Bat flips are kind of dumb.
If you allow me to clear my throat and stick my nose up in the air…the act has always felt a bit contrived. A supposed instinctual celebration after obliterating a ball, yet so often it comes off as rehearsed, thus performed. Cousins with the asinine exclamation: Let’s go! And with added salt: Let’ f***ing go! Pair that caveman’s articulation with an emphatic throwing of a stick and you just guaranteed yourself the subject of an emoji-laden push notification from the MLB At Bat app.
Bat flips are the calling card of the “new school” with its brash showing-up of the pitcher making the fussy members of the “old school” clutch their pearls.