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best homerun celebration ever

duan Mar 10 2010 09:00 AM

apparently Barry Zito plunked Prince Fielder the other day because of this. [url]http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6511913 baseball's whole "don't show people up" is such bullshit .

seawolf17 Mar 10 2010 09:04 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

Immortalized on Prince's Topps card this year also.

Ceetar Mar 10 2010 09:06 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

I love that celebration. Excellent stuff. They plunked him, he took his base. it's over. well, until next time. :-D

Edgy DC Mar 10 2010 09:08 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

Whether you believe in that "rule" or not, all bets should be off on a game-winner. Sorry guys, the game is over, and your feelings are no longer an issue. If Zito wants to send a message he really needs to plunk about 24 more guys.

attgig Mar 10 2010 09:34 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

you mean he plunked him with his 80 mph fastball? oh zito...

Ceetar Mar 10 2010 09:41 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

[quote="Edgy DC":9png7xfa]Whether you believe in that "rule" or not, all bets should be off on a game-winner. Sorry guys, the game is over, and your feelings are no longer an issue. If Zito wants to send a message he really needs to plunk about 24 more guys.[/quote:9png7xfa] yeah, especially when the game is over. Wasn't their a stupid NFL (not that they're aren't a zillion of these) rule issue this season where someone did something to the Giants after the half ended and since the quarter was over the Giants automatically had to decline the penalty?

John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 10 2010 09:54 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

[quote="duan"]apparently Barry Zito plunked Prince Fielder the other day because of this. [url]http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6511913 baseball's whole "don't show people up" is such bullshit .

By contrast, showing good sportsmanship isn't bullshit.

Frayed Knot Mar 10 2010 10:07 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

I'm generally against the trend towards more 'check-me-out - over-the-top' type of celebrations ... but this one was pretty funny and the game was over at that point. By the same token, Zito plunking Prince on the broad side of his broad body with a BP fastball in ST is just a not-so-subtle way of saying that the Giants remember the incident but it's not like there was a whole lot of menace behind it. If the details of this thing were different I could see getting more riled up by it but, as is, it's mostly a non-story IMO.

Edgy DC Mar 10 2010 10:16 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

It may be just a thiing, but eventually somebody is going to seriously hurt somebody else with a payback or purpose pitch, and it probably won't be a big-leaguer, but some kid in Rapid City just doing what the pros do.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 10 2010 10:18 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

This is still hilarious, and that may just be the best photograph I've ever seen on laminated cardboard ("french" playing cards included).

duan Mar 10 2010 10:57 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

[quote="John Cougar Lunchbucket"][quote="duan"]apparently Barry Zito plunked Prince Fielder the other day because of this. [url]http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=6511913 baseball's whole "don't show people up" is such bullshit .

By contrast, showing good sportsmanship isn't bullshit.

well, funnily enough, i suppose I'm a little hypocritical in the first place as I'm not mad on the whole set up celebrations as a rule (though that was a *VERY* good one), but joy in scoring is not bad sportsmanship, it's excitement.
I don't know, when I score a goal in football (it's rare enough mind) I'm so overcome with joy that I rarely know what to do but there's usually a lot of roaring and fist pumping and hugging. When Anderson (our Brazilian striker) scores he often does a little jig of delight (he does that a lot more then I do). But unless the games out of sight, every score is celebrated because it matters.

It's often said that scoring a goal is better then sex - now I don't think it's quite there, but you'd see why we get kinda happy about it.
Baseball runs are not QUITE as precious as football goals, but it's not like they're baskets either.

dgwphotography Mar 10 2010 11:02 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

[quote="duan":2xhkcwpo] It's often said that scoring a goal is better then sex [/quote:2xhkcwpo] Whoever said that just isn't doing it right

metsmarathon Mar 10 2010 12:09 PM Re: best homerun celebration ever

maybe you're just not a good enough goal-scorer.

Ashie62 Mar 10 2010 06:25 PM Re: best homerun celebration ever

Screw Shawn Estes

Edgy DC Mar 10 2010 08:10 PM Re: best homerun celebration ever

Exactly! If you think goal scoring is better than sex, it's because you haven't screwed Sean Estes.

duan Mar 11 2010 08:04 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

I didn't say that I thought that goal scoring was better then sex, just that it's a common enough assertion. But it is a great rush.

Benjamin Grimm Mar 11 2010 08:09 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

Kinda like shaking hands with Jerry Grote.

seawolf17 Mar 11 2010 08:10 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

[quote="Benjamin Grimm":1x70e4x0]Kinda like shaking hands with Jerry Grote.[/quote:1x70e4x0] But NOT Moises Alou.

metirish Mar 11 2010 08:55 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

Um , I for one didn't think the celebration was all that.

attgig Mar 11 2010 10:41 AM Re: best homerun celebration ever

I still like Lastings' high fives.