I love it too.
Baseball is no place for hotdog show offs who wanna flip their bats.
My view on “professionalism” is to act like you’ve done it before, act like you expect to succeed. At the office, when some code I write works, or a client is pleased with my work, there’s no need to put on a show - I expect my code to work, I expect of myself to execute projects that please my clients. It’s what I do.
So most touchdown dances are really stupid. Can’t stand it.
On the other hand, hitting a decisive clutch home run in the deciding game of a post season series... well, that’s something few people ever do. It’s the kind of stuff we dreamed about when we were kids - and, ya, still dream about ; )
So I’m OK with Joe Carter going nuts in 1993, and I’m OK with Bautista’s bat flip on that really special occasion.
Odor should have punched out Andrus for those 3 - THREE!! - errors that set up the home run. Or punched out Dyson for giving up the gopher ball. Like David Price says, “make better pitches”.
Andrus makes 3 errors in a row, and Odor punches out Bautista for a bat flip? Man, what’s goin’ on in Odor’s attic?