[今日] 吃禁藥為證明身價　派卓亞批：A- … - 美國職棒

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/dustin_pedroia/

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/dustin_pedroia/page7

這篇文章原文很長

還有提到 Pedroia 高中有整球季沒被三振的紀錄

有興趣可以看看

擷取 Pedroia also calls Alex Rodriguez a dork. 這段

Dork 在美國人道底是指啥阿？

我一開始想歪了嗎XD


It is early afternoon now, which, in the languid nature of the first week of
spring training, means it has been a long day for the Sox. A warm sun arcs
over Florida's Gulf Coast. Pedroia is talking once again about A-Rod. His
subject now is last year's All-Star Game, where Pedroia and teammate Kevin
Youkilis made up the right side of the infield, while Rodriguez and Yankees
idol Derek Jeter constituted the left. Tomorrow, perhaps leery of feeding a
rivalry whose coverage in the tabloid press alone accounts for the
destruction of several spotted owl habitats, Pedroia will ask that his
comments about A-Rod be stricken from the record. ("That guy," he will say,
pausing for a moment to find the right word, "is a dork.") But at this
moment, here in the shade of the clubhouse, he is expansive.

"He was the man. He's always been the man, everywhere he's been," Pedroia
says. "Me and Youk want to be the man, but we've never been looked at like
that." Pedroia's tone is emphatic now, and for a moment you forget that he
and Youkilis were well enough regarded to finish first and third in last
year's MVP voting. But listen to him now, making tiny mental adjustments,
positioning himself (just a step one way or the other) so that he still has
something to prove, so that he remains the perpetual underdog.

"So that drives us," he continues, now thumping the table, "to be even better"
—THUMP—"and better—THUMP—"to prove to everybody we're just as good as
they are. You know what I mean? How come people don't think like that?



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