High school player unleashes Greatest. Bat Flip. EVER.
The bat flip is an art, and this high school player is an artist of the highest order.
The bat flip is an underrated art, a part of baseball that is hated by some, and loved by many. And like other arts of that kind, when a bat flipper achieves true greatness, the bat flip-loving nation knows it immediately.
That’s why Vice sports posted this vine of a high school player’s bat flip, which is a majestic achievement, the pinnacle of an art form.
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The bat goes up, flipping beautifully, and… does it come down? I don’t just mean in the video. I mean, does it ever come down? Or was it just absorbed into the cosmos, becoming a part of nature itself?
These are the big questions bat flipping begs us to ask. We don’t know who the high school player is, but do we need to? Does art have to be attached to a name for us to appreciate its worth?
I realize these seem like big questions for baseball. But bat flipping makes us ask the big questions of life. Some, like Madison Bumgarner and Gerrit Cole, hate the bat flip. But the bat flip should be celebrated. For some reason, many people are opposed to showing emotion in baseball, as though that’s some sort of way to show up the other team instead of just a normal, human way of celebrating something great? We should celebrate this as an art, and this high school student as a premier artist.
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