Chien Chi's Life

陳金鋒 is back ....

陳金鋒 ... to many of u here .... it means nothing ... but to all the taiwanese ... its a name tat can never be forgotten ... cause he had made our childhood dream come true...

many years back ... when i was still in primary sch ... we thought there can never be any of taiwanese baseball play to play in MLB .. the top baseball league in the world ... and the gambling scandle happened in 1996 made me think tat its the end of taiwanese professional baseball league ...i can never watch taiwanese play baseball again

but this guy ... used his power .. speed .... and determinations ... became the 1st chinese or taiwanese to be signed by MLB team (LA Dodgers) ... it was the 1st dream he made real to all the taiwanese ... he showed all the baseball players in taiwan tat MLB is reachable ... and followed him ... many many talented players started to challenge MLB

he then used his home runs in 2001 baseball world cup to bring back the 3rd place by beating Japan and Korea with 2 home runs each in the games ... at the same time .. he brought our passions back to the baseball fields ... people started to believe tat we r the best in asia ... even though ... i think its still some ways from Japan and Korea

in 2003 .. he again used his hitting talents to bring taiwan into olympics ... by beating Korea and China in Asian qualifying game .... he did it when everyone thought tat we were no match to Korea

2004 olympics .... he once again gave us the winning hope .. by hitting a 3 run homer against Japan .... he gave us the lead for as long as 7 innings ... only saw us to lose the lead in the last 2 innings and eventually lost ... i never blame him for not hitting another homer .. cause ... he gave me the hope when i thought its impossible to score any run from the mighty Japan...

this year ... after never securing a 1st team place in Dodgers he finally decided to come back to taiwan to play CBPL .... despite the critics said he should not do tat cause his standard will drop after playing in CBPL .... but for me ... he has done enough for taiwan ... its time for him to enjoy the star status he supposed to have in taiwan and no more struggling to get the 1st place in MLB ...

besides ... i believe tat he will once again ... like wat he has done so many times before ... bring back to crowds back to the baseball parks ... and ... many many young players will follow his foot steps to challenge the top league in the world ..