George F. Brett!

[Edgy MD]

Royals, winners of just four of their last 23 games, have added two new batting coaches, one of whom is the baddest hitter in organizational history, one of the greatest ever, and legendary redass, George Brett.

[Lefty Specialist]

Played the 1980 World Series with painful hemorrhoids, hence the redassery.

[Edgy MD]

It takes a village to hold him back.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Edgy MD wrote: It takes a village to hold him back.

Hard to look tough in powder blue. Brett pulls it off.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

Going forward, all Royals' batters must have thick pine tar applied to their bats.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Water.

[Edgy MD]

Words that ballplayers use as if everybody uses them, but nope, only ballplayers use them:

• Redass
  
• Horseshit

The rest of society has perfectly common and meaningfully descriptive terms to represent these concepts, but for decades ballplayers just hang on to these two. And I think it's probably for the best. You tell a player what he's done is a bullshit move, he's probably furious (he'll get the red ass). You tell him it was a horseshit move, he'll be hurt but hear you out.

Similarly, George Brett overhears one ballplayer telling another "That Brett can be a real redass," he thinks, "I guess that's true --- and it works for me but maybe I should look at whether it's helping the team."

If he hears the same guy saying "Brett can be a real asshole," it's almost more or less the same thing, but that guy's gonna die.

[Frayed Knot]

David Cone will be happy.