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Trea Turner Was Announced As The Winner Of The Nationals 'Heart & Hustle' Award, Hours Before Being Benched For His Lack Of...You Guessed It...Hustle

7/25/2018

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Maybe not Trea Turner‘s best effort here. pic.twitter.com/TgqdkQjxpR

— Rudy Gersten (@DCBarno) July 24, 2018

The Heart & Hustle Award is the gift that keeps on giving today. pic.twitter.com/ExVlDhPS6I

— Justin Havens (@jayhaykid) July 24, 2018

Perfect. Just absolutely, positively perfect. Don't get me wrong, this amazingly ironic sequence of events would be awfully embarrassing if the 'Heart & Hustle' award wasn't only an accomplishment in the same way that Valentine's Day is a holiday. However, as made clear by the nonsensical timing of its announcement, it's basically just some made-up achievement that only stands to make those that try overly hard look good. 

Therefore, much like a single person watching a couple stroll up to a restaurant without reservations on the night of February 14th, I enjoyed the hell out of seeing Trea Turner make an absolute mockery of both himself and some fabricated institution. I highly doubt the timing of the vote tallying was on his mind when he decided to leave no illusion of effort in his post-bunt pout down the wrong baseline, but the awkwardness that ultimately resulted from it sure did highlight how moronic it is to declare the official candidates for a season-long honor in July.

They don't enjoy much, but I bet even the type of baseball traditionalists that would require the use of a defibrillator after seeing the Nationals' shortstop disrespect the game could appreciate the paradoxical nature of him being acknowledged for playing it the right way shortly thereafter. After all, there's nothing traditional about some concocted candidacy that was created in 2005 to, presumably, encourage professional athletes to give it their all...for the first 100 games of a 162 game season. 
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