I’m not entirely sure how I feel about bat flips after home runs. I’m not offended by them. I also don’t want them to become commonplace and choreographed like NFL touchdown celebrations.
I do know how I feel about homers, however, which is that they can be confounding when you want to know objectively what happened.
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I am referring, of course, to team announcers.
What drove this home, so to speak, was a weekend review of the TV and radio broadcasts — from Chicago and Kansas City — of the bench-clearing dust-up in Wednesday’s Royals-White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field.