Meet Gar Ryness, the Batting Stance Guy

這一篇是來自紐約時報的報導
Gar Ryness 是一個專門模仿大聯盟打擊的人
由於由他的表演笑點十足，現在已成了超級名人。
By GREG HANLON
Published: March 14, 2009

Gar Ryness said he had the least marketable skill in the United States.
Gar Ryness說他自己是美國最沒有市場的人。
So when he and two friends took a hand-held camcorder into the backyard of his Los Angeles home last year, he hardly expected he would soon become a YouTube celebrity known as Batting Stance Guy.
所以，他和兩個朋友去年在他落杉磯家的後院用手持錄相機拍攝時，他從來也沒有想到他會成為YouTube中的名人-----Batting Stance Guy。
Ryness has a singular talent: an ability to perform comically dead-on impressions of major league baseball hitters upon request. Little Leaguers have been known to try to imitate their favorite ballplayers. Ryness, 35, a married father of two, can do the starting lineups of all 30 teams.
Ryness有一個很特別的才能：一種可以依據點播把大聯盟球員打擊時的神態用漫畫式的表演精準得模仿十足。大家都知道，小聯盟的球員一直以來想要試著模仿他們最喜歡的球星。Ryness今年35歲，已婚且有兩個小孩，可以模仿大聯盟30支隊伍的所以先發陣容。
Views of his YouTube videos number more than a million, and he appeared last year on several teams’ pregame shows. Sony also hired him to perform his impressions while wearing movement-tracking electrodes, helping programmers make the company’s MLB 2009: The Show video game look more realistic. Most recently, Ryness has made appearances on MLB Network’s team preview shows, displaying his encyclopedic knowledge of batters past and present. He has archived his body of work on a Web site, battingstanceguy.com.
點閱YouTube 這段視訊的觀眾已經超過100萬，而且他也在去年好幾個球隊的賽前表演中演出。Sony公司也聘請他做一些打擊動作，他必須穿戴一些電子儀器，用來追蹤，使得他的遊戲機上的人物動作可以更真實。
Ryness never misses a habitual fidget or gesture, like David Wright’s ritual of wedging his bat in his armpit while adjusting his batting gloves. He does iconic stances, positioning his derrière the way Ken Griffey Jr. does before mimicking Griffey’s graceful swing and follow-through. Ryness even does impressions of batters taking pitches, like Derek Jeter’s way of sticking his head out and nearly stepping across home plate as he looks an outside pitch into the catcher’s glove.