Jose Bautista’s infamous bat flip can either go two ways: highly favored or highly criticized. Goose Gossage is the latest player to comment and rip this bat flip apart.
I dare you to not get goosebumps as you see Jose Bautista’s infamous 2015 Post-season home run that resulted in that amazing bat flip. Bautista’s bat flip is exactly what the sport needs. The MLB is facing a drop in fans, numbers, engagement, etc and something has to be done pronto. When one player celebrates this victory we frown? How does this make any sense? But yet, celebrations are okayed in the NFL, NBA, and NHL.
Old school Yankee pitcher Goose Gossage decided to chime in but in the most aggressive of ways.
Speaking to ESPN.com’s Andrew Marchand, Gossage singled out Toronto Blue Jays star Jose Bautista as being bad for baseball: “Bautista is a f–king disgrace to the game. He’s embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. [Yoenis] Cespedes, same thing.”
So shall we celebrate victories with tea and crackers? Absolutely not. However, don’t think Jose Bautista isn’t paying attention. He took it to Twitter to respond in the best of ways.
"If you ain't got no haters you ain't poppin'…" Rico Richie
— Jose Bautista (@JoeyBats19) March 11, 2016
Gossage wasn’t done though.
The game is becoming a freaking joke because of the nerds who are running it. I’ll tell you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the f— they went and they thought they figured the f—ing game out. They don’t know s—.
A bunch of f—ing nerds running the game. You can’t slide into second base. You can’t take out the f—ing catcher because [Buster] Posey was in the wrong position and they are going to change all the rules. You can’t pitch inside anymore. I’d like to knock some of these f—ers on their ass and see how they would do against pitchers in the old days.
Much like Bleacher Report stated, his complains sound similar to that of an old grandpa.
So let me get this straight… You’re considered a nerd for knowing a few stats? And since when is that a bad thing? Yes the game has changed since his time but it’s changed for the greater good of the sport and still has a lot of change to go.