But I'll say one thing about your comparison to other sports......

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

I don't. I'm not sure why this Anderson thing is getting so much play. Guys flip their bats or stand in the box and watch all the time. I hardly even notice it.

But I'll say one thing about your comparison to other sports. The other sports have much more physical contact. Intimidation and physicality are key to those games. That isn't the case with baseball. It's not about dominating another person physically. I understand a basketball player being pumped up after he dunks over a guy or blocks his shot or a football player being jacked up after a sack. A bat flip is more like Magnus Carlsen leaping out of his chair and screaming, "CHECKMATE, MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!"

No, I'm not. Actually WINNING The Masters is a lot different than hitting a home run.

Now, if you hit a World Series walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th inning against of the league's premier closers, then we might have a comparison

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Here is something we can all agree on.

It's bullshit that Tim Anderson was kicked out of that game. It's inexplicable that he is suspended one game.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

No I think it’s equivalent to Tiger pumping his fist after a birdie. That analogy fits within your above criteria as well and isn’t ridiculously exaggerated like your Carlsen example.

It's come out basically over the last ten minutes.

Except Tiger isn't humiliating anyone except possibly the course designer who likely isn't present.

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White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson has been suspended for one game because of language used during the benches-clearing incident with Kansas City, sources familiar with situation tell ESPN. Brad Keller, who hit Anderson with a pitch, has been suspended for five games, per sources.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

And neither is the baseball player!

Well, he is. I think you'd understand better if you were a pitcher standing on a mound in front of 20,000 people while some guy showed you up. Hell, you get furious when leash humiliates you with a one-liner.

There isn't 20,000 at a Sox game!

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

:lol: well you know that’s not true. I think it’s clear pitchers are sensitive babies and you grew up around the sport so you’ve come to accept that as just part of the game. Shit happens in life. Sorry, I don’t believe in safe spaces and trigger warnings for coddled pitchers.

Not a big baseball fan, so no opinion either way.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Take too breaths before you post, Mike.

I don't know why you're focusing on the pitchers being babies. Batters get angry too and slide into second spikes high. I don't think a pitcher should show up a batter by stalking around the mound or skypointing like a six year old who struck out a guy for the first time either. But whatever. It is what it is. And again, I really don't care. I just don't find it entertaining. I don't think it's "cool" that Bryce Harper poses after a homer.

Again, difference in degree, not kind. The question is whether it’s ok to celebrate. None of us should be declaring ourselves the arbiters of WHEN it’s ok.

Really, the question is the form of celebration, which then leads to all these "cultural" ancillaries

Also if you fuck someone like they are a millionaire they might go try to be one.

Weird, I see Dolphin looking in my asshole

It is perfectly acceptable for the batter to be happy just as it is perfectly acceptable for the pitcher to be not be happy.

Neither would be happy when the umpire does histrionics when calling a ball, strike or out.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Well, I think the "cultural" aspects narrative is just something these "woke" websites like Deadspin (and dan bernstein) have promoted and overplayed. And I think it's a form of racism in itself, sort of a cousin to the "noble savage" archetype, in this case the "joyful Latino ballplayer". There are plenty of black and Latino players who put their heads down and run to first and plenty of white players who stand in the box, flip their bats, and/or strut.

Ump at my son's high school game did a Macho Man thing after every strike..."OOOOOOOOOOHHH Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"