魩仔魚

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魩仔魚 可長到15公分


魩仔魚是迷你魚，剛孵化時不到一公分，一般發育到五公分左右就不長了，但若有機會繼續發育，逃過人類捕撈，也有長到十五公分的紀錄。因此，民間認為魩仔魚是「長不大的魚」的說法，是不正確的。

魩仔魚是民間俗名，是「群數集合」名稱，不是單一魚種。在動物分類上，魩仔魚分為鯷科、鯡科兩大類，再細分有不同的屬、種。台灣常見的魩仔魚群至少包含一百多種特徵相近卻不完全相同的迷你魚，有時也會混入其他魚種。

魩仔魚在食物鏈的位階是「低能階」魚，應是鯖魚和鰹魚等的主食，沒想到人類跳過吃大魚的階段，直接吃牠們，讓靠牠們維生的魚兒面臨「斷炊」命運。

愛在近海釣魚的民眾都會發現，當專門捕撈魩仔魚的漁船出現時，附近海域絕對釣不到魚，因為魚網太密，擋住海水形成阻力，大魚察覺海流出現異狀的警訊，當然就躲得遠遠的。

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Wang rescues Yanks again

New York Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang delivers a pitch in the first inning against the Texas Rangers, Wednesday, May 17, 2006, at Yankee Stadium in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

W4-1 IP8.0 6H 3R 2ER 1BB 3SO 1HR ERA 3.79

Wang rescues Yanks again

Right-hander gives 'pen a breather with eight strong frames

By Mark Feinsand / MLB.com

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EW YORK -- In each of Chien-Ming Wang's last two starts, he has pitched one night after the Yankees had endured grueling four-hour games.

Last Friday, Wang responded with eight shutout innings against the A's. Wednesday, he didn't hold the Rangers off the scoreboard, but his eight solid innings were enough to lead the Yankees to a 4-3 win over Texas.

Wang (4-1) overcame three Yankees errors to hold the Rangers to three runs (two earned) on six hits, winning his third straight start.

"He's feeling pretty good about himself right now," said manager Joe Torre. "We could have helped him, defensively, a bit more than we did tonight, but we got through it."

Jorge Posada, whose walk-off homer on Tuesday lifted the Yankees to the biggest comeback in team history, continued his torrid streak at the plate, going 2-for-2 with two RBIs. Posada is 11-for-25 on the current homestand, a .444 average.

"I feel comfortable, like I'm doing a lot of good things," Posada said. "I'm staying behind the ball and getting the big hit. Hopefully I can continue that the whole year."

"He had some great at-bats tonight," Torre said. "We needed everything we could get."

With Boston's loss to Baltimore, the Yankees (23-15) are now in a first-place tie with the Red Sox in the American League East.

New York used a two-out rally in the fifth inning to snap a 1-1 tie, as Posada, Robinson Cano and Bernie Williams each had RBI singles, giving the Yanks a three-run lead.

Mariano Rivera, who allowed the go-ahead run in the ninth inning on Tuesday, setting up Posada's dramatic homer, held on to a one-run lead on Wednesday to earn his eighth save.

"I wanted to get Mo in there after last night," Torre said. "He seemed to be a little sharper tonight with location. He didn't have any breathing room; it was vintage Mo."

Wang looked sharp early, but the Yankees' defense didn't do much to help its starter out. Andy Phillips committed an error in the first, coming off the bag to take a throw from Alex Rodriguez, but Wang got through the inning without allowing a run.

Two innings later, Cano made the first of his two errors, receiving a potential double-play relay from A-Rod away from second base. Phil Nevin was safe at second on the play, and he went on to score on the next play, an RBI single by Kevin Mench.

Wang pounded the strike zone with sinkers and sliders, getting one ground ball after another. Cano committed another error in the sixth, but Wang erased the baserunner with a double play. Wang induced another twin-killing in the sixth, making up for a Mark Teixeira single.

"It didn't seem to bother him, because we got a double play," Torre said of Wang. "We understand that we're going to be busy in the infield when he has his game going. He's fun to watch pitch for our side, because we get a lot of quick innings."

"He doesn't get rattled by the things that are happening behind him," Posada said. "He just keeps coming. He seemed to get more comfortable as the game went along."

Texas starter Kameron Loe (2-4) got out of jams in the second and third, but he couldn't do the same in the fifth, as the Yankees put together five consecutive two-out hits to break the game open.

Wang retired the side in order in the seventh, but after retiring the first hitter in the eighth, he gave up a double to Gerald Laird and a two-run homer to Gary Matthews, pulling Texas within a run.

Cano helped Wang make it through the frame, making a nice play on a hard grounder hit by Michael Young for the second out.

"I never put my head down," Cano said. "You're going to make some mistakes, but sometimes, you'll make the right play. I made the right play at the right time."

"When he needed to make a play in the eighth inning, he made one," Torre said. "The kid is tough, but sometimes his mind wanders when he doesn't get a couple of hits."

Rivera closed it out with a scoreless ninth, throwing a perfect inning against the middle of the Rangers' lineup.

"I wanted to be in there," Rivera said. "These are the situations I always pitch in, so I expected it. I expected a good outing."

So did the Yankees. And they got one.

Mark Feinsand is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

Maddux improves to 4-0 as Cubs dominate Cardinals

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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Greg Maddux is turning back the clock for a team missing its offensive star and two of its best pitchers.

The four-time NL Cy Young Award winner, who turned 40 earlier this month, threw seven scoreless innings on Sunday to help the Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals 7-3. He has won his first four starts for the first time in his career, to go with a miniscule 0.99 ERA.

Maddux's big start is helping rescue a team that doesn't have Derrek Lee, Mark Prior or Kerry Wood.

"It's just amazing what he does because he's not throwing 94, 93 mph," outfielder Juan Pierre said. "You watch Greg Maddux, that's an art."

Maddux (4-0) held the Cardinals to five hits and also singled and scored, helping the Cubs avert a three-game sweep and win for the first time in three games since losing Lee for at least two months with a broken wrist. This is the first 4-0 start for Maddux since 2000 with the Braves when he needed six starts, and it's his first four-game winning streak since July 17-Aug. 7, 2004.

All month, Maddux has insisted that he's doing nothing different and not trying to fill the void.

"I wish I could explain it," Maddux said. "Personally, I'm just getting ready to pitch like I always have, I'm just catching a lot of breaks.

"Sometimes you catch a few breaks in this game, and right now I am," he said.

Jacque Jones hit his second homer, and second against the Cardinals, leading off the fourth against Jason Marquis (3-1).

Aramis Ramirez, who entered the game in a 3-for-18 slump, hit a two-run shot into the visitor's bullpen beyond the left-field wall in the fifth.

Todd Walker batted in Lee's third slot for the third straight game and had two hits and three RBI to raise his average to .408 for the Cubs, who completed a 5-4 road trip.

"It's nice to get a win without Derrek," Walker said. "We can start believing we can do it."

Albert Pujols, who had six RBI the first two games of the series and entered with the major-league lead in homers (11) and RBI (26), was 0-for-4.

Maddux, the only 40-plus right-handed starter in the major leagues, struck out four and his only walk came to the first batter he faced, David Eckstein. He threw a season-high 93 pitches and lowered his ERA 34 points, mastering the Cardinals for the second time.

"He's not coming with heat; he's never coming with heat," manager Tony La Russa said. "He's coming with a lot of intelligence and a great feel for pitching."

In two starts against the Cardinals, he's 2-0 and has given up one run on nine hits in 13 1/3 innings. Since turning 40 on April 14, he's surrendered one run on eight hits in 15 innings.

Marquis struggled for the first time in four starts this season while facing Maddux, his old mentor from the Braves. He left after the first three batters reached in the seventh, one on his fielding error on Pierre's sacrifice bunt and gave up seven runs -- four earned -- and seven hits.

"I don't know if I struggled all day. I just got away from my game plan and left a few pitches up in the zone," Marquis said. "Some days the mistakes are going be hit out and some days you get away with them."

All four of Marquis' career starts against the Cubs have come against Maddux. He's 1-2 with a 3.90 ERA.

Pierre doubled to lead off the third, advanced on a sacrifice and scored on Walker's infield hit to give the Cubs the lead and Jones' homer in the fourth made it 2-0.

Pierre reached on second baseman Aaron Miles' fielding error on a routine grounder to start the fifth, leading to Ramirez's homer and a pair of unearned runs that put Chicago ahead 4-0.

The Cubs extended the lead to 7-0 in the seventh on Ronny Cedeno's RBI double and Walker's two-run single.

St. Louis got a run in the eighth on Hector Luna's RBI double off Roberto Novoa.

Gary Bennett's two-run double in the ninth ended Ryan Dempster's run of 32 consecutive appearances without allowing an earned run. Dempster, who has converted 23 straight saves, last gave up an earned run on Aug. 12, 2005, at home against the Cardinals in a streak that lasted 31 1/3 innings.

Game notes
Cardinals reliever Brad Thompson had to make a quick jump to his side to avoid getting hit by a bat when Michael Barrett lost his grip while striking out in the seventh. ... The Cardinals haven't swept the Cubs at home since 2002. ... The Cardinals have sold out all nine games at new Busch Stadium, including paid attendance of 41,373 on Sunday.


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Aramis Ramirez hit a two-run homer, Jacque Jones added a solo shot and Todd Walker drove in three runs to back Maddux (4-0), who gave most of the bullpen a much-needed day off and stopped a two-game losing streak.

"He's been awesome all year, and today we really needed a stopper," Walker said.

"He gave us the innings, he gave us the quality, he gave us a hit to start a rally, gave us baserunning -- he gave us anything you could get from a position player and a pitcher," Cubs manager Dusty Baker said. "We needed it badly."

This is the first time in his career that Maddux has won each of his first four starts. Not bad for a pitcher who turned 40 on April 14. He opened the 2000 season 4-0 with Atlanta, but achieved that record after six starts. He downplayed the feat.

"We've been scoring a lot of runs, too, so that helps," Maddux said. "Guys swung the bats well. Ramy got the big hit and put us ahead. Defense and runs goes a long way."

On Sunday, the Cubs right-hander struck out four and gave up one walk and five hits -- including three by Scott Rolen -- over seven scoreless innings. The four-time Cy Young winner appears to be turning back the clock. His lowest ERA in a single season was 1.56 in 1994 with Atlanta. Is he a better pitcher now?

"I wish I could explain it," Maddux said of tapping into the fountain of youth. "Personally, I"m just getting ready to pitch like I always have and catching a lot of breaks."

Like having one of Rolen's doubles hit the top of the center-field fence and not go over.

"Sometimes you catch a lot of breaks in this game, and right now I think I am," Maddux said.

"It was vintage Maddux," catcher Michael Barrett said. "He's been able to locate the ball really well early in the count. He's getting the ball down and away. Late in the count, he's keeping guys off balance by mixing his pitches. You can't say much more than vintage Maddux. He did today what he's been doing the last couple starts -- not trying to do too much."

Cardinals starter Jason Marquis (3-1) has seen Maddux's magic act before. The two were teammates in Atlanta, and this is the fourth time they've gone head-to-head.

"The guy is a special player," Marquis said. "He knows what he's doing out there. He's been baffling hitters for a long time, so it's not surprising to see what he's doing."

The good news is the Cubs now know they can win without Derrek Lee.

"We need all the help we can get since we lost our big guy," Walker said. "It was nice to get a win without Derrek. You start believing you can do it."

They still miss Lee, who will see his teammates Monday at Wrigley Field for the first time since he was hurt last week.

"It's tough losing D-Lee because he's such a good person, let alone a good player," Maddux said. "When you play with 24 other guys, some guys are really easy to root for and some you could care less. I think D-Lee is one of those guys who is really easy to root for."

Juan Pierre doubled to open the Cubs' third against Marquis, advanced on Ronny Cedeno's sacrifice and scored on Walker's infield single.

Jones, who entered the game batting .194, made it 2-0 with a leadoff homer in the fourth, his second of the year. In the Chicago fifth, Pierre reached on a fielding error by second baseman David Eckstein and two outs later, Ramirez belted his third homer to go ahead, 4-0. Ramirez also had been scuffling and came into the game batting .189.

"Aramis has been flirting with that fence for awhile," Baker said. "I'm just glad he caught one."

Maddux helped himself in the seventh when he singled, advanced on a wild pitch and on a sacrifice by Pierre before scoring on Cedeno's double. Marquis was pulled, and Walker greeted Brad Thompson with a two-run single. The three RBIs raised Walker's career total to 500.

"A few days ago, I got triple digits in homers," Walker said. "You look back in your career, it's stuff you'll remember."

Pinch-hitter Hector Luna hit an RBI double in the Cardinals' eighth off Roberto Novoa, and Gary Bennett hit a two-run double off Ryan Dempster in the ninth.

Maddux is the only Cubs starter who has pitched into the seventh inning this season.

"It says a lot for experience," Baker said. "He's not doing any more than what his Hall of Fame career has indicated."

This is the last year of the pitcher's contract with the Cubs. Would he like to talk about an extension?

"Let's just play," Maddux said. "It's not the time for that right now. The Cubs have a lot more problems than worrying about me right now. Let's take care of what we need to do to get better quicker and cross that bridge when we get to it."

2006 MLB Maddux 開幕2連勝

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4/12 Cin G Maddux (W, 2-0) IP 6.0 H3 R1 ER1 HR0 BB2 SO7 86-57 ERA 1.46

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Maddux's success driven by his impeccable control

When Greg Maddux made his major league debut in 1986, he was 20 years old, then the youngest pitcher in baseball.

"I've always thought it would be cool,'' he said a few years ago, "to leave as the oldest.''

Someday, he might get his wish. He turns 40 today, and based on how well he has thrown in his first two starts of this season, he might have several good years left.

This comes as no surprise to one of the men who knows him best, Orioles' pitching coach Leo Mazzone, who was Maddux's pitching coach for 11 years in Atlanta. Mazzone had the pleasure of working with the master craftsman of pitching, one of the greatest control pitchers of all time, and by our unofficial count, the sixth-best pitcher of all time. Mazzone was with Maddux in the bullpen in between starts and before games, in the weight room, on the bench during games and in conferences on the mound. He knows the secret to Maddux's remarkable success and longevity. And there's nothing complicated about it.

Greg Maddux isn't overpowering, but he's been overwhelmingly successful during his pitching career.
"He is so smart, he makes everything so simple,'' Mazzone said. "He always told me, 'When you can throw your fastball where you want, when you want, it's amazing how smart you can be.' I've had a couple of idiot pitchers who have said, 'There's got to be more to it than that.' He's the smartest pitcher I've ever seen. He's the greatest pitcher I've ever seen. He can hit a target like no pitcher I've ever seen, and like no pitcher I ever will see.''

Maddux's brother, Mike, the pitching coach for the Brewers, says that he and his little brother get ready for spring training by throwing to each other in January. They begin by playing catch, then, after a few minutes, Mike will get in a catcher's crouch, and Greg -- in his first throwing session in nearly three months -- will hit his glove every time.


Happy 40th, Greg Maddux!
Most wins before turning 40 ...

436 Cy Young
417 Walter Johnson
373 Christy Mathewson
361 Pud Galvin
360 Kid Nichols
341 Tim Keefe
327 Grover Alexander
327 John Clarkson
320 Greg Maddux

"The first time he threw for me in the bullpen [in 1993],'' Mazzone said, "he threw 80 percent of his pitches from the stretch. I asked him why he did that, and he said, 'The biggest pitches I make in every game come from the stretch.' It's so simple, but I'd never seen another pitcher do that. He always told me the hardest pitch for a right-handed pitcher to throw is a fastball down and away to a right-handed hitter. That's the one he practices all the time. He's always practicing, he's always thinking about what he'll do next.''
Maddux has the game planned out before it begins.

"I've had him tell me, 'In the third inning, I'm going to get that guy to pop out to third base,' and then he does it,'' Mazzone said. "I've seen us score five or six runs in the fifth inning to put the game away, and he'll come up to me and say, 'How far do you want me to go? Do you want nine? Or does the bullpen need the work, and I'll go seven?' His game plan is going to be different if he's going nine or seven. I've never seen a pitcher think the way he does.''

That philosophy relates directly to wins. Maddux holds the major league record with 17 straight seasons of at least 15 wins, a streak that ended last year. But with a 13-win season this year, he will tie Cy Young's major league record of 19 consecutive seasons with 13 or more wins. Two years ago, Maddux became the oldest non-knuckleball pitcher to lead his league in starts. This week, Maddux became the second pitcher since 1900 to get to 320 wins before he turned 40.

Maddux isn't big or strong, he doesn't even look like a baseball player or even an athlete. But looks don't tell the entire story, because he is a great athlete. He has won 15 consecutive Gold Gloves, has 248 hits in his career and is one of the game's best bunters. Despite having a soft-looking body, he has been incredibly durable -- he has been on the disabled list just once in his 20-plus-year career.

"He has great mechanics,'' Mazzone said. "He's very compact, very uncomplicated in his delivery. He never gets overextended. He's not a maximum effort guy on every pitch. His workouts are all baseball-related -- lots of running and throwing. There are a lot of days when he feels lousy, but he always goes out there. I know a lot of pitchers who won't go out there when they don't feel good.''


“He is so smart, he makes everything so simple. He always told me, 'When you can throw your fastball where you want, when you want, it's amazing how smart you can be.' ”
— Leo Mazzone on Greg Maddux
Despite Maddux's compact, uncomplicated approach, an approach that has no need for strikeouts except in strikeout situations, Maddux surpassed the 3,000-strikeout mark last year. This season, he likely will pass Bob Gibson into 12th place on the all-time strikeout list (Maddux presently has 3,060 strikeouts, while Gibson finished his career with 3,117). He has one 200-strikeout season in his career -- Phil Niekro has three among those in the 3,000-strikeout club, and everyone else has at least five. Maddux has only 16 10-strikeout games, 199 fewer than Nolan Ryan.

But even without the strikeouts, Maddux has been dominating in his own way for nearly 20 years, thanks in part to his incredible competitiveness. Several years ago, Hall of Fame pitcher Don Sutton invited Maddux to go out to dinner with him. Maddux politely declined, saying, "I've got a pizza that I didn't finish from last night, and I've got a video game that I can't beat, but tonight, I'm going to beat that game."

And, of course, he did. He's Greg Maddux.

Tim Kurkjian is a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine.

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Edguy - Rocket Ride World Tour 2006!

Rocket Ride World Tour 2006!

Date: Location: Venue: (tickets)

Jan 27.06 Manchester (UK) MDH
Jan 29.06 Nottingham (UK) Nottingham Rock City
Jan 30.06 Leeds (UK) University
Jan 31.06 Glascow (UK) Glascow Academy
Feb 01.06 Newcastle (UK) University
Feb 03.06 London (UK) Astoria
Feb 04.06 Vosselaar (B) Biebop *+
Feb 06.06 Pratteln (CH) Z7
Feb 07.06 Milan (I) Rolling Stone
Feb 09.06 Madrid (E) Aqualung
Feb 10.06 Porto (P) Hard Club
Feb 11.06 Bergara (E) Sala Jam
Feb 12.06 Barcelona (E) Razzmatazz 2
Feb 14.06 Lyon (F) Transbordeur
Feb 15.06 Paris (F) Elysee Mont Martre
Feb 17.06 Stuttgart (D) LKA
Feb 18.06 Kaufbeuren (D) All-Karthalle
Feb 20.06 Langen (D) Stadthalle
Feb 21.06 Koln (D) Live Music Hall
Feb 22.06 Oberhausen (D) Turbinenhalle
Feb 24.06 Lichtenfels (D) Stadthalle
Feb 25.06 Osnabruck (D) Halle Gartlage
Feb 26.06 Hamburg (D) Markthalle
Feb 28.06 Goteborg (S) Trädgarn
Mar 01.06 Stockholm (S) Arenan
Mar 02.06 Lund (S) Mejeriet
Mar 04.06 Fulda (D) Wartenberg-Oval
Mar 15.06 Osaka (JP) Quattro
Mar 16.06 Tokyo, (JP) Ebisu Liquid Room
Mar 17.06 Tokyo, (JP) Ebisu Liquid Room
Mar 19.06 Taipei (TW) Family Theater
Mar 21.06 Hong Kong (CHI) Hitec Auditorium
Mar 24.06 Peking (CHI) Red Hall
July 16.06 Vizovice (CZ) Masters of Rock



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Edguy’s brilliant new album, Rocket Ride, gets a review with a difference; the band’s very own nutty vocalist Tobias Sammet helps us give a complete track-by-track rundown of the whole album. Why? Well, because we asked him to.

Edguy began this year with the release of Rocket Ride and a support tour of the UK with Dragonforce. They then took Dragonforce with them for a Europe-wide headlining tour before going to Japan. They’re now in China. The new album is a perfect power metal album. It doesn’t take itself too seriously, makes jokes in the right places, handles important issues in the right way and does the whole thing with superb vocals, excellent musicianship and most importantly, variety. It’s exactly what you’d want from a power metal album.

Myself and Tobias did this a long time ago now, over a lunchtime drink at a hotel lounge in London, before the album was even out, but I decided not to spoil the surprise for any Edguy fans out there, as Tobias was quite revealing about the album’s content, and kept it under wraps for a time. The album’s been out a little while now, so the fans have had a while to live with it. We therefore think it’s about time, we share with you Tobias’ thoughts on each track and maybe shed some light on some of the meanings of the songs for you. We might also inspire some new people to check out the album, who knows?

Sacrifice
“It’s a long song and probably the most complicated song on the album, which is why many people think it’s strange to have it on the album as the opening track, but my opinion is it doesn’t matter to a metalhead how long the opening track is. Nobody sits there with a watch checking the running time of the song, you know. Metalheads are bright enough to cope with an eight minute opening track. They don’t need a hit single as the opening track. So it doesn’t make a difference.

“It has everything Edguy is about. It has aggressive passages, it has very calmed down passages, it has aggressive guitar riffing, it has anthemic melodies, everything. So it sums up the whole range of Edguy and the whole diversity. Lyrically it’s a very serious song, which is very funny because the cover artwork is really funny and of course there’s a few funny jokes, but Sacrifice has some very serious lyrics. It’s just writing down feelings. There’s a lot of things going on around me, and it has been like that for ten years. My life is constantly moving in the fast lane, which is a good thing! Travelling around, meeting a lot of people, and being on stage all the time, being in the studio writing songs. So there’s really not a lot of time to think, for me. Not a lot of time on my own. But when you’re on your own, especially in a hotel room, and everything starts to calm down and then you have time to think, so it’s just about how sometimes you’re really irritated by when you’ve got time to think on your own that everything starts to slow down and starts to happen in slow motion. It’s really to cope with the situation, to face a situation that you don’t know, that you’re not so familiar with, and that sacrifice I have to make is when you have so much going on around you that you’re facing an unreal, a surreal situation when you finally have time on your own. It’s a sacrifice not being able to cope with just normal situations.”

Rocket Ride
“There have been periods in my life where I’ve been spending a lot time thinking about the meaning of life and trying to find a deeper meaning in everything, but then on the other hand it will lead you to nowhere spending a lot of time thinking about conspiracy theories and the meaning of life and religion and philosophy. It’s a great thing to think a lot, but it can really drive you nuts, so there has to be some point where you just have to accept that we are just animals as any other animal. So Rocket Ride is just about embracing the profanity of life. Sometimes you’ve just got to switch off your brain and just live. Enjoy being a human being with all it’s lower needs. There are some!”

Wasted Time
“Wasted Time is a classic mid-tempo track for Edguy. It’s got some Scorpions in it, especially the riffing in the verse. That’s really funny because I’ve just come from Spain and they said they just did an interview with, like Classic Rock Spain, or something, where Rudolph Schenker said Edguy are the new Scorpions of Germany. The younger generation Scorpions. I felt really honoured, because I like the Scorpions, I gotta admit, especially the ’80s stuff they did. So I think Wasted Time has got a Scorpions touch, but still it’s more bombastic, and a heavier track. Lyrically it’s about a situation where you look back at a failed relationship and you just wonder if it all was wasted. Of course it’s not, but somehow we tend to be self-destructive and we tend to be self-sympathetic, so it was just all a waste of time. It’s a nice idea to think like that and just tell the World “it was all a waste of time”, and that’s what the song is about.”

Matrix
“Matrix is nothing to do with the movie. I don’t even know the movie, I know about the movie, but I’ve never seen it, I’m not too much into movies. Musically I’ve gotta say it’s a little bit different. It used to start like a normal Dio song. Dio meets modern keyboards. Sascha (Paeth) really produced it into a different direction. We were about three minutes into the song and he came up and said “Hey, I’ve heard this song!” So he was adding a lot of keyboards and rearranging everything and finally he liked it. I don’t know if it’s a typical Edguy song, but on the other hand you’ve got to surprise people at times, just to keep it interesting and exciting. And we were fine with the song, we said “OK, let’s do it this way, let’s take the song like that.”

“Lyrically, it’s kind of like Sacrifice, it’s when you discover there are two totally controlling sides to your personality somewhere inside. I’ve always felt like a real family kind of person, you know? Being very, very close to my family and being tightly bound to my home and to where I come from. Being a touring musician, with all those temptations that you have to face, it’s a very controlled thing. The first lines have been inspired by the feeling when you wake up in morning, looking in the mirror looking like shit, remembering the Jack Daniel’s bottle you had the night before, not remembering the name of the one who’s lying in bed next to you, and just asking, like, “what am I, really? It’s really time to reboot myself and try to find out what is right and what is wrong.” But, you know, finally when the song was written, one of the backing vocalists in the studio, Amanda, she is American and she was reading the lyrics in a different way totally. She said “it looks like you’re struggling with a fucked up relationship to a girl”. And I said “oh, that’s the way you can read as well?” She said “Yeah, I think that’s what it’s about.” “Oh good, so, it’s not at all about that, but if it works like that too, cool!”

Return To The Tribe
“Return To The Tribe is a typical Edguy song, speed metal, very easy going. We have a vocal guitar solo in there, I was singing the guitar solo. We were having a few beers in the studio and I told Sascha how I sing some solos to the others to give them an idea of what I think. He said “Oh, we should record that” and I said “yeah, cool!” We ran it through an amplifier with distortion and I was singing like a guitar solo and it sounded real! So we left it like that on the album. I think it’s the first time a vocalist sings a guitar solo, but I don’t know. Lyrically it’s just about the feeling you have when you’ve been on tour for months and no matter how much you like touring, really you’re just looking forward to, and remembering, people at home, you’re looking forward to meeting them and looking forward to going back to your shelter. Just looking forward to all sorts, “I enjoy what I’m doing, and I’m looking forward to doing it again next time, but now I’m going home to the great PlayStation evenings with my friends and drinking white wine and smoking a pipe and just enjoying a great evening at home.”

The Asylum
“Asylum is a classic Edguy track. It starts as a ballad, you know, really calm, and then it explodes, which is something I really like in our songs. We do that a lot of times, when we really calm down the whole mood of the song to make it explode afterwards. That’s a typical thing that Richard Wagner did as well in his music. He always had these huge, huge, huge explosions after it had calmed down. It’s classic Dio meets Edguy bombastic stuff. It’s got a very nice guitar solo, I think, I really appreciate it. Jens did a terrific job, especially the clean guitar solo. A very, very calm guitar solo. And lyrically it’s a political song, in a way, but it was never meant to be because I don’t think it makes sense to write political songs. I don’t think a war will end just because Bob Dylan sings about anti-tank missile silos and shit. It’s really stupid for bands to do that. It should be entertaining first. If it’s entertaining then it’s OK to be political as well. This song is just exploring the roots of evil, because everybody sees evil as something different. Controlling opinions, controlling ways of life, we tend to see that as evil. Or like this whole terrorism thing. I mean, of course it’s evil to fly a plane into a building and kill innocent people. That’s evil. And to blow up bombs in a subway station. There’s no way of calling something like that not evil. But, let’s put it this way. A snake. If you corner it, it will bite you. But if you leave it alone, give it space, give it a chance to find it’s food in the forest, there’s no snake in the World that will go “ooh, a human, that’s nice pray, let’s eat it!” That’s why I think sometimes we make it too easy for ourselves to call something else evil, without understanding the position. And I think that’s what happens globally at the moment. We corner some people, and we corner certain countries. If it’s their last chance to bite back, they will bite back.”

Save Me
“Save Me is a very, very kitschy love song. I love kitsch. Maybe some people call it embarrassing, but it’s cool, we are an embarrassing band! That’s what we’re supposed to be, that’s what heavy metal is supposed to be. I mean, I wonder what Dee Snider would say if someone came up and said “you look ridiculous, you look embarrassing”. He’d say “of course! That’s what it’s intended to be like.” So, Save Me is just a typical love ballad. Of course some people say that this topic has been really, really overdone. I don’t think so much about what is needed and what is overdone and what is not overdone, you just have to have feelings, and that is what I had in mind. It’s a beautiful song, I think. It’s a classic ballad, but again Sascha produced it into a very modern direction, production wise. Some people say it sounds like Nickelback. I think it’s still just an Edguy ballad. Some other people said it sounds like Matchbox 20.”

Catch of The Century
“Dokken meets Edguy meets Van Halen! I’m really proud of that song. It’s one of my favourites because it’s a good package as a whole. It’s a song about being turned down by a woman that you don’t want to be turned down by. It’s not so much the topic itself that makes it so funny and interesting and gives it the right attitude, I think it’s more the words. “I’m going down with flying colours before I go down on someone else” and stuff like that. “You’ve got your catch going down the drain, you’re dumping the catch of the century, Lady Luck’s got her ass in pain, you’re dumping the catch of the century.” It’s just the best way to get over a situation like that, just to say “hey, you don’t want me, you don’t deserve me!” That’s what I have to tell myself several times a day. There are many people in the World who don’t deserve me, I can tell you!”

Out of Vogue
“It’s all in the title itself, pretty much. It’s a real out of vogue song, it sounds like an ’80s rock song. Jens wrote it actually, almost everything. Ironically I wrote the solo and our guitar player wrote all the rest! Which is really stupid, but it is what it is. And I wrote the lyrics. It’s just about being out of vogue, and being out of vogue is the greatest thing in the World because if you try to be in vogue you will always be late. I just don’t understand that. Even if you manage to be fashionable, you just manage to be fashionable for a short time. And that’s the stupid thing, you should stick with what you really are and what you really want to do. And that’s what we do. Many people say “oh, that’s unfashionable and that’s old fashioned” and we say “yeah! And we’re damn proud of it! We are totally out of vogue!” Some people say we suck. Some people only listen to fashionable stuff, therefore Elvis is old fashioned shit and it sucks. Well, maybe we suck, but we sound quite good sucking!”

Superheroes
“Some people say we’re going pop, just because that was the first single. Well, it was the softest song. It doesn’t make sense to take the heaviest track, or the longest track, or the most complicated track and make it the single. It reminds me of the heavier version of old Bon Jovi. And that’s a good thing, we’ve always had that hard rock appeal to it.”

Trinidad
“Trinidad was supposed to be one of two bonus tracks. But it turned out to be so funny; it has no meaning. The meaning is I’m pulling fun out of my height. I’m not the tallest guy. I’ve been with a girlfriend and she was taller than me. It was like I had to walk on the sidewalk and she had to walk in the street so we were the same size. Again, it’s not so much the topic that is funny, but I think it’s the choice of words that makes it funny. Like “I’m a sight for sore eyes if your eyes could only see, I’ve been born on tiptoes, still you look like a lighthouse next to me,” and stuff like that. The song is just about a man who’s made fun of and while his wife is sleeping he decides to go out to grab some food and goes out and departs to Trinidad and never comes back and hangs out at the beach with girls. Some people may say this is really bullshit, but I say yeah, it is, but at least it’s entertaining and interesting and funny. And the song turned out to be so good; it’s anthemic, so we said “hey, let’s put it on the album.”

Fucking With Fire
“Our goal was to write a real ludicrous ’80s cock-rock anthem. And I think we did that. Every single syllable is cliché. “I saw her coming in high heels, moving like a queen”, I mean that’s so stupid it’s embarrassing, but again, we are an embarrassing band! Hairforce One is the subtitle, which refers to hair metal, of course. We thought it was funny and in the end we thought this is an anthem and some people may think we’re nuts, and that’s good, so let’s put it on the album. And I think it should work pretty well live.”

Standing In The Rain
“Erm, Standing In The Rain isn’t going to be a bonus track at all. I mean, Standing In The Rain has been recorded and it’s completed, but we decided, because it was so strong, to take it as a song and use it for another single. At the moment there’s no plan to release another single, so we’re listening to it at home.”

Watch for the rest of our exclusive interview with Tobias coming soon.

BLIND GUARDIAN - Fly

BLIND GUARDIAN - Fly

等了四年 BLIND GUARDIAN 終於發了新單曲 Fly

Tracklist
Fly
Skalds And Shadows (acoustic version)
In A Gadda Da Vida (cover version)

曲風還是維持上一張專輯 A Night At The Opera 的味道
我自己覺得有些失望
他們似乎脫離了之前的 Tales From The Twilight World 和Somewhere Far Beyond的風格
thrash & speedy heavy metal stuff 似乎少了點 多了些搖滾味和progressive的東西

難怪Thomen Stauch要離團 另組SAVAGE CIRCU
反而現在SAVAGE CIRCU 還比BLIND GUARDIAN更像BLIND GUARDIAN

雖然如此 新專輯還是讓我非常期待
畢竟讓人喜愛的金屬專輯 越來越少了
希望能聽到等待四年後 BLIND GUARDIAN所帶來的完整專輯

2006 -> Fly
2003 -> Live
2003 -> The Bard´s Song (In The Forest)
2002 -> A Night At The Opera
2001 -> And Then There Was Silence
1998 -> Nightfall In Middle-Earth
1998 -> Mirror Mirror
1996 -> The Forgotten Tales
1996 -> Mr. Sandman
1995 -> Imaginations From The Other Side
1995 -> A Past And Future Secret
1993 -> Tokyo Tales
1992 -> Somewhere Far Beyond
1990 -> Tales From The Twilight World
1989 -> Follow The Blind
1988 -> Battalions Of Fear

時間的賊&鬼使神偷

收到了臉譜的信件 告知有優惠折扣的書可買
臉譜推理一年一度閱讀盛事
這次是和金石堂合作的79折優惠
剛好等這本 Tony Hillerman 時間的賊 等很久了

一直想照他的出書順序看下來
這本第8本的書 A Thief of Time 1988
中文版反而是延後到第10本才出的
連帶的之前買的兩本 說話的神 凱歐狼總是等著
也都沒看 一直放著
趁這個機會趕快買下來

另外也買了鬼使神偷The Velvet Touch 這本書
這是因為網站上介紹的

愛德華．霍克 Edward D. Hoch
當代短篇推理小說之王
2001年美國愛倫坡獎大師獎得主
世界短篇推理之王愛德華．霍克
最受歡迎的神偷費爾威系列正式登場

看到這標題 而想買來看看 希望不會讓人失望

WoW UI

最近玩WoW時 一直不定時的出現當機 困腦了許久
直到今天才想到是不是因為裝了太多的UI 才會發生這樣的情形
雖然把UI的記憶體加大到56MB 但還是一直發生當機
利用今晚的當班 把自己較常用的整理一下
打算用些單體的UI 不再用整合的UI包 回去試驗看看 是否可以改善當機的情況

目標如下:

Titan Titan面板

CooldownCount(技能冷卻時間)
提供清楚的技能冷卻時間資訊 執行/cc顯示參數命令

MyBank(整合銀行包包)
可整合銀行包包由單一視窗顯示 執行/mb顯示參數命令

MobInfo2(怪物資料)
顯示並紀錄怪物的血量、魔法值、掉落物品等資料
執行/mi2設定

QuickLoot(快速拾取)
撿取視窗自動對應滑鼠位置 按下Shift鍵拾取可直接取得所有物品

AF_Tooltip(訊息提示)
滑鼠移到玩家或 NPC 出現的提示會跟著指標移動 不再固定右下角 執行/aftt設定

Auctioneerpack(拍賣、附魔、物品助手)
拍賣場價格紀錄、拍賣紀錄等 執行/auctioneer顯示參數命令
裝備分解材料機率顯示 執行/enchantrix顯示參數命令
物品買賣價、NPC販賣等 執行/informant顯示參數命令
物品,拍賣,附魔助手 初次使用請先輸入
/informant load always
/auctioneer load always
/Enchantrix load always
保持永遠開啟
/informant embed on
/auctioneer embed on
/Enchantrix embed on
可整合視窗

ImprovedErrorFrame
錯誤收集視窗,避免擋到遊戲進行 v3.0
執行/ief顯示設定參數

ItemRack (更換裝備)

Super Marco

CT_RaidAssist 1.5411
幫助你觀察團隊的詳細狀態

CT_RABossMods 1.24 Multi v1.534
Boss警報器，需配合RaidAssist使用

先整理出這些 要等實際玩後才能確定 能否夠用
國外的UI資訊 真的非常豐富
http://ui.worldofwar.net/
光是這個網站的東西就看不完了...

這個中文網站也很符合我的需求
http://vega.cs.tku.edu.tw/~u8197228/blog/item/795

5本臉譜推理書 900元

前兩個星期上大夜班時 在臉譜網站 看到會員優惠
5本臉譜推理精選書，特價900元
http://www.faces.com.tw/activity200601/sale.php
回家後馬上刷卡買了 我買的是這5本 算算還滿便宜的
好像每次上大夜班時 都會忍不住買些什麼的...

(FR1005X)希臘棺材的秘密 180
(FR2402)作廢的捷克人 180
(FR3201)模仿犯(上) 180
(FR3202)模仿犯(下) 180
(FR6109)凱歐狼總是等著 180

東尼‧席勒曼 : 作品年表 但臉譜出書的順序卻有些差別

1970 The Blessing Way 祝福之祭-1
1974 Dance Hall of the Dead 亡者的歌舞之殿-2
1978 Listening Woman 聆聽大地的女人-3
1980 People of Darkness 黑暗的人-4
1982 The Dark Wind 黑風-5
1984 The Ghostway 消失在納瓦荷的證人-6
1986 Skinwalkers 皮行者-7
1988 A Thief of Time 時間的賊-10
1989 Talking God 說話的神-8
1990 Coyote Waits 凱歐狼總是等著-9
1993 Sacred Clowns
1996 The Fallen Man
1998 The First Eagle
1999 Hunting Badger
2002 The Wailing Wind
2003 The Sinister Pig
2004 Skeleton Man

雜記

這是看到中國時報的副刊 剛好自己也有買這片東京物語 李歐梵先生也寫的非常棒 看了特別有感覺 所以貼上來

























2006.01.01　 中國時報 人間
http://news.chinatimes.com/Chinatimes/Philology/Philology-Coffee/0,3406,0+11051301+20060101,00.html

小津的世界 早春、晚春、麥秋OZU

李歐梵 　(20060101)


記得在七十年代初第一次看小津安二郎的「東京物語」，終場時我發現大部分觀眾都是眼淚汪汪地離場，那是在一座大學城──普林斯頓，觀影者大多是學生和教授，是一個很「世故」（甚至相當「勢利」（snobbish）的地方，然而大家卻被小津電影中純真的世界所感動。如果說當今世界仍然存有「普世價值」的話，小津應該是「家庭」價值的歷史代言人，他的作品是影史上最動人的見證。

最近幾年，也許因為我年歲日增，我發現自己越來越鍾愛小津的電影。日前某晚又和妻子同看他的「早春」，這是他一九五六年出品，繼「東京物語」（一九五三年）後的傑作，也許沒有後者那麼感人，而且片子全長一百四十四分鐘，可能也創下小津最長的影片的紀錄，但是我一口氣看到底，一點也不覺得沉悶。為什麼？

許多影評人都說過：小津的作品故事越來越平淡，場景就是那幾個：火車、東京的辦公大樓、日本式的住屋、人物都往往坐在室內的「榻榻米」上（因此鏡頭也大多從這種三呎高的坐姿拍攝）──酒吧間中的幾張凳子、一個吧台，最多再加上幾個吃飯的小房間……。小津的鏡頭也只有那幾個：開場的場景往往是火車疾行，接著是一兩個外景的空鏡頭，然後就進入室內，家裡的人開始起身、吃飯、談話、上班……。甚至小津影片中的對白也極平庸簡單，往往還夾雜了不少「空話」，譬如「啊，是嗎？」「嗯！」「是的」，當然更多「早安」「謝謝」之類的日常招呼詞。幾乎所有的影片都沒有高潮，「早春」尤其如此，那位男主角的表情永遠是一臉的無奈，正像其他影片中的原節子說話時永遠是一臉的微笑一樣。還有那位在小津影片中從年輕演到老（真實年齡）的笠智眾，一直老到演「東京物語」和「晚春」中的老祖父和爸爸。最妙的是「麥秋」幾乎成了「晚春」的翻版和回應，場景幾乎一樣，只把男女主角的角色對調就行了，都是為了結婚或不結婚。

●「結婚」主題

記得我多年前在研究院學日文時，最先學到的一個名詞就是「結婚」，這也是小津電影中的永恆主題，然而他自己卻一生未娶，而且事母至孝，他母親死去不久，小津也隨之去世，所以他的影片中母親的形象──和由此而衍生的家庭主婦的形象──更多。然而在他的電影世界中，男女仍然是分開的，在酒吧喝酒的永遠是男士，如果女性插足男性世界的話（如「早春」中綽號金魚的女同事），一定居心不良，變成破壞家庭的一份子。在辦公室裡，男女各在不同的地方工作，也授受不親，即使一起去郊遊，男女之間也不踰矩，更沒有什麼兩性吸引的火花。

在小津的世界中，似乎沒有任何身體的慾望，只有生活。難怪美國和歐洲的導演們對小津只有讚羨，卻學不到他的精髓：德國的溫德斯（Win Wenders）應算是最崇拜小津的人，但他自己的電影風格仍然缺乏「小津味」。侯孝賢在多次否認受小津影響後，終於承認在鏡頭的運用上受到小津的啟發，但從「童年往事」到「悲情城市」，侯孝賢影片中的家庭還是比不上小津作品中的恬靜和樸素。

有的影評家說：這就是小津電影中特有的「禪」味！我不完全同意。我覺得小津從頭到尾都是「入世」的，甚至很世俗。也許我們從小津自己說的一段話中得到一點啟發：

「我沒有汲汲於交代故事，反而留下許多空白……，我想，這些空白，其餘韻或將更深遠。」

對我來說，這句話中最值得深思的就是「空白」和「餘韻」這兩個名詞。「空白」是一種形式上的美學和哲學，談論的人很多，餘韻應該是空白的副產品，但我卻將之視為對等物。且讓我先從餘韻（回味）說起。

也許「餘韻」和「餘味」甚為相似，但也有些許不同。小津的作品中，至少有兩部影片的名字帶有「味」覺：「茶泡飯之味」和「秋刀魚之味」，但只有一部與音韻有關係：「東京合唱」（一九三○年，我沒有看過）。然而，每當我看完一部小津的電影在回味時──甚至在觀影過程之中──都感受到不少「餘韻」。

●歌韻場面

最令我感動的歌韻場面，就是在大自然的空鏡頭背後聽到的小學生或中學生合唱。也許我嗜愛音樂太深，每聽到那股餘韻繞山谷的合唱，就會想到我初到台灣時在新竹中學唱的歌，起初時聽起來，的確有點「日本味」，但原曲往往不是來自日本，而是德國：例如改編自舒伯特的「菩提樹」。這類音樂是我少年的精神食糧，想對小津個人更是如此，我甚至可以大膽地推斷：小津和他那一代日本人，經過二次大戰（他也被召入伍）的殺戮後，如何仍能保存一點人性？音樂可能是不可或缺的因素，德國的藝術歌曲尤然。此中的文化原因有待查證，但這種「餘韻」似的情操，倒是在侯孝賢的「悲情城市」中的一場戲裡得以發揮，也就是片中引用的德國民歌「羅瑞萊」（Loreilei），然後接著是談到明治時期日本年輕人因為追悼美感而跳崖自殺的故事。

在大自然中聽到歌唱的音韻──特別是學生郊遊時唱的歌──往往令年長的人有所回味，即使不主動地聽，音畫對位的效果卻會觸動對人生旅程的感傷，所以老年夫婦在沙灘堤上望海無言（「東京物語」），一片失落之情，然後老頭子對他老伴說： 「該回家了！」於是她也回答：「噢！」（我看到此，早已熱淚盈眶）。於是，老父對女兒說：「你該結婚了！」女兒說：「不，我要永遠和爸爸在一起！」老父說不行，於是就坐在旅館的榻榻米上，緩緩地曉以大義（「晚春」、「麥秋」的故事相仿，但人物倒置）。

然而也不能過度渲染這類「大自然」的餘韻，否則又會落入人生如浮雲或浮草式的半禪宗說法。其實小津片中的火車鏡頭更多，火車代表的當然是「現代性」（modernity）。小津沒有川端康成那麼超然，或一味沉醉於傳統的美學境界，小津的入世哲學絕對是基於現代──一種日本式的現代生活，特別是在二次大戰剛結束的「青黃不接」的時期，「上班族」剛剛出現（「早春」），但上班族住的仍舊是老式的日本房子，所以在這個極有限的空間中，就顯現了小津所獨有的「空白」哲學。

●空間角度

美國評論家──如Noel Burch──往往以此為根據談了不少小津的禪宗式風格。依此類推的話，我們甚至可以把日本人習慣坐在榻榻米上的姿勢也叫作「坐禪」！我認為大可不必。其實日本和中國一樣，飲食起居是日常生活中的重要儀式，而小津的電影中更注重這種生活儀式，它是一種不斷重複卻不自覺的日常習慣，所以拍攝這種生活儀式時，鏡頭也必須是重複的，不能有任何驚人的視角和和節奏；換言之，務必要求得影片內和影片外的日常生活世界的一致。

小津作品中的這種生活儀式，可以從空間的角度來研究，例如人和物、人和人的對置關係，或鏡頭角度所捕捉的室內空間等等，然而我更感興趣的卻是時間問題。小津的剪接技巧是不露痕跡的，如不仔細看，往往會覺得自己就和那幾個日本人生活在一起。但讓我自覺的卻是片中的空鏡頭：不但是房中的過道──在人物進入之前的空間──而且是各種其他有關物的鏡頭：街燈、窗戶、衣架、桌子、榻榻米上的床被……，每一個空鏡頭的時間過渡都是有規律的，我曾默默地數過：大概三四秒鐘，不多不少，重複時依然如此。這種重複性的空鏡頭，當轉向人物的中鏡頭時，也仍然保持同一個緩慢──但並不冗長──的速度，這種節奏，如果用音樂的術語就是andante（行板），但非adagio（慢板），我們之所以覺得小津電影的節奏緩慢，是因為看了好萊塢或香港的新片子太多，節奏不是太快就是太不規律，而且無謂的大特寫用得太多！小津的影片中很少有大特寫鏡頭，即使用面部特寫（最接近的特寫也包括整個頭部），它的時間也絕不故意拖長，有時候我會故意數這種鏡頭的節拍，當我本能地運用小津式的節奏說「cut」之前半秒鐘，鏡頭就自然地轉換了。

●平凡生命

這真是鬼斧神工！我久久反思分析，還是說不出一個道理來，試想一部莫札特的「安魂曲」完全用同一個andante的速度演唱出來，或是舒伯特的「未完成交響曲」（我當年在新竹中學常聽的音樂）用同一個緩緩的速度奏出，沒有任何重音，而且「完成」了整整四個樂章！抑或是巴哈的cantatas一首接一首的唱出來，用同一個速度，不慢不快、不慌不忙，聽久了可能真會進入「聖樂」之境。（或者會呼呼大睡?!）

小津電影的迷人之處，我認為就在於此。也許我是走火入魔，但入的是一個充滿人情味的日常生活的世界，小津織造這個世界，用的就是普通人物和空鏡頭。有時他也會越出常規，譬如在「晚春」中他用了一段很長的時間去拍攝片中父女同觀的「歌舞伎」，表現了另一種更「正規」（formal）的儀式，看似與劇情無關，其實用的是小津一慣的旁敲側擊的手法，以此來「反測」男女主角的心態。

走筆至此，才感到我在文中所用的影片例子可能有誤，應該再去查證一次，然而回頭一想又不覺失笑，小津不是和王家衛一樣──應該說王家衛學的是小津──幾乎說的都是同一個故事？因此鏡頭出自何片並不重要，重要的是他的全部作品中的世界，這當然是一種「作家論」的說法，然而小津這位「作家」呈現出來的世界就是我們自己的生活：飲食起居、生老病死、悲歡離合……，我們也會隨著小津影片中的人物度過我們平凡的一生。



看到這個作者投書 又碰到這兩天剛好是陳金鋒和 la new 熊 要談論簽約事宜 覺得非常捨不得這樣的好選手 居然會淪落到回中華職棒打球 真有莫名的感傷

























2006.01.02　 中國時報
http://news.chinatimes.com/Chinatimes/newslist/newslist-content/0,3546,110514+112006010200234,00.html


王建民風 驗證體育國際化
黃國洲


編者按：二○○五年體育風潮盛行，職棒二次涉賭案、首次亞洲職棒大賽，而這其中王建民站穩紐約洋基舞台，該是體壇第一大事。

多年以後，我們這一代的球迷將如何談論二○○五年的台灣棒球呢？


「我想知道那些優秀的台灣少棒選手長大變成怎樣？他們到那裡去了？」這是名人堂投手，三屆賽揚獎得主帕瑪（Jim Palmer）退休轉任球評所講過的話。陳金鋒、曹錦輝可能令他印象不深，但王建民今年的表現應該可以做為這句話的答案了。是的，台灣人，「歡迎來到大秀場！」

其實，曾擔任過多年少棒世界大賽（也就是我們熟知的，在威廉波特所舉行的比賽）講評工作的帕瑪，他親眼目睹的那些選手應該都比這批第一波留美風潮的台灣球員早上幾屆。那些人呢？當年的最佳選項是「打日本職棒」。

台灣棒球的發展腳步向來是亦步亦趨、效法師承的日本，若不是一九九五年野茂英雄赴美刮起「龍捲風」，引發東方球員入侵大聯盟的新浪潮，我們很難想像台灣球員能否有越級挑戰美國職棒的勇氣。當然，外在環境的改變也是一大助力：大聯盟比賽的能見度、兵役制度的革新……

除了共產古巴，世界棒球強權與職業化的關係密不可分，美國職棒肇始於一八六九年，日本在一九三六年成立職棒聯盟，台灣則遲至一九九○年。三國棒球的職業化速度類似等差序列，制度的繁簡也有相當程度的差距（級數、聯盟、分區……），此外，經濟水平也具體反映出此項運動產業的規模。以大聯盟的薪資為例，勞資雙方協議的最低年薪（三十一萬六千美元），對職業化十六年的台灣選手而言，依舊是個令人咋舌的數字。

身為挑戰大聯盟的先驅者，王建民並沒搶到「頭香」（第一位大聯盟的台灣選手是陳金鋒，投手則是曹錦輝），然而，卻無礙他的歷史定位──第一位「站穩」大聯盟的先發投手。而且，最難能可貴的是在美國職棒的看板球隊──紐約洋基，雖說靠著幾分機運，但想要在最勢利難搞的「老闆」（Boss，球團擁有者George Steinbrenner的綽號）、媒體聚焦的大都會及尖刻內行的球迷中脫穎而出，沒有厚實的功夫絕對是辦不到的。特別是他的「沉穩」態勢，稱得上深知棒球箇中三昧──「心智的比賽」。

只要能常保安康，相信今年王建民優異的表現（出賽十八場，八勝五敗，防禦率四．○二）僅是個起步而已，「二年級症候群」應該難不倒這位心智超齡的新秀，只是在好手如雲的大聯盟中，要想長久地佔有一席之地，還有許多考驗在等著他。前洋基名將曼托（Mickey Mantle）就曾說過：「每個打進大聯盟的人，終其一生，都是對棒球有獨特想法的人。然而，從大聯盟的觀點來看，他還是得每樣從頭學起。沒錯，你真的難以相信，花整個生命打球，但對它的理解依然那麼少。」

今年五月開始的「王建民旋風」，對國內的職棒造成兩種效應：樂觀派認為，有推波助瀾之效，可再造棒球熱潮；悲觀的人則以為，眼界大開，高下立判，且好手效法一一出走。兩派意見仁智互見，各有所本，沒料到，在王建民養傷期間，中華職棒竟掀起風暴──球員再度涉賭。

一九九七年首次爆發的簽賭事件，使得國內職棒元氣大傷，二○○三年兩聯盟合併後再出發的中華職棒大聯盟，其實尚處於療傷止痛的過度期，整體環境未見榮景。球迷們用腳投票，就是最好的寫照，偌大的外野觀眾席，稀疏荒涼的景象經常可見。如今職棒再度蒙塵，不但嚇走新球迷，原本三心兩意的老球迷也吃了錘砣鐵了心！第一次是傷心，再一次則是灰心，為何灰心？因為球迷無力！那「有力人士」呢？算了，權力邊陲的運動場上，他們只會錦上「插花」罷了！誰來「主持正義」？笑話，偵辦簽賭的檢察官本身就是個「明牌」包打聽。事已至此，夫復何言！

一九一九年美國發生「黑襪事件」，大家公認，是兩位救星挽回球迷的心，一位是首任大聯盟理事長蘭迪斯法官（Judge Landis），另一位則是大名鼎鼎的貝比魯斯（Babe Ruth）。二○○五年的世界大賽，「賭」咒纏身的白襪終於洗淨了最後一滴污漬，奪回睽違八十八年的冠軍寶座。而太平洋的另一頭，兩次的放水事件始終沒有救世主出現，一向強調「費厄潑賴」（Fair Play，即公平競賽，此語為民初林語堂所譯。）的棒球運動因而當頭棒喝，懲罰這不知醒悟的國度──年度總冠軍隊伍興農遭提前結束。（十二比一，七局被日本羅德扳倒）。

被視為明年三月的「世界棒球經典賽」（World Baseball Classic）前哨戰，今年十一月的「亞洲職棒大賽」（Asia Series）於東京先行開打。毫不意外，比賽的結局大致反映了各國的棒球實力。阿Q式的信心喊話「坐三望二搶第一」在「不望不搶」的鬆懈意志下，台灣僅贏了「棒球開發中」國家──中國。可是，提前結束的屈辱印記將永載台日兩國棒球史冊。這場難堪的比賽不僅讓許多洩氣的球迷關上電視，更讓明年新球季的台灣職棒增添許多問號。

歲末的台灣球界原本寂寥，卻傳來陳金鋒可能加盟中華職棒的消息，對這位浪跡美職七年的追夢人，回航的計畫使人五味雜陳，假使真成定局，無論如何，希望他多少能發揮一點「貝比魯斯」效應，為奄奄一息的台灣職棒注入一股新鮮的氣息。至少，在政經紛擾多年的這塊土地上，球迷還能有個地方讓心靈得到慰藉。

（作者為棒球文字工作者）