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[mercury]

This was on the red sox message board. Kim Byung is having a hard time adapting to western life:



Here are some quotes from Doug Mirabelli on Kim:

(Asked if he got a sense that Kim was striving to be a better teammate this spring, Mirabelli shook his head.)

"I don't get a sense of anything from him. You don't get a sense for what he's feeling. I have no idea. He stays in his own world. I don't know if he gets the concept of (being) a teammate or if he grasps that. I don't know if it's a knock against him that he doesn't grasp that, but people have tried to help him out. You've got to give him some leeway for (the) language (barrier), but at some point (you realize) he does speak more than he lets on. So at that point, you start to think he's making that choice."

"He stays in his own little world. That's where he's comfortable, but when you're dealing with a team, you've got to open up a little bit and try to be a part of that. I don't think he's receptive to that. I don't know if he goes out and tries to be the way he is. He's very introverted. But at the same time, he hasn't taken the steps to try not to be."

"And it's not just me. As long as I can get something positive from him (I'll keep attempting to forge a bond), but if there's nothing positive and he's not even trying, how am I supposed to try?"

"What happens when you're a good teammate (is that) when you go through tough times, your team's behind you and supports you and helps you get through that. When he goes through tough times, he doesn't have anybody to lean on. You try to reach out early on, and try to get some kind of feedback, but he doesn't really give a lot of feedback."

"Everybody here is willing to be a good teammate. Everybody's a good teammate to each other. Why wouldn't we be a good teammate to him? We're not segregating him out of anything. He's choosing to be over there. That's his choice, not ours. It's his choice if he wants to be an effective member of the team. You can make that choice. He just doesn't. At some time, you've got to stop giving him the benefit of the doubt (with the language barrier). We've got an interpreter and people who can communicate that to him."

In other words, it's not just about numbers.



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[Kiddirts]

thanks for posting that