After the Brewers’ recent choreographed HR celebration which featured Prince Fielder as a bowling ball (that’s not surprising) and his fellow teammates as bowling pins, people are once again debating celebratory antics in baseball. In fact, Steve over at WW decided to bring the Yankees into the fold with the following:
The Yankees, this season, with all their walk-off wins, have been bordering on such a thing – with the home plate helmet toss and catch, Burnett’s cream pie facials, etc.
While I think the Brewers’ celebration was funny as a one time deal, I don’t think the Yankees have done anything “bordering” the Fielder moment, which was, to many, an unnecessary display of showmanship. The helmet toss and catch has been going on for a while now—I believe David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez made it famous—and Burnett’s cream pie facials occur well after the game is over. What we’ve seen from the Yankees isn’t comparable to what we witnessed in Milwaukee, is it?
I don’t think so, but maybe you disagree.
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Someone should remind Steve that baseball is a game, just another form of entertainment that is supposed to be fun. I’m sure people like him were up in arms over Joba’s fist pump too.
The one thing I didn’t touch on that bothered me a bit in Steve’s piece was the comment about how he doesn’t like his baseball to have a “hip-hop, punk’d and the like topping.” I grew up on hip-hop culture and think that comment wasn’t really necessary (for a number of reasons).
All he is saying is that he doesn’t like that. Why is that wrong? You can say that you like it; he can say that he doesn’t.
Basically what I think Chris is getting at is “Hip hop” clearly references black people and there mannerisms and Punk’d is whites with that certain type of stereotypes… he’s not really referring to the music it’s self.
The helmet tossing has been going on since at least 2006. I was there (one of about 2000 fans to sit through the long delay) when Melky hit his first walk-off and as the picture shows (no helmet) and article clearly states he tossed his helmet before crossing home plate. I beleive Ortiz started this and his stated reason is that it hurts when people bang him on the head after a walk-off. http://newyork.yankees.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060718&content_id=1563500&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=nyy
Yup. I believe that is correct, Joe.
Yeah but the Yankees seem to use the helmet as a bouquet sort of thing haha I love it but he wouldn’t be tossing to waiting Yankees fighting over it if it wasn’t more than it hurting.
standing o’neill you said it best. its a game. who cares ? u realize they play a GAME for a living. they can do whatever they want, its entertainment.
but oh wait, its the “yankees” they are too classy to do something like this.
maybe its just me cause I grew up watching WWF but its entertaining, they’re having fun.
Just as a quick note, did anyone see Luke Scott celebrating is HR against AJ in the last O’s series? I was at the game and it looked completely unprofessional from my vantage point. It was like the 4th inning and he acted like he had just won the game.
I was more mad at Aubrey Huff’s arm pump on Chamberlain a few months ago…
When I saw Huff’s celebration, I was pissed. That was too much because it singled out one guy.
That and it totally ignores the fact that everyone does it and a lot of them worse than Joba, Papelbon can’t even get a save with out doing an Irish jig.
The pies I have no problem with and the helmet thing I was fine with but the Fielder bowling ball thing was a little to NFL for me… Maybe I a alone and that’s fine if I am the only fuddyduddy I just don’t think a below .500 team should be celebrating a walk off win with a planned choreographed “end zone celebration” if you will should be taking place.. It’s one thing for an arm pump or something that is a clear display of emotion I have no problem with that but if you are coming up with routines in your off time just stop this isn’t the Bengals the Arod isn’t changing his name to Alex uno tres this isn’t the NFL it’s a gentlemen’s sport act professional.
The Fielder Bowling was a walk off win. The game was essentially over. Let the kids have some fun.
You are also at the bottom of your division and are under .500 what are you celebrating? Prince swinging for a HR padding his stats in dead season when you could have competed? It’s not professional and you owe your fans more than to make light of a terrible season where you disappointed everyone. If the Yankees did this last year toward the end of the season I would have been angry there was nothing to celebrate about last year terrible play all the way around. If they had walked off and did something spontaneous from emotion fine but they planned this and must have worked on it more than once in expectation of something that might not ever have happened, how about thinking about baseball and not celebrating.
They are celebrating a win. They know the war is lost, but if they cannot revel in their smaller victories, why even play? Why not just cancel every game between two non-competing teams between now and the end of the season?
And these are the Brewers, not the Yankees. That they have fielded a competitive team for the better part of two seasons is, for them, reason for some celebration.
Once again I could not disagree more! If you want to celebrate the win by rejoicing with your team mates that is fine but if you are planning and choreographing a skit or routine for certain event that might not take place is a complete disgrace to the game of baseball! You have lowered yourself to the T.O.’s and Chad Johnson’s of the world… Hell why not just let Alex Rodriguez pull out a cell phone from his pocket rounding first on his next HR and pretend to call someone, I bet he gets plunked his next at bat and then run out of town for his show boating. Celebrating with genuine enthusiasm and spur of the moment joy and emotion is what sports is about, planning a skit to draw attention to yourself and takes away attention from the win is plain disgusting. Congrats Prince Fielder you are the best player in the NL on a team with almost 20 more losses than wins and your team has enough time not winning to rehearse HR celebrations for a walk off wins but when the playoffs come around and you are sitting on your couch watching the Cardinals play deep into the playoffs take a look at Albert Pujols and see if he needs to pretend to be a bowling ball when he hits a walk off. The man has enough Hrs to put on his own one man play, he has 5 grand slams this year and at least 3 walk off HRs I wonder why he never detracted from the win with a show boating choreographed play at home plate… Probably because he doesn’t have to for people to get on sportscenter because the guy plain doesn’t care he wins!
Ha, they should have done it mid-game. That would have been awesome.
I agree with Chris, here. What are they celebrating? It looks bad when you’re not making the playoffs, but I guess it’s all they’ve got to cheer about.
This is the type of answer that would only come from a Yankee fan. We are a bit spoiled, so anything short of the World Series, or even making the playoffs, is a massive disappointment. The Brewers are a struggling, but they can’t enjoy a win? Should the fans not even show up and cheer or get excited when the team wins? Jeez again its a game, ennjoy each win, especially a walk off.
With this attitude I’m sure other teams fans were mocking the Yankees for taking a lap around the stadium after the final home game last year.
Celebrating is fine. Everyone does it. But when you basically have a choreographed routine where everyone pretends to be bowled over, it’s just showboating/taunting.