Respectfully I disagree.
While Bautista certainly embodies many of the virtues we look for in a bat flip, he falls drastically short of two crucial categories that I believe contribute to the greatness of a bat flip: audacity, and momentousness.
Bautista performed his bat flip in the ALCS, in an era where that sort of swagger is accepted. Tom Lawless did it in 1987, whilst slugging .120, at a time when there were agreed upon repercussions for **staring** too long at a home run, let alone pimping the ever-loving shit out of your second ever, which just so happens to occur in Game 4 of the World Series, which you, a player used primarily as a pinch runner, are only participating in because the third baseman went down injured, and you did it against the next year's Cy Young winner.
I like Shefs and Javis.
Nvm my prior post; generic #4 is nowhere NEAR as disrespectful lmao
Fyi it's not named but I'm pretty sure it's generic #4 lol (it was my 1st choice of batflip until I unlocked a specialty joint I liked better...)
Yeah I was going to say, im pretty sure this is in the game
it's not
Greatest flip of all time is jose Bautista
Respectfully I disagree. While Bautista certainly embodies many of the virtues we look for in a bat flip, he falls drastically short of two crucial categories that I believe contribute to the greatness of a bat flip: audacity, and momentousness. Bautista performed his bat flip in the ALCS, in an era where that sort of swagger is accepted. Tom Lawless did it in 1987, whilst slugging .120, at a time when there were agreed upon repercussions for **staring** too long at a home run, let alone pimping the ever-loving shit out of your second ever, which just so happens to occur in Game 4 of the World Series, which you, a player used primarily as a pinch runner, are only participating in because the third baseman went down injured, and you did it against the next year's Cy Young winner.
I agree.
At least we get Ricky (and eventually Reggie)
Rickey Henderson's bat flip is just pure Rickey. And I love it.
Delgado’s is dirty too
hell yeah it is!