Originally Posted by
smootness
I'm so tired of people defending hitters acting like massive dickheads.
Saying, 'Pitchers don't want any hint of emotion or celebration' is so disingenuous. No one has ever suggested that. No one gets upset when a hitter is happy and celebrates the fact that he hit a HR. But there is an obvious difference between celebration out of happiness and deliberately going for overkill just because you can.
And the argument of, 'If you don't like it, don't give up a HR' is the kind of thing 3rd graders say. 'If you don't like when I toss the Connect 4 board across the room and tell you I'm going to have my way with your mom tonight, then you shouldn't have lost, loser.' I seriously doubt these people would accept a pitcher telling the hitter to 'suck it' and then prancing and stomping all over the batter's box after a strike out and then saying, 'If you don't like me doing it, should have thought about that before you struck out.' There is a difference between being happy and celebrating because of that and just rubbing it in because you're a dick.