This High Schooler's Bat Flip More Than Likely Gave Every Baseball Fan Over 70 A Heart Attack

Walk off Grand Slam and bat flip to the moon @RyanSepede @Bharper3407 #MakeBaseballFunAgain @SportsCenter #SCtop10 pic.twitter.com/4gSt7pMjhe

— Austyn Shimkus (@AShimkus7) April 10, 2016

​Much like every other fun loving sport fan, I am pro-bat flip. Unfortunately for this kid, I am most definitely not pro-bat launch. I get that the situation called for a celebration. However, that didn't look like a celebratory act, It looked like a circus act that he bailed on halfway through. That bat heave was worthy of being the headliner at the world's least impressive talent show. He put more effort into tossing that bat as high as he could than he did into hitting the actual game winning home run. There is a distinct difference between "making baseball fun" and "making baseball a joke". These kids start taking advantage of the bat flip and they are going to cause a messy divorce between baseball and the bat flip. Fucking teenagers, give them an inch and they throw the lumber a mile. I mean, this act of showmanship made Jose Bautista's look reserved. If I'm on the opposing team that son-of-a-bitch is getting Goldberg speared as he rounds the hot corner. If Ryan wants a viral moment against my team he can get it when he's picking his teeth up off the base paths. Little bastard hit a something as rare as a walkoff grand slam and still managed to overshadow it with his bat flip. If that's not the beginning stages of the bat flip jumping the shark than I don't know what is. Want to know why baseball can't have nice things? Because they inevitably go too far and make the opinions of old drunken sailors like Goose Gossage look rational. 
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