I watched a lot of baseball this weekend. I watch a lot baseball period, and I do not understand what, when or why baseball celebrations have become so ridiculous. Do these guys just want run around in the underwear spraying beer and champagne on each other? Is that the point of the season? To act like their fraternity is having a gay slumber party night.
They look absolutely foolish. This year the Phillies, Dodgers, Rays, and Red Sox all have had two Champagne celebrations already and we haven't even started The Conference Championships yet. As much as I hate to say it I don't recall the Yankees acting like such asses when there are eight more games to win. Football, basketball and hockey generally do not over-celebrate after every stepping stone ( that's all it is, by the way) is reached. Why has baseball adopted this? They have three days off, go to a bar, get a few hotel rooms, act like you've been there before. Don't spray champagne and beer on your second baseman like he's the stuck up ho at the end of the Dr. Dre's "Nothin but a G thing" video.
Champagne should be sprayed under two circumstances in regards to sports (this actually goes for the gatorade bath too, I'm looking at you here football): winning the "world" championship, as in there are no more games to be played, all foes have been bested, you alone stand atop the mountain and are recognized as your sports supreme organization. Second, and this should be used incredibly rarely, your pathetic franchise has got their shit together after some astoundingly long period of futility (e.g The Rays making the play-offs this year, Red Sox finally beating the Yankees). That is it, there can be no other acceptable circumstance. Anything more is obnoxious and somewhat homo-erotic. They might as well run around and slap each others asses with towels during their "little parties".
Anyway, Go Red Sox....
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