大学は違うが同期の田渕と山本には言いたくても言えない。
http://www.zakzak.co.jp/sports/baseball/news/20130318/bbl1303181903008-n1.htm
田渕と山本は法政大学、星野は明治大学。
１９６８年のドラフト会議で、巨人は星野を蹴って、島野を指名したので有名。
１位 東映 大橋譲（亜細亜大学） 東映４位金田留広
２位 広島 山本浩二（法大） 広島２位水沼四郎、６位稲葉光雄
３位 阪神 田渕幸一（法大）
４位 南海 富田勝（法大）
５位 サンケイ 藤原
６位 東京 有藤通世（近大）
７位 近鉄 水谷
８位 巨人 島野（武相高）
９位 大洋 野村
１０位 中日 星野仙一（明大） 中日３位大島康徳、９位島谷金二
１１位 阪急 山田久志 阪急２位加藤秀司、７位福本豊、１２位門田博光（入団拒否）
１２位 西鉄 東尾修（箕島高）
豊作の年だった。
黒田には今年も１５勝以上期待。
ニューヨーク・タイムズはすぐに見られなくなるので、ハードコピーが必要。
TAMPA, Fla. — An unlikely friendship was forged in front of Hiroki Kuroda’s locker Thursday morning when the quiet and clean-cut Kuroda invited the gregarious and tattooed David Wells to pull up a chair.
Wells, a spring training instructor for the Yankees, was already speaking with Kuroda’s neighbor, Andy Pettitte. When he saw Kuroda approaching, he moved to get out of the way, but Kuroda asked him to stay and visit.
They began by speaking in rudimentary English, but Kuroda’s interpreter soon came over to facilitate the discussion between the baseball odd couple. One is right-handed, the other left-handed. One is known for his quiet professionalism and rigorous conditioning, the other for making bawdy jokes and pitching with a generous physique.
But both have had solid pitching careers and share a passion for baseball.
The conversation began with the right-handed Kuroda asking the left-handed Wells about his age, and from there it evolved into a general conversation about pitching philosophy and technique.
“David Wells was a great pitcher,” Kuroda said through his interpreter, “and I wanted to know how old he was when he stopped pitching.”
It seems to be a main topic on the 38-year-old Kuroda’s mind as he enters what could be his final season in the majors. Then again, if he follows Wells’s path, it will be far from his last. Wells pitched until he was 44, spending 21 years in the major leagues.
“He was in awe because of the age factor,” Wells said of Kuroda. “I said, ‘You’ve got six or seven more years; you’ll be just fine.’ He said, ‘Noooo.’ But I told him he can do it. I told him, ‘Let them rip the jersey off your back.’ ”
Kuroda asked if that had happened to Wells. He admitted that it had, saying he was forced to retire after the 2007 season when no team would make even the minimum offer to him. “I couldn’t even get a minor league invite for 2008,” Wells said. “I wanted to play because I still had the desire.”
Kuroda shares that desire, at least for now. The Yankees re-signed Kuroda in the off-season to a one-year, $15 million deal, and he said he had not made up his mind about when to stop pitching or if he would return to Japan to pitch in 2014. There has been speculation that Kuroda will finish his pro career where it began, with the Hiroshima Carp of Japan’s Central League.
“It all depends on how I perform this year,” he said. “That will determine what I do next year.”
If Kuroda is curious about ways to prolong his career, he has some compelling examples at his disposal, like the 43-year-old Mariano Rivera and Pettitte, who will turn 41 before the All-Star break. Kuroda spoke with them last year about their longevity and their desire to keep pitching.
Wells followed a far different path, with a hard-living lifestyle that reached such heights, he said, that he pitched his 1998 perfect game “half drunk.”
In his playing days, Wells tended to stomp his way through the clubhouse, engaging with everyone he saw, whereas Kuroda often sits quietly at his locker. Wells noted that the language barrier and cultural differences might account for much of the seeming polarity between them.
“They are a little more proper than we are,” Wells said of Japanese players. “Americans are a little more outspoken. Well, not all of them are. The good majority of us are. We wear our emotions on the sleeve a lot more than other countries.”
Kuroda and Wells never overlapped in the majors. In a sense, Kuroda actually replaced Wells with the Los Angeles Dodgers: Wells spent his last few weeks as a major leaguer in Dodger blue, going 4-1 with a 5.12 earned run average in seven starts in 2007. Wells was released after the season, and a few months later, Kuroda arrived.
In five seasons — four with the Dodgers and one with the Yankees — Kuroda has compiled a 57-57 record with an impressive 3.42 E.R.A. Last year, he won a career-high 16 games, against 11 losses, and compiled a 3.32 E.R.A. in his first year in the American League East.
Wells was one of many who were impressed.
“The last four years he was probably one of the most underrated pitchers in the game,” Wells said. “I told him that’s a good thing. I said being underrated like that and not having all that pressure and all the focus on you is good. You’re going out, doing your job and winning 15 games a year. That’s beautiful.
“I hated when they started talking about me like that. In 2000, I had 15 wins at the All-Star break, and they were all comparing me to Denny McLain.”
And therein lies one more difference between Wells and Kuroda. Few would ever compare Kuroda to the talented, brash and trouble-plagued McLain.
１日に２試合が多く、体力勝負でもある。
http://www.wwcc2013.curlingevents.com/livescores
１位 ５勝０敗 スウェーデン
２位 ４勝１敗 スコットランド
３位 ３勝２敗 日本、他５チーム
９位 ２勝３敗 イタリア
１０位 １勝４敗 デンマーク
１１位 ０勝５敗 ラトビア、中国
日本チーム（＝中部電力）の成績
第１戦 ●６－７ ○スイス
スイ １０２ ０１０ ０１０ ２ ７
日本 ０１０ ２０２ ００１ ０ ６
第２戦 ○６－４ ●デンマーク
日本 ００１ ００２ ００２ １ ６
デン ０１０ ０１０ １１０ ０ ４
第３戦 ○１１ー８ ●ラトビア
日本 １３０ １１０ ２０１ ２ １１
ラト ００２ ００４ ０２０ ０ ８
第４戦 ○６ー４ ●ドイツ （延長１１回）
ドイ ０００ ０１２ ０００ １０ ４
日本 １０１ ０００ ０２０ ０２ ６
第５戦 ●３－８ ○スコットランド（７回コールド負け）
スコ ２０４ ０１０ ０１× × ８
日本 ０１０ １０１ ００× × ３
９回でなく、１０回までがルール。 ２位のスコットランドには完敗。
野村、落合の方が手腕はあるが、今の日本野球機構では手に負えない。
http://www.sanspo.com/baseball/news/20130319/npb13031905050001-n1.html
但し、実績が伴わなければ首になるのは、どこの分野でも同じ。
バーランダーの９４マイルの速球をモロに受けた。
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/extra-mustard/photos/7001/ouch-through-the-years/
アメリカで、隣に座っていても気がつかない。 そういう場面はありえないが。
１４． クーリック （安藤優子＋小宮悦子＋ ）
１５． ロバート・デ・ニーロ
３５． 映画で見たことがある
４０． トム・ハンクス （おっさんなので、似てる人にしか見えない）
４４． マイケル・Ｊ・フォックス （名前で気付く、写真ではわからない）
５５． デオナルド・ディカプリオ
６２． ジャック・ニコルソン （ファンだが、これではわからない）
６７． フィービー・ケイツ （写真では面影すらない）
８１． ジーター
９３． サインフェルド （レンタル店では見れない）
１０９． リチャード・ギア
１２２． エディ・マーフィー
ジーターだけはすぐわかりそうだ。
タイガー・ウッズの浮気は大丈夫か。
１． タイガー・ウッズ ＆ Linsey Vonn
１２． コマネチ ＆ Bart Conner
１４． ガルシアパーア ＆ Mia Hamm
１５． グラフ ＆ アガシ
１６． クリスティ山口 ＆ Bret Hedican
１９． メアリー・デッカー ＆ Richard Slaney
２０. ナンシー・ロペス & Ray Knight
珍しく、知っている人が多い。
是非サイヤング賞を取ってもらい、このブログ名を変更したい。
http://mlb.si.com/2013/03/13/booms-and-busts-starting-pitchers/?sct=uk_t11_a6
次は、青木が首位打者を取るまで、にしようか。
羽生が無冠になるまで。（それまで生きておれるかが心配）
