Grit Alarm

Stephanie Storm does a piece on Jamey Carroll full of enough grinder clichés to choke you.

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Thank God. I thought to get the offense going Shapiro had traded to get Trot Nixon back and sent Francisco back to Buffalo to make room.

by Fundamentals on May 20, 2008 4:47 PM EDT 0 recs

I think we may have underestimated the use of a guy like Trot Nixon.

-Erik

by drerikbrady on May 20, 2008 5:00 PM EDT up 0 recs

I actually thought we might’ve brought Nixon back somehow, too. It was a passing thought, but worrisome nonetheless.

Despite all of my best intentions, I have not, in fact, grown up to be a debaser.

by zempf on May 20, 2008 5:26 PM EDT up 0 recs

How about GRIT COACH? We’d be on the cutting edge of baseball staffing.

I tried to make Paul Reuschel my Avatar, but he didn't fit into the box.

by emd2k3 on May 20, 2008 11:39 PM EDT up 0 recs

He was very polite when he signed my scorecard the other day though. Looked for a good margin instead of scrawling all over it. I appreciate that in a utility guy.

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by AngG on May 20, 2008 11:50 PM EDT 0 recs

Exactly. Jeff Branson would have messed that page up!

by painaxl on May 21, 2008 9:50 AM EDT up 0 recs

I wonder what the Grit Alarm sounds like.

I have to imagine rubbing two pieces of sandpaper together would be a close approximation.

by steincat on May 21, 2008 4:42 PM EDT 0 recs

Nah … the sound of a piece of cardboard rubbing on Nixon’s five o’clock shadow should do the trick.

by talonk on May 21, 2008 4:54 PM EDT up 0 recs

I’m tired of grit. What would Dick Allen do? “I’ll hit three home runs today, if I feel like it.”

George Hendrick. Ty Cobb. Ozzie Smith. Were these grinders? Grit is overrated. Was Pete Rose grit? Grit is established as a noble quality by a man who had two doubles in 39 major league games. His career.

Jeff Branson was a better player than Jamey Carroll, right?

Talent will out. I can’t believe we have to listen to this nonsense from Wedge. Baseball is not a matter of grinding it out. It is a matter of hitting line drives into the gap.

by odradek on May 22, 2008 2:53 AM EDT 0 recs

Talent will out, probably, and the division hasn’t run away, yet, but I’ve never had more doubts about the core talent level. I mean, by the end of 2002, I was probably more confident of our future prospects than I am right now. If I don’t see some friggin’ regression from these hitters soon, I’m going to have to start assuming that it ain’t coming.

by Jay on May 22, 2008 9:00 AM EDT up 0 recs

I hear you about 2002. It’s odd that most of those who looked so bright five or six years ago have since gone south. As a team. I’m beginning to think this may not a coincidence, but indicative of a structural flaw. How else to explain it when ten guys go on the schneid?

by odradek on May 22, 2008 1:34 PM EDT up 0 recs