And the Texas Rangers instantly become my least favorite team in professional sports. I’d root for them to lose their next game, but I’ll probably forget by next April.

I think he should get the bat kid to bring him a second bat at home plate that he can flip a second time once he crosses home. I mean, he’s Joey Bats, not Joey Bat.

This is...holy crap that kid will have the most legendary baseball memory in the history of baseball...

If you don’t want to be shown up do your job, get the out. Bautista won this battle so he can celebrate however he sees fit.

40 HR and a .913 OPS is a circus act?

Also in this case Deadspin isn’t being contrarian at all, 99% of the human population enjoyed that bat flip/home run/celebration. The other 1% being Rangers fans/players, grumpy 80 year old sports writers and a few burner kinja accounts.

That’s right, this one has somehow been bumped down to #1a in the Bautista awesome moments list for the year.

Kids like this kid:

I want to get serious with you all for just one second. I’m a person who went to university in Newfoundland because I was chasing a girl. I’m a person who married my ex-wife after knowing her for six weeks. If Jose Bautista’s bat flip proposed to me right now, we’d have four kids by Christmas.

After the play in the top of the inning, you knew when (not if) the Jays hit the go-ahead homer the flip/trot had a chance to be epic.

I’d say that it was about seven exclamation points followed by the flexing emoji, but it’s subjective.

I want to share this on Facebook and unfriend everyone that says anything bad about it. The Bautista Bat Flip is way better than any political litmus test. If you hate this, I probably hate you.

After everything that happened starting with the top of the inning, that wasn’t a bat flip, it was a period. A big ass in your face period. Finest Kind.

Eh, fuck you too, buddy!

“This is exactly like that time the whole gang quit the Peach Pit to go watch Wrestlemania and House-O had a ten hour blackjack streak

Hell, if that’s the list they may as well shut ESPN down.

Rembert, Baker, Lowe and Jacoby?

You used three sets of parentheses, but one period? You should not be in any school system.

Where would you even get that money from at age 5?