http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/steve_duin/index.ssf?/base/news/ 106068946935730.xml 之前的文章里有稍微提到，STEVE DUIN把完整的过程写出来，大意是： Wallace 在机场"至少"拒绝了两个孩子要求签名，惹恼的孩子的家长， 孩子的家长寄信给STEVE DUIN。 不过这种事情，只看到球迷的反应，至於情况到底如何？Wallace 还尚 未表达意见。就姑且看看吧！ :) ============================================================================== Leave the loser alone to suffer in silence 08/12/03 STEVE DUIN He's a sullen jerk. He has no class, no grace, no empathy. He represents almost everything that's wrong in pro sports, the details of which have been chronicled in these pages for years. Yet for all that, people still march up to the Trail Blazers' Rasheed Wallace with pens, hearts and expectations in hand, begging him for a small piece of his miserable self. While Wallace and his wife were waiting in the Honolulu airport for a flight to Portland on July 26, at least two parents and their children approached him, asking for an autograph. Wallace blew them off, they said. What a surprise. That's what Wallace does. That's who Wallace is. I say "at least two parents" because two have written letters to The Oregonian. One was printed July 30. Christy Pulley's letter is next to my keyboard. Hers is a more compelling story, although she and I may have reached different conclusions on what it says about Wallace and the rest of us. The Pulley family was returning from vacation that Saturday. Pulley's 11-year- old son, Chris, glimpsed Wallace when they checked in. Because the Hawaiian Air flight was delayed, the boy had three hours to get psyched. He even bought a special permanent marker. If her son recognized Wallace, Pulley didn't. Oh, she recognized the name, but she couldn't have pinpointed his transgressions. She didn't know whether he was the Blazer who is forever smoking dope or the Blazer who threatens referees or the Blazer with the domestic abuse rap. She saw only an NBA player. She saw only the stars in her child's eyes. When the 11-year-old approached Wallace, she said, Wallace shook his head and waved the kid away. The boy was disappointed. A nearby flight attendant, Pulley said, was "incredulous." And Mom? "I lose it," Pulley wrote. "I can't believe how insensitive, how arrogant, how spoiled this man is whom my son has walked around and thought of exclusively for an entire afternoon. How dare he hurt my little boy's feelings when all my son did was adore him and want a simple autograph to show all his friends and keep forever." As Pulley admitted Monday, she was reacting emotionally, not thoughtfully. "The funny thing about this," she said, "is he (Chris) wasn't as affected as I was. I think I projected my feelings onto him. My adrenalin was running so high." Which explains, I suppose, what happened next. Pulley confronted Wallace in the gate area, telling him, "You just broke my little boy's heart." ("I'm on vacation," she said Wallace replied. "If I'm going to do that, I'm going to break my wife's heart.") And she got "right in his face" on the plane, throwing a crumpled photo and the black marker at his feet and yelling, "Shame on you." At that point, Hawaiian Air escorted Pulley off the plane, leaving her family to fly home without her. "While Ms. Pulley may believe that she did not act in a threatening manner," the airline's Rose Harman wrote in a letter to the family, "the other passenger felt threatened, and the flight attendants believed her actions to be abusive." Let's sort through the wreckage. At least two families approached Wallace as he returned from vacation. If you are of a mind to be charitable, you could argue he decided that he'd have another two dozen in his face if he signed even a single autograph. But why is anyone still asking for one? Wallace is bad news, and that's old news. Why are any parents still allowing their kids to approach him, thus giving Wallace permission to dismiss them? He may be traded, but Wallace isn't going to change. Because he refuses to grow up, his "fans" have to. They have to stop chasing him around airports. They have to stop treating the guy's signature like a keepsake. Wallace hasn't earned our respect, much less our adoration. Accept it. Get over it. Share this stunning revelation with your child. It will be a lot easier if the poor kid figures it out now, rather than standing embarrassed and disappointed in an airport with a permanent marker and a lasting stain. --

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