May 05, 2004
Talent vs Hustle
Jim Caple of ESPN's Page 2 has an article up today about players who hustle vs. players who are talented. We can all agree that given two players of equal talent, the player who hustles is the more desirable of the two. The problem arises when you have to choose one over the other.
While I think hustle is great, it is in no way a replacement for actual talent. ESPN.com readers apparently think otherwise, at least according to polls:
ESPN.com has polled readers a couple times with a certain line of questioning. In one of these polls, we asked readers to pick the worst offense a baseball player could commit, and more respondents (21 percent) said not hustling was worse than betting on baseball (19.5 percent). In another poll, we asked what the worst offense in all sports was, and more readers (18 percent) said not hustling was worse than taking steroids (14.9 percent).Pretty astounding, really.
Comments
Call me picky, but I prefer players who are both talented AND who hustle.
Posted by: Randy - May 5, 2004 at 11:27 PM EST
"We can all agree that given two players of equal talent, the player who hustles is the more desirable of the two."
Of course we all prefer that, Randy. The point of the article is that, given one or the other, talent is far more preferable.
Posted by: Eric Simon - May 6, 2004 at 09:29 AM EST
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