系列商品销售量比一年前成长了35% -- 女装销售量更是整整成长了一倍 -- 他 们甚至发现有必要在罗彻斯特丘的小镇开上一间"假日"分店，这间面积达2,500平方英尺， 布置成球员休息室风格的活塞商品专卖店，仅在感恩节前夕开放，并在这个月关闭。 There are permanent Locker Room stores at The Palace, in Great Lakes Crossing and at the Star Theatre complex in Southfield. 另外还有不打烊的球员休息室风专卖店，地点在宫殿球场里、大湖渡口购物中心及 Southfield市的星光电影院复合式商店。 -- Holding court Clearly, the increased interest has to do with the product. 很明显地，因为活塞的精采表现所以球迷的数量正逐渐增加。 The team won the NBA title two seasons ago and were the runners-up last season. They are winners, and who doesn't like that? 这支球队在2年前赢得NBA总冠军盃并在去年与总冠军盃擦身而过，他们是赢家，有谁 不喜欢擅於赢球的队伍呢？ "The Pistons combine almost everything you want in a professional team," Reiter said. "They're good guys, but they're not boring good guys." Reiter说"活塞结合了几乎所有你想在一支职业球队看到的元素，他们是一群优秀的球 员，但他们也不讨厌同样出色的队伍。" But even good guys could have a tough time winning 70 games. Just try wrapping your mind around these numbers: 　　不过就算是一支好球队想要赢得70场比赛也不容易，你只要试着在心中盘算一下这些 数字就知道了： To get to 70 (and remember, that would still be two off the Bulls record), the Pistons would have to go 43-7 the rest of the way. 要达到70胜(记得，这还差公牛的纪录2场)，活塞剩下的比赛必须拿到43胜7败。 The Bulls had 42 wins by the All-Star break. To match that, the Pistons would have to go 15-4 in the 19 games before the break. 公牛在全明星周末前就已经取得42胜，要追平公牛，活塞必须在剩下19场比赛取得15 胜4败。 And if they did that -- remarkable in itself -- they would still have to win 28 of their last 31 games to get to 70. They would have to win 30 of 31 to equal the Bulls. 而且如果他们真能做到 -- 别忘了 -- 他们仍需在最後31场比赛取得28胜才能达到70 胜的里程碑，他们必须在最後31场比赛取得30胜才足以追平公牛72胜的传奇纪录。 "I don't know (if the Pistons) are ever going to be able to break that record -- or anybody, for that matter," said TNT analyst Steve Kerr, who played on the 1995-96 Bulls team. "When you think about those numbers, they are startling." 曾效力於'95-'96公牛队的现任TNT球评扫地僧Kerr表示"我不晓得(活塞是否)有办法打 败那纪录 -- 或任何人，就那纪录而言，当你认真思考那些数字，你会发现那真的很惊人 。" That Bulls team was 39-2 at home, 33-8 on the road. They essentially had the No. 1 spot in the East locked up by mid-January. They won their 60th game March 21, in the 67th game of the season. They won No. 70 with three games left in the season. Three of their losses were by one point. 那支公牛主场战绩是39胜2败，客场则为33胜8败。基本上他们在一月中就确定能取得 东区第一的战绩，他们在3月21日例行赛第67场比赛赢得第60胜，在球季剩下3场比赛时赢 得第70胜，有3场比赛仅以1分饮恨。 "We didn't really care about that record until about the last month," said Bucks forward Toni Kukoc, another member of that Bulls team. "Once we got to 60 wins and we figured there was actually a chance to break it, we paid a little bit more attention to it but it's really hard. It's not that you just have to show up; you've got to play really well." 另一位当时曾效力公牛的公鹿前锋T.Kukoc说"我们直到上个月都不曾担心那纪录，一 旦我们赢得60胜後我们会认为真的有机会挑战那个纪录，我们更加认真比赛却发现想打破 那纪录真是难如登天。那不是你想要就能达到的，而是必须有相当相当出色的表现才有机 会。" Pistons assistant Ron Harper was a starting guard on that Bulls team. He doesn't think the Pistons should even let the thought of 70 wins enter their minds. 活塞助理教练R.Harper过去曾担任公牛队的先发後卫，他认为活塞球员们不应该让想 在例行赛取得70胜的念头进入他们的心里面。 "I tell these guys to take it one game at a time and anything can happen," he said. "And if it happens, I will be happy. Because that would mean I did it twice -- once as a player and once as a coach." 他说"我告诉他们每一晚只要专注於一场比赛，而且什麽事都可能发生。如果他们真能 做到，我将会很高兴。因为那代表我参与其中2次 -- 一次我身为球员，另一次则是教练的 身分。" Most of the other Bulls don't share Harper's view on that. 公牛其他大部分的球员并不认同Harper的看法。 "Obviously," Kukoc said, "you want to keep a record going for a long time. It was a great achievement. Somewhere deep inside you hope nobody breaks it." Kukoc说"显然地，你希望能保有纪录很长一段时间。那是个伟大的成就，在你内心深 处不希望有任何人破坏它。" Truth be told, the Pistons couldn't care less about the record. 事实是，活塞不会去在意这个纪录。 "At this point, that's something that's irrelevant to us," said Dale Davis, a 15-year veteran who has played on 56- and 59-win teams at Indiana. "The ultimate goal is the ring, to win a championship. The focus is to get the best possible position we can for the playoffs." 已经在联盟中打滚15年的老将D.Davis过去在溜马效力期间球队曾有过56胜及59胜的纪 录，他表示"此时此刻，那是与我们不相干的事。我们的最终目标是戒指，赢取总冠军盃。 我们的焦点摆在尽可能於季後赛取得较高的种子席位。" Saunders correctly points out that they don't give out any additional prizes for 70-win seasons, and to pursue such a goal would run counter to how the Pistons operate. 老桑正确地指出活塞不会刻意去追求赢得一个可遇不可球的70胜球季，而因此与球队 真正冀求的目标背道而驰。 "This team is set up with the idea of having success in the playoffs," he said. "We aren't going to do anything to jeopardize success in the playoffs, especially not to chase after something like that. And if you ask me the same thing with three weeks left in the season, I will tell you the same thing. 他说"这支球队的目标是设定在季後赛获胜，我们不会去做任何可能影响我们季後赛战 力的事，尤其是不会刻意去追求像这样的纪录。就算你是在球季只剩下3个礼拜时问我这个 问题，我也会告诉你相同的答案。" "We approach each game with the idea of giving ourselves a chance to win. But you can't be out there chasing and searching." "每一场比赛我们都希望自己能够获胜，但也不能太过汲汲营营。" --

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