http://www.futureredbirds.net/2010/11/22/awards/ Baseball's Future in the Gateway City Fri, 17 May 2013 00:09:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.futureredbirds.net/2010/11/22/awards/comment-page-1/#comment-25548 mattybobo Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:39:25 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=6226#comment-25548 Isn’t Scott Rolen gritty? He dives for the baseball and gets dirty. He has that “blue collar white guy” look to him. He works hard and doesn’t make much of a show of himself other than his excellent play (and his feuds with managers, oops).
Anyway, I think excellent players can be gritty, it’s just that people don’t have to talk about their grittiness as much due to the fact that they’re actually very good at baseball. The bad players who are gritty don’t have anything going for them but their grittiness.

]]> http://www.futureredbirds.net/2010/11/22/awards/comment-page-1/#comment-25546 Clark Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:31:14 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=6226#comment-25546 I always thought grit meant like courage, fearlessness, or guts, which no offense to baseball players, I don’t really seeing any player being gritty. Tough on the otherhand, players like Cal Ripken Jr. and Albert Pujols who play through injury even though they are ridiculously talented, they are elite players that it can be applied to.

]]> http://www.futureredbirds.net/2010/11/22/awards/comment-page-1/#comment-25543 Gruntosaurus Mon, 22 Nov 2010 20:23:09 +0000 http://www.futureredbirds.net/?p=6226#comment-25543 A three-word answer: Cal Ripken, Junior.

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