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作者: umin (Turn!Turn!Turn!) 看板: Athletics
標題: [翻譯] 無處可去的男人們阿 (下)
時間: Sun Jun 26 00:29:08 2011
外電原標題為Nowhere men，由ESPN.com的Howard Bryant所著
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/story?columnist=bryant_howard&id=6665421
The Giants, newly crowned world champions, have told Selig that an A's
relocation to San Jose would have a "dramatic and traumatic" effect on a
franchise that believes that it is on the cusp of becoming a true financial
powerhouse nearing the category of the Red Sox, Cubs and Phillies only
through the risk and creativity of privately financing a stadium when few
teams dared.
上一屆的世界大賽冠軍巨人隊，一直以來就告訴Selig，A's搬到聖荷西的話將會對一支
球隊 (巨人)有戲劇化且創傷性的影響，巨人隊相信A's搬過去後將冒著很少球隊敢有的
風險與創造力自己籌錢蓋座球場，變成一支有真正財政實力的球隊，趕上紅襪、小熊與
費城人等隊之列
The business and political leadership of San Jose, a new, potentially powerful
market and clearly one of the last big cities in the country with enough
corporate money and population to support a baseball team, is frustrated that
old, backroom rules have made it ineligible to attract a baseball team and
fears that Selig