Coming to a college baseball game near you
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Won't be long before a taunting bat toss after a HR or a pitcher taunting a batter after a K gets tossed in an SEC game, it's coming!
There's definitely a difference when the flip comes with the movement of a hard swing. Maybe you ecsentuate it. Whatever. Throwing the bat is not a bat flip.
I'm all for "having fun," but this wasn't that.
I'm all for "having fun," but this wasn't that.
I thought the coach acted worse than the player, they both deserved to be ejected. Gustavus Adolphus College D-3 Lutheran College in Minnesota. They won their league 26-12.
I'm good with it. These guys learn in 8U that you dont toss, throw or flip a bat behind you. You'll be called out if you do it twice at that age and the umpires will show you exactly where you can do that crap down the first base line... at your own risk.
That isn't a bat flip. He legit threw the thing back across the field.
THIS is a bat flip.
THIS is a bat flip.
That one was egregious, but I've watched enough commentary on this to know they are going to implement some rules for any taunting (bat flips, gestures, yelling, etc.) directed at the opposing player for SEC baseball in the near future.
Bat flip? Okay.
Let's focus on two items:
- Taunting - unsportsmanlike. 'nuf said.
- Safety - be careful how you "disengage" with the bat so as not to injure anyone.
If all players acted like adults and respected the game and the competition, we wouldn't have to enact legislation. And I would add the pitch clock as well.
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Don't remember this one, Gamecocks vs Texas.
Should have been thrown out of the game though - uncalled for in the game of baseball!
Should have been thrown out of the game though - uncalled for in the game of baseball!
I remember it, and I think Melendez was warned after that flip.