[新聞] Scott Richmond takes unique path

[Klan (天才小釣手)]

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這是在WBC前關於力猛的一篇專欄

裡面有提到他過去的棒球經歷

以及幫加拿大東征西討的過去

和他這幾年來跟美洲棒球強權交手與加拿大世代交替的心得

因為英文很爛所以只翻個人感興趣的地方

歡迎高手不吝指正或補遺

Canada's Richmond takes road less traveled to WBC '17

Former Blue Jays righty thrilled for tournament after bouncing around globe

    In 1997, Scott Richmond graduated from Aldergrove Community Secondary
School near Vancouver, British Columbia, and took a job working on the
docks at the Port of Vancouver. For three years, he arrived in the early
morning dark, left around 4 p.m. and played baseball when he could.

    In 2008, after an odyssey through three American colleges and
Canadian non-affiliated baseball, Richmond made his Major League debut
with the Toronto Blue Jays, his country's team. The right-hander began
the following season in the Blue Jays' rotation and had a 3.69 ERA at the
All-Star break. And even though his performance slipped in the second
half, due in part to a sore arm, he earned a full year of big league pay.

    In 2015, having barely pitched for the Triple-A Round Rock Express the
previous summer, Richmond was at his new home in Gilbert, Ariz., looking
for jobs in real estate. Instead, he returned to indy baseball -- this time,
with the Wichita (Kan.) Wingnuts -- because the Pan American Games were in
Toronto and Richmond wanted to end his career by pitching for his country.

    The plan worked. Well, partially. Richmond pitched in the Pan Ams.
In fact, he helped Team Canada win gold on home soil. The part about retirement?
He's still working on that.

    This month, nearly 20 years after he went to work on the docks, Richmond
is poised to pitch in the World Baseball Classic for the first time.

   "It's emotional to talk about it," Richmond said. "You don't quite realize
what you've done while you're still doing it. In baseball, you have to focus
on the now.

   "It has been fun. I've been really fortunate. Maybe in the offseason,
I'll sit back and reflect on it. Right now, it's just been so busy."

    Busy -- in the transoceanic sense. Richmond, 37, won't go home to Arizona
when the Classic is over. He's flying across the Pacific to rejoin his club
team, the Fubon Guardians of the Chinese Professional Baseball League, for
the regular season.

     That's right: Richmond, who last appeared in the Majors on July 1, 2012,
pitched well enough during his unintentional 2015 season -- which included the
World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) Premier 12 in Taiwan -- that he
drew the attention of international scouts.

      37歲的力猛在經典賽後將不會回到亞利桑那，而是飛過太平洋和他的球隊富邦悍將
會合，為下一個球季打拼。這是因為，儘管上次在大聯盟出賽是2012年的事，2015球季跟
12強比賽中的好表現讓他得到了國際球探的注意。

    The Guardians are based in New Taipei City, Taiwan, where Richmond will
live with his wife, Deanna, and their three daughters: Hailey and Sierra, who
are 4-year-old twins; and Juliet, who turns 2 later this month.

    In fact, the Richmonds are beginning their second season in New Taipei City.
Scott pitched there last year, too, when the team -- known as the EDA Rhinos,
prior to an ownership and name change -- won the four-team CPBL.

    富邦悍將位於台灣的新北市，力猛將會與他的妻子狄安娜和三個小孩:四歲的雙胞胎姊
妹:海莉跟席薇拉，以及這個月就會滿二歲的茱麗葉住在一起。這是他在這裡的第二個球季
，去年在這支球隊還叫做義大犀牛時力猛也幫助拿下了總冠軍。

   "It's great," Richmond said from Taiwan, before one of the Guardians' spring
workouts. "Public transit makes it really easy to get around with the subway
system. There's a bullet train that takes you top to bottom [on the island]
in 90 minutes, so my family can come on the road if they want to.

    "Night markets are a big thing here, and that's a really fun event for
families.If you're walking around with twin North American girls, they're
going to have attention drawn to them. My kids are a little shy, but they're
getting better about it. They love getting the tea that's popular with kids
here. There's always something new to do, a different life experience.

    "It's really the perfect time to do this, since they're not quite in school
yet. And my wife's a big traveler, so she's loved living in Asia."

     Plus, there are the added educational benefits. Hailey and Sierra can
count to 10 in Mandarin, and the entire family has learned a term they hear,
perpetually and endearingly, from elderly passersby: Shuangbaotai, which
means twins.

    "很棒"人在台灣跟悍將春訓的力猛這麼說"像是捷運這類的大眾運輸系統要到處趴趴
走很容易，而且搭高鐵也只需要90分鐘就可以讓你從北跑到南，所以我老婆小孩出門不用
擔心""這裡的夜市值得一提，因為很適合闔家出遊。如果你身邊帶著雙胞胎洋蘿莉，很難
不被路人注意。我女兒一開始有點怕生，但現在也漸漸習慣了。她們蠻喜歡一種很受當地
小孩歡迎的茶飲。對還沒上學的她們來說，這是很棒的生活體驗。我老婆也是愛旅行的人
，所以她很喜歡在亞洲的生活。" 海莉跟席薇拉已經學會用國語數到十，而且全家人也從
無數次路過的老人熱忱的語氣中學會了另一個中文詞:雙胞胎，意思是孿生子。

     Richmond's peripatetic career has yet to include an appearance in
baseball's pre-eminent international event. He was pitching for the
non-affiliated Edmonton Cracker-Cats and unknown to many Canadian baseball
officials in 2006, when the first World Baseball Classic occurred. Richmond was
on the roster and ready to start against Venezuela in 2009, until Italy
eliminated Canada with a stunning upset. And he suffered a freak knee injury
during a fielding drill with the Korean Baseball Organization's Lotte Giants
prior to the 2013 Classic, leading to his release and an ongoing lawsuit over
unpaid salary.

      Now Richmond is a candidate to start for the underdog Canadians in a
perilous Pool C that includes Colombia, the Dominican Republic and the United
States.

     "Over the last 10 years, we've won gold medals with our senior men's team
[at the last two Pan Am Games], but we've never moved on in the WBC," Richmond
said. "We always pull tough pools. But the one thing we like to do is carve a
path for Canadian baseball players who aren't superstars. I'm not a guy who was
highly recruited. No one even knew my name. And I was able to make it to the
big leagues.

     "Baseball is still getting better in Canada. It's not always easy for us
to get on good travel teams and improve by playing against the top competition.
But we all play together a lot. Team USA will have 20 new guys at every WBC.
With us, it's the same old indy ball guys with the new young studs. "We're
listening to The Tragically Hip on the bus and signing 'O Canada.' We're
teaching the young guys the way we do things. Hopefully when we're out of the
game, these kids will be ready to take over and we'll keep climbing the
international ladder."

     Richmond's personal ascent is worth emulating, as well -- two decades
after those 6 a.m. arrivals to the Port of Vancouver."I don't think I've
even said those words before: 'Twenty years since high school,'" Richmond said,
a little disbelief in his voice. "I've been really fortunate to be able to play
this long. It's been a big dream of mine to have my kids watch me play and have
an appreciation of my lifetime passion.

     "They came onto the field after we won the [CPBL] championship
last year and sprayed waters and soda with everyone. They're terrified of
mascots, so they had their heads on a swivel the whole time. But now they know
where dad stands on the baseball field, and that's really important to me."


剩下的看有沒有大大願意接手QQ
破英文不敢獻醜太多

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