Justin Upton's latest homer prompts tweet of the week

The Arizona Diamondbacks wanted to get rid of <strong><a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/u/uptonju01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com" target="_blank">Justin Upton</a></strong> in the worst way. He simply did not fit into <strong><a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/gibsoki01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com" target="_blank">Kirk Gibson</a></strong> and the front office's philosophy of gritty guys digging deep for wins. The Diamondbacks wanted gamers. They wanted guys with dirty uniforms and so on and so forth. We can all make fun of those ideals if we want. Most of us know that it is talent and performance that wins, not ideals or scrap or grit or whatever it is you want to call it.<br /><br />The Atlanta Braves have to be thrilled about the Diamondbacks strategy. Upton has been a monster for them. He has helped make them now the team to beat in the NL East.<br /><br />So that brings us to this <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbernhardt/status/324339734413471744" target="_blank">tweet</a> by Jonathan Bernhardt. It was truly an epic tweet and sums it up for most of us rational thinkers about baseball, but only in a dead-on, dripping with sarcasm way that most of us do not have enough grit or scrap or whatever to come up with something as perfect as this:<br /><br /><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Justin Upton's hit 8 home runs? I'm not impressed. <strong><a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/p/pradoma01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&utm_source=direct&utm_medium=linker-www.blogger.com" target="_blank">Martin Prado</a></strong> said the Right Things 8 times during BP today.<br />— Jonathan Bernhardt (@jonbernhardt) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonbernhardt/status/324339734413471744">April 17, 2013</a></blockquote>Beautiful. Simply beautiful. That tweet had some dirt on its uniform right there.<br /><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>

Justin Upton's latest homer prompts tweet of the week

The Arizona Diamondbacks wanted to get rid of Justin Upton in the worst way. He simply did not fit into Kirk Gibson and the front office...

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