This idea that a pitcher should just grin and bear it if a batter hits a mammoth home run and celebrates by flipping his bat?
Mike Trout isn't having any part of it.
"As a pitcher, I'd be pretty upset," Trout said.
And would Trout say that such a demonstrative batter would be showing up the pitcher?
"It definitely would be," the 24-year-old said.
That puts the two best players in baseball at opposite ends of the decorum spectrum. Bryce Harper, 23, recently told ESPN that the sport was "tired" because young players were discouraged from expressing themselves with "flair.