誰能夠翻譯一下,不過太長了翻譯有點誇張,看得懂的大致講一下再說什麼。
用翻譯軟體結果還是看有懂沒懂說...
07/27/2006 12:49 PM ET
Poise and humor carry Wang far
Young right-hander impressives, entertains teammates
By Ryan Mink / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- Chien-Ming Wang sat peacefully at his locker, flipping through a Lexus brochure while listening to his iPod. Nobody took notice and Wang certainly isn't one to stir up the clubhouse.
Yankees third-base coach Larry Bowa, on the other hand, likes to bark at players during walks from the bathroom to the coaches' room. His target that day was Wang, the quiet Taiwan native.
"What the [heck] did you do, Wang?" Bowa shouted, breaking the room's near silence. Bowa was insinuating that Wang had ditched his pregame routine despite seeing the pitcher's sweat-drenched back.
"Get outta here!"
Wang just stared up in confusion, pretending not to know what Bowa was saying. It's all part of his act and almost fooled Bowa.
"Every time I get on him, he pitches eight innings," Bowa explained to a somewhat bewildered Shawn Chacon.
It seems that added stress almost fuels Wang, who at the age of 26 has become one of the best young pitchers in baseball. But it's humor that has made him fit into the Yankees' clubhouse.
Wang returns the joke when the game starts. As the Yankees prepare for their first inning at the plate, Wang points to Bowa in the dugout and yells, "Out," signaling for him to get out and coach third base.
"The things that he says and the way he says them are just priceless," first baseman Andy Phillips said with a broad smile on his face.
Wang, a six-year United States resident, still speaks very broken English -- although his coaches say he knows more than he lets on. Wang said he requested a translator in the Minors, but "it never happened."
Now he doesn't want one. Wang enjoys soaking in the language.
He gets some English lessons from his apartment neighbors, but doesn't plan on taking any formal tutoring. Wang often spends his time memorizing funny one-liners to use with his teammates, but Bowa said they aren't fit to print.
Most of the time Wang sits silently facing his locker, as if he doesn't want to bother anybody.
"He doesn't really understand where he fits in this clubhouse yet," Bowa said. "But everybody looks at him in a different light. They look at him as a star, as a high-priced performer. And they count on him every time he pitches."
Whenever his teammates talk about him there are two things they mention -- Wang feels no pressure and has one killer sinker.
It's the first attribute that has made the second-year starter tailor-made to play in baseball's premier pressure-cooker.
"I'm sure there have been times, but I've never seen him get excited or upset about anything," Mike Mussina said with a laugh. "I don't know if that's the language barrier or just how he is. But being a pitcher, that's a good thing to have."
On June 18 at Washington, Wang took a one-run lead into the ninth inning, but allowed a walk-off homer to Ryan Zimmerman. It was the only time any of his coaches or teammates could remember seeing Wang show any emotion, as he threw his glove upon returning to the dugout.
The next day, pitching coach Ron Guidry joked with Wang, telling him that the next time he sent him out to finish off a complete game, he better do it. Guidry told Wang that if he didn't pitch well in his next start, they were going to fight the next day in the bullpen.