[ I'm ready ! 番外篇之 蒙面俠 Zorro ]

這個肖鬼仔殼一般稱為“鞋套”或“P革”，是為保護鞋頭而生，乃屬普羅選手配備﹝難怪問泥豆哥時，他居然一副渾然不知之姿態，果然級數有別﹞。週五晚買鞋時的隨口一問，想不到老闆娘真的就丟了一個過來﹝當然是一般品，專業全皮革的一隻可抵上一雙鞋﹞，週日晚拿去新興市場給皮鞋師父釘，右腳馬上昇級為“蒙面俠 Zorro”。有了“Zorro” & “金不讓護身符”的加持，林悲在球場上必將無往不利、所向披靡，而范特西的中興大業亦將不遠矣....

[ Does Anyone Still Doubt That Wang Is an Ace? ]

還有人懷疑阿民不是王牌嗎?
By Tyler Kepner

New York Times 專欄作家 Tyler Kepner 在阿民2安完投勝紅襪後寫了這篇文章.
(給它翻了一下)


Since Chien-Ming Wang lost twice in the division series last season, there's been a curious notion floating around among fans that he is not an ace. After Friday’s two-hitter in a 4-1 victory over the Red Sox, are there any doubters left?

自從王建民在去年首輪季後賽中吞下兩敗後, 球迷間就一直存在著王建民是否算得上王牌的爭論, 然而在週五2安打完投勝紅襪後, 還有人懷疑嗎?

When you mention pitchers like Johan Santana, Roy Halladay, Jake Peavy, Josh Beckett and C.C. Sabathia, you really ought to mention Wang. He is in their class.

當提到像 Johan Santana、Roy Halladay、Josh Beckett 和 C.C. Sabathia 這樣的投手時, 你不應該漏掉王建民, 他和他們同一個等級.

"If you think about it, why wouldn’t you?" Derek Jeter said. "He won almost 20 the last couple of years. People want to judge him on strikeouts. The bottom line is he gets people out."

Derek Jeter說: "如果你想過這個問題, 你不該忽略他?", "他過去兩年幾乎都拿了20勝, 人們認為他三振能力差. 但他總是能讓對手出局."

Since the start of the 2006 season, Wang is 41-13 with a 3.54 earned run average. No pitcher has as many victories. He has demonstrated a desire to diversify his repertory, to throw more sliders and four-seamers, and maybe a few changeups (though he threw none Friday).

從2006年球季起, 王建民交出了41勝13敗, 防禦率3.54 的成績, 沒有任何投手能拿下這麼多勝投, 他展現了使球路多樣化的企圖, 投更多的滑球和四縫線直球, 也投了少量的變速球 (儘管在週五比賽中並沒投變速球).

This is something Wang can do. Sal Fasano, who caught him in the minors, used to rave about how readily Wang mastered new pitches. Remember, Wang did not even throw a sinker when the Yankees signed him in 2000, and now his sinker is one of the best in baseball.

這就是王建民的能耐. 在小聯盟和王建民搭配過的捕手 Sal Fasano, 曾大力讚揚王建民能毫無困難的練就新球種, 別忘了, 2000年洋基簽下他時, 王建民甚至還不會投伸卡球, 而現在, 他是全聯盟最佳伸卡球投手之一.

"I feel very good when he goes out there, because you know he’s not going to beat himself," Manager Joe Girardi said. "He’s going to give guys an opportunity to make plays behind him, he’s going to locate, and he’s going to be down in the zone. He doesn’t walk people and he doesn’t usually have high pitch counts. You feel very comfortable."

總教練 Joe Girardi 說: "每當他上場時, 我感到相當放心, 因為你知道他不會被輕易打敗," "他讓隊友的守備來完成出局數, 他控球精準, 壓低球路, 他不保送對手, 而且他用球數一直很精簡, 看他投球讓人覺得舒服."

That is how teams are supposed to feel when a true ace starter takes the mound.

這就是真正的王牌在投手丘上時, 他的隊友會有的感受.

(轉載自 New York Times, 原文連結)


阿民是不是王牌?
相信台灣人如我一般從未懷疑, 就算洋基能買到山塔那也不會改變!

[ 賀 阿民開幕勝 ]

Yanks prevail in final Cathedral opener
Wang solid as farewell tour begins with victory over Jays


NEW YORK -- Eighty-five years after Babe Ruth christened Yankee Stadium with a home run, the Yankees kick-started the ballpark's glorious sendoff season with the creation of a new set of memories, posting a tight 3-2 victory over the Blue Jays.
With red, white and blue bunting dangling from all decks of the facility once lauded as a towering, triple-tiered wonder of the sporting world, Melky Cabrera homered and made two outstanding catches to earn a curtain call -- the Yankees' first in a season that promises to be rife with celebratory ovations.

In the sixth, facing Blue Jays starter Roy Halladay, Cabrera connected with a high, arcing shot toward the right-field corner, well ahead of Alex Rios' leap and destined to hammer off the concrete walkway to tie the game. Cabrera's right arm shot out toward the outfield wall as he raced around the bases, and he was later summoned out of the dugout to again acknowledge the crowd.

Cabrera had a long way to run in the third inning, dashing into the gap in right-center field to flag down Lyle Overbay's deep drive before thudding against the wall with a leap. One batter later, Cabrera was racing toward left-center field, stumbling ever so slightly before grabbing Aaron Hill's low liner, completing his acrobatics with a flourishing head-first skid across the wet outfield turf.

The Yankees took the lead in the seventh off Halladay when, with the bases loaded, Aaron Hill couldn't find a quick handle on Hideki Matsui's hot ground ball to second base. Hill flipped the ball to shortstop David Eckstein's bare hand to record a putout, but Alex Rodriguez crossed the plate with the go-ahead run on the fielder's choice.

Splintering bats often with his expanding repertoire, sinker-balling starter Chien-Ming Wang limited Toronto to two runs and six hits over seven innings -- a Marco Scutaro run-scoring fielder's choice in the second and Shannon Stewart's RBI groundout -- before yielding to phenom Joba Chamberlain for the eighth inning. Chamberlain allowed the tying run to get as close as second base before he recorded two strikeouts to end the frame, pumping his fist and screaming as 55,112 did the same.

30 years after the Yankees' memorable 1978 World Championship, the club's most prolific player of that era buzzed a strike across home plate to begin the sendoff -- and who better than Reggie Jackson, a man whose homer on Opening Day '78 prompted fans to shower the playing field with chocolate bars bearing his name.

There was sweetness for Rodriguez as well. In his first at-bat since signing a landmark contract that will keep him in New York for the next decade, the reigning American League MVP picked up right where he left off in 2007 by ripping a two-out double up the gap in right-center field, scoring Bobby Abreu.


The game was originally scheduled to be played as an Opening Day, and there had never been a game played in the building's confines during the month of March; Mother Nature's heavy rains on Monday saw that tradition, so prominent in the facility's history, would be upheld. The Yankees and Blue Jays played instead under the lights on Tuesday, an opening act to remember upon baseball's grandest stage.

Yankee Stadium originally opened on April 18, 1923, as Ruth clubbed a home run to defeat the rival Red Sox, 4-1, earning the facility the nickname 'The House that Ruth Built.' The stadium underwent dramatic reconstruction after the 1973 season and reopened on April 15, 1976, as the current facility, with the Yankees defeating the Twins, 11-4.

Since its opening, the Yankees have won 29 of their 39 season openers at Yankee Stadium, including 11 straight home openers since the 1998 campaign.


轉載自MLB官網

[ 金不讓護身符 ]

今天收到了 NIKE 寄來的金不讓限量護身符, 拆開後捧在手心, 看著它呆呆的傻笑了近10分鐘, 雙手因激動-而顫抖不停; 回過神, 第一時間衝到便所, 將它小心翼翼地佩帶在我的"改邊", 著裝完畢步出便所, 吸一口沒屎味的新鮮空氣, 感覺自己如綠巨人般的瞬間變高變壯, 無所畏, 無所懼.. 從此刻起我知道, 有了金不讓護身符的陪伴, 棒球路上的我不再孤單, 每一步都將走的更加堅定, 抬頭挺胸, 昂首闊步, 無怨無悔....


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[ 賀 本格獲阿民加持 ]

今天收到來自NIKE振奮人心的好消息,

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Cow! 才選10格ㄟ.. 真崇拜我自己, 果真是"人在做, 阿民在看"....
只能對評審&阿民說: 您真內行!!

[ 洋基季後賽止步 ]

9-OCT-07 ~首輪季後賽2度先發~
麥貢啊.. 連我都覺得我可以打到阿民的球耶.... #@$@Y%$#!*&^%$#

[ 沉默的王牌 ]

自從年初 Sam Borden、Mark Feinsand、Peter Abraham, 3位大聯盟記者及專欄作家出了一本 ACE IN AMERICA 的水桶民故事書 (光看英文書名實在不知與"沉默"2字有何關聯..), "沉默的王牌" 這5個字就和咱家水桶民劃上了等號, 直到今年球季末阿民再度用實力證明自己是貨真價實的"王牌", 這個話題又再度被炒翻天....

昨天在手機上讀了一篇文 沉默的SBL 像失蹤人口, 寫的真不錯, 也舉了"龍哥"這個具有絕對說服力的實例, 但內容闡述的"王牌不該沉默", 不太認同.. 雖然連洋基投手教練 Ron Guidry 也不止一次對媒體向阿民提出相同論點, 且依邏輯上來說並無大問題 (王牌不沉默, 沉默非王牌, 非對等條件; 如我愛美女, 美女不一定非我不愛一般), 但硬要把愛不愛放話扯進來.... 製造些話題吧! 我想..

林悲覺得, 王牌的必要條件 = 實力 + 戰績, 缺一不可, 至於沉默不沉默, 嗯.. 有啥關係嗎? 能不能舉個只靠張大嘴就能成王牌的例子來說服我啊? 果真如此, 小弟自認離"王牌"亦不遠矣, 且林悲的嘴不止大, 還又臭又賤..

是"魄力"來的!! 那種扛下全隊勝敗, 義無反顧帶領球隊迎向挑戰的意志, 乃小弟認為王牌何以為王牌的更深一層表徵, 一如 2004 的血襪佬 Curt Schilling 帶傷引領紅襪登頂拿下世界大賽冠軍, 那種悲壯的場景, 相信許多球迷至今仍津津樂道(小弟強烈懷疑血襪乃香港腳摳破皮造成, 而染血位置高至腳踝, 可見此君病症已達末期, 感染範圍擴散至無法控制.. 純喇賽!); 至於阿民, 雖也不止一次目睹他遭強襲球親吻, 仍忍痛在場上苦撐, 但總覺得還不夠"悲", 這樣吧! 開始培養香港腳.. 一切順利, 明年即可為自己"血"下一頁傳奇!

衷心的期盼, 阿民繼續沉默, 這才是屬於他的獨特 Style, 何樂而不"維"呢?

洋基球場球員休息區, 一如以往, 阿民惦惦地坐在水桶旁, 眼神透露出強烈的求勝慾望, 沒人敢打擾他.. 這是我想看到的王建民, 紐約洋基隊的王牌投手!!


(圖片取自"沉默的王牌"一書封面)

[ 關於"王建民"一則插播 ]

早上 Google 水桶民時意外發現此則新聞 >> 明報/解放軍再有高級將領調動, 65歲的成都軍區司令王建民上將因屆齡退役, 上周被免職, 由58歲的軍區副司令李世明中將接任.

看來"王建民"真是橫跨兩岸的好名字, 不姓王, 不然以後如有小孩不管男女都叫"王建民"la !!

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卸任成都軍區司令員-王建民, 生于1942年11月, 長期在東北沈陽軍區服役, 從沈陽軍區參謀長升任副司令後, 02年10月再調成都軍區升任司令, 去年6月24日晉升上將軍銜.