Coach Curt Earlier this month, Schilling was inducted into the Philadelphia Phillies’ Wall of Fame, honored by a team he won 101 games for and helped lead to the 1993 World Series. But he says he would rather have been with his girls, coaching softball. 月初费城人想邀他去Philadelphia Phillies’Wall of Fame的活动，表扬他在费城的101 胜，并帮助他们在打进世界大赛。不过Schilling告知球团他想跟垒球队的女孩子们在一 起。 “’Cause I love this,” he says. “I have a huge advantage. I’ve already been famous. These girls, no matter what they win, will never make me famous. I want these girls to go to college, to get an education paid for, and they can. And I can make them better doing that.” 「因为我喜欢。我有很大的优势─我已经很有名了。而这些女孩，不管怎麽赢球都不会 让我有名。我希望他们念大学、接受教育，我知道他们可以。我可以让他们更能做到。」 The other coaches, the girls, and the parents love Coach Curt. 其他教练、女孩和家长们都喜欢他。 “He is a great guy who has really taught our daughters a lot on the field,” writes Kelly Johnson, a parent, in an e-mail. “But also, more importantly, a lot about life lessons off of the field, which at the end of the day is definitely really what matters most.” 其中一位球员的家长Kelly Johnson来信：「他是个很棒的人，在场上用心教导我们的女 儿─但更重要的是他在场下也会敎他们人生课程─这才是最重要的。」 Schilling has had to retool his tough guy image, because there is crying in girls’ softball. Schilling也得扭转硬汉形象，因为队员会哭。 “The challenge for me is that they are a lot more emotional,” he says. 「最大的挑战就是他们比较情绪化。」 But there are pluses as well. “Girls are easier to coach,” he says. “They do exactly what you ask them to do.” 「不过他们比较好带，他们会照着你说的去做。」 But right now at Walt Disney World, there is trouble brewing. The Mass Drifters are in the losers’ bracket of the World Series — lose and they go home. 不过Mass Drifters现在落入败部，再输一场就要回家。 ( 文中的迪士尼：https://twitter.com/USSSAPride/status/361953234442657792 ) Coach Curt has seen worse jams. In 2004, he beat the Yankees and then the Cardinals with blood oozing from his surgically repaired ankle to help end an 86-year-old Boston curse. He was a hero, paraded around the Magic Kingdom in a shiny red convertible with Mickey Mouse. 不过总仔看过大风大浪罗，2004年纪後赛、血袜、打破诅咒，最後在波士顿光荣大游行。 This time is different. Here, there are no crowds, only devoted parents watching their girls play. 物换星移，没有满山满谷的观众，只有球员的家人观战。 At first glance, Schilling is just another soft-bellied coach, lugging a camouflage backpack and equipment bags on the steamy back fields behind the baseball stadium. 一瞥之下，Schilling只是个在球场後方拉着装备袋的中年教练。 In the previous day’s loss, the team was listless. Schilling, in his second year coaching, says they looked like 11 players who wanted to be in 11 different dugouts. 钱一场吞败後，整个球队萎靡不振。执教第二年的Schilling表示他们像是11个不同球队 的球员。 “They played like dog [expletive],” he says. “And they knew it.” 「打的像狗屎一样，她们也知道。」 So he called a team meeting. This would be the polar opposite of the famous “ why not us?” mantra he preached during the Red Sox’ 2004 championship season. Schilling召开了球队会议。不过这跟2004年的“why not us?”有着天壤之别。 “I said, ‘Here’s what’s going to happen. I will forfeit tomorrow’s game and you will go home. You’re not going to put this uniform on and go out there with what I saw today.’ And it had nothing to do with making errors. It was the attitude and the effort. So they sat down there for a good hour and talked amongst themselves.” 「我说，接下来会这样：我会放弃明天的比赛，你们都会回家─跟今天我看到的一样的话 ，你们明天不会穿上那件球衣。这跟今天的失误无关，而是跟态度、努力有关。」 她们接着在那里长谈。 His daughter, Gabriella Schilling, plays first base. Last year, she threw her arm out of its socket while pitching, requiring reconstructive shoulder surgery. Stubborn as her father and wearing his No. 38, she fought with him to get back into the lineup. Schilling的女儿Gabriella Schilling守一垒。去年Gabriella投球投到脱臼，动了肩部 重建手术。不过跟他的老爸一样硬，这位一样穿着38号的小球员历经波折後重回打线。 Before the rains, the Drifters rallied to go ahead in their last at-bat on a double by Georgia Lapierre, a rail-thin freshman catcher from Attleborough, Mass. In the bottom half of the inning, Gabby Schilling made a bullet throw home to end the game in a cloud of dust. 下雨之前，Drifters靠着最後打击的捕手Georgia Lapierre打出二垒安打超前，下半局则 是靠着Gabby Schilling雷射肩干掉回本垒跑者结束比赛。 “I was unbelievably proud,’’ says her father. “This kicks the [expletive] out of anything I did playing baseball.’’ 「不可思议的光荣感，这感觉比我打棒球期间还屌。」 Better than the bloody sock game? 比血袜还好？ “Well, it’s different,” says Schilling. “This is harder, way harder, because I don’t have any control over this.” 「不太一样，这比较困难─我没办法控制。」 Making him proud It bothered Schilling to auction off the bloody sock, which fetched $92,612.50 in February. 拍卖血袜的事情让Schilling心烦。(血袜在二月以$92,612.50卖出) “All that stuff bothered me,” he says. “I sold all that stuff to pay the banks back for the note, instead of filing bankruptcy and keeping it all, I sold it all. It sucks.’’ 「这些东西让我心烦，」Schilling表示：「我卖掉这些东西来赎债券，而不是留着这些 东西然後破产。」 "It Sucks." But none of that matters now. When the Drifters switch fields and promptly make six errors in the first inning to fall behind, 5-0, Coach Curt does not scream at them, he chirps encouragement. Schilling tells the girls there are zero players in Cooperstown who never made an error. 不过这都不重要了。Drifters第一局交换攻守後发生六次失误，马上以0-5落後，这时 Schilling没有大吼大叫，他鼓励她们、告诉他们Cooperstown的球员也都会发生失误。 “Grind it out,” he orders. 「撑过去。」Schilling下令。 The Drifters battle back and tie the score. At one point, Schilling sees something and moves his left fielder back eight steps — perfect position to catch the ensuing line drive. Drifters反攻後追平比数。後来Schilling好像看出什麽之後，叫左外野手後退八步─ 完美接住下一个平飞球的位置。 “Almost looks like he knows what he’s doing,” says assistant coach Dan Zucco, laughing. “He has one of those every game or two.” 助理教练Dan Zucco笑着说：「简直就像他知道接下来会怎样。每场都会来一两次。」 Another time, Schilling predicts a two-run home run by sweet-swinging Maddy Barone of Taunton, Mass. Then came the thunder, the lightning, and the rain. 他还预测到Maddy Barone会扛出两分炮。接下来开始打雷、下雨。 After a one-hour delay, the Drifters move to another field that has lights and resume play. Schilling takes a pinch of Skoal and asks for somebody to “ be a hero.” 延了一小时之後更换到有照明的场地，Schilling揪了一小撮菸草之後要某人「当英雄」。 The Drifters score three times for an 8-5 victory. After the last out, Schilling shuts his ever-present notebook and fist-bumps all the girls. Drifters接下来得了三分，已8-5拿下胜利。拿下最後一个出局数之後，Schilling阖上一 直拿着的笔记本，和球员们振臂欢呼。 He addresses the troops. “As mad and as angry and disappointed as I was yesterday, I am equal parts incredibly proud of what I just watched,” he says. “We went from being some team looking at going home to this. 他告诉球员：「跟我昨天的生气、愤怒和沮丧一样─今天是一样程度的骄傲。我们原本是 一支看起来像是准备打包的球队。」 “You guys dug yourself out. I’m not going to lie, I didn’t know that you’ d be able to dig your way out of it. Un-be-lievably proud of every one of you. 「我不骗你们，你们之前是挖洞给自己跳。我不知道你们有能力爬出来─我对你们每个人 都感到无比光荣。」 “You played a phenomenal game after the first inning. A phenomenal game, and you earned every ounce of that win. Incredibly proud of you guys! We got our path for us tomorrow, 8 a.m. game. What do you guys want to wear? Whites? OK, get ’em washed. Be here at 7, OK? Get your rest.’’ 「你们再第一局之後打了一场很棒的比赛─很棒。你们从这场胜利中学到了无限的东西， 我为你们感到无比的光荣！我们顺利的打进明天的比赛─早上八点。你们想穿什麽？白色 ？很好，打败他们。明天早上七点到场，好好休息吧。」 Then he wraps his big right arm around his daughter’s head, gives her a soft kiss on the forehead, and heads toward the Magic Kingdom, head high, a hero again. At least for a day. 接着Schilling用右手环抱女儿的头，亲亲的吻了额头後，再次昂首前往魔法王国─再次 成了英雄。至少这一天是的。 -- ＊Athletic frame. ＊High baseball IQ. Xander ＊Smooth, fluid swing. Bogaerts ＊Elite batspeed. #01 ＊Strong and explosive hands. ＊Above-average-to-better power ceiling, potential 30 home run bat. --

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