http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/the-lighter-side-of-aj-burnett/ The Lighter Side of A.J. Burnett AJ的另一面...... A.J. Burnett has shown his mischievous side lately, slamming whipped-cream pies into the faces of Melky Cabrera, Alex Rodriguez and Johnny Damon after their game-ending hits last weekend. But close observers of games at Yankee Stadium have seen that side of Burnett. For years, the highlight of the nightly blooper reel at Yankee Stadium was a clip from Sept. 7, 2001, when Burnett was a Florida Marlin. Warming up between innings of a game against the Mets, Burnett fired a fastball through the window of a moving van behind the plate. The Yankees would show it once, then put the word “Wow!” on the screen, then show it again. The crowd roared every time. It was unmistakably the crowd’s favorite blooper, even more popular than Tommy Lasorda’s famous All-Star Game somersault. Now that Burnett is a Yankee, though, the clip has been retired. “I told them to put it back up,” Burnett said. “I want to see it again.” Burnett is serious on his workdays, and he learned the value of preparation between starts from his former teammate Roy Halladay in Toronto. But he also knows how to have fun, and if he is not quite a clubhouse leader, he is close. “I’m definitely not a follower,” Burnett said. “This is our job. This is what we do. If you’re not having fun here, you shouldn’t be here. Obviously the last few days, when we’re winning, it’s a lot of fun.” Burnett, who signed for five years and $82.5 million, said he has not changed his personality just because he changed teams. He has adapted easily to the Yankees’ clubhouse, and though his pie-in-the-face routine might make him a target for payback, he has only been victimized once in his career. “Matt Stairs got me in Toronto with the Gatorade cooler,” Burnett said. “I was doing an on-field interview. I got orange Gatorade all over me.” As for that infamous blooper from 2001, Burnett admitted he was sick of seeing the van, which carried the mascot Billy The Marlin, circling the field while he warmed up. It caused a delay of several minutes for the glass to be picked up. “I was young and stupid,” Burnett said, before smiling and reverting to his official explanation at the time. “But it slipped.” XD -- 宇宙裡的微小塵埃 http://www.wretch.cc/blog/AllyDai --

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