After 47 long years, Clint Hurdle and beets come to an agreement: He will eat them once again

For more than 17,000 days, not a single red, fibrous beet had entered Clint Hurdle's mouth. Tuesday night, he had to reset the counter to zero.

At the MLBPAA's Legends for Youth Dinner Tuesday, Hurdle was awarded the Brooks Robinson Community Service Award for his work with the Prader-Willi Association. And guess what just happened to be on the menu for the evening?

Thus Hurdle and the beets experienced their own personal détente.  

We're not sure who or what cause Hurdle to forgo beets for more years than any of his players have been alive, but he seems to have made peace with the vegetable:

"God bless you, you will make my mother extremely happy. I had not eaten a beet in 47 years 'til tonight, 'cause I don't have to anymore, but I felt I needed to tonight," Hurdle said. "I ate beets."

"I ate beets."

That, friends, is a man living his best life. Rumor has it that if you offered Hurdle beets before Tuesday, his reaction was something like this:

But no more. 

We'll have to wait until Opening Day to see what sort of effect Hurdle's new beets-included diet will have on the Pirates, but we hear that he'll also be ending his moratorium on bears and Battlestar Galactica this offseason, too.