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Just a month ago, Dodgers ace Trevor Bauer threw to hitters during a spring training outing with one eye open “for practice.” Fast forward to last night, and Padres’ star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. pulled off an epic troll job while taking the reigning NL Cy Young winner deep — TWICE.
FERNANDO TATIS JR. HAS DONE IT AGAIN pic.twitter.com/8y9KMtRqMx
— MLB (@MLB) April 25, 2021
Here’s Bauer with the move:
Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer pitched with one eye closed vs. the Padres in Spring Training.
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) April 25, 2021
Fernando Tatis Jr. got revenge after he homered off of him tonight 👀 pic.twitter.com/qPjBdsZVZ6
But as I said, Tatis went deep twice, and the second troll job was better. Watch:
FERNANDO TATIS JR. HIT ANOTHER BOMB OFF BAUER AND HIT HIM WITH HIS MCGREGOR STRUT
— Barstool Sports (@barstoolsports) April 25, 2021
pic.twitter.com/rm7DWtqUZE
Bauer is known for celebrating a well-pitched inning with a signature “Conor McGregor” walk, and now it comes full circle. The most important take away, though, was post-game when Bauer was asked how he felt about Tatis’ gestures:
“I’m all for it. I think it’s important that the game moves in that direction and we stop throwing at people because they celebrated having some success on the field.” @BauerOutage on Fernando Tatis Jr.’s celebrations. pic.twitter.com/RdLMAWhQVD
— SportsNet LA (@SportsNetLA) April 25, 2021
This is what Major League Baseball needs (outside of pandering to liberal media)! Ratings are currently surging, and players showing their personalities like we saw from Tatis is a major reason why. And what’s hysterical is that Trevor Bauer is mostly known by our media as “annoying and unpredictable.”
Refreshing to see some vilified by members of our media and have those same enemies be a catalyst in the game’s revival. Yes, I said “revival” because Major League Baseball used to be fun to watch. It’s been a struggle to watch strikeouts, walks, and homers all game long, so interesting personalities unafraid to shine is a giant leap in the right direction. I highly doubt we see any retaliation out of the Dodgers dugout for tonight’s game. Our game is healing.
Not watching the latest woke league
No worries, James. Ratings are surging.
Fake news bro
Why would an employee of Outkick feel the need to show up a PAYING CUSTOMER for expressing his view? This happened at the Athletic begining late 2019. Look at the kind of dumpster fire they’ve become.
Ratings are surging? I thought the whole Atlanta deal was going to hurt them. What happened?
Turns out people don’t care.
People care must have hit a nerve here
I haven’t watched a MLB game in 20 years, but having an article about a player doing the “Connor McGregor walk “ being perfect for the sport tells you everything. This is like some Happy Gilmore sh!t. Is MLB really that bad that they need this ? Seriously asking…
Do you have the post moving the All Star game out of Atlanta numbers, Gary?
they literally just have to keep their mouths shut…all of them; my buddy asked me if i wanted to go to Wrigley in July….literally all years of my life I’m like ‘of course’..this year i honestly feel like i’m being bent over if i willfully give them my money, and Jason Heyward is a world serious hero who is woke front and center, and that is why i cant do it, him and all the others who get misinformed about some law that lets you vote on Sunday…got it
Shoot if it wasn’t for Bauer calling out the media…I would have never heard of him. His YT channel is pretty much the only baseball I watch now until MLB pull their heads out. He’s been pretty consistent with player celebrations should be allowed and throwing at batters for doing them is weak.
And true to form…he put out his reaction video today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcoZTm5u2xc
If you watch that whole video from Trevor he has no problems with the celebrations. But he said Tatis did break an unwritten rule that relates to cheating, he looked at Will Smith the catcher’s sign and where he set up. So he leaned over the plate and homered on a ball a foot outside. But he brings it up at the end. Most of it was judging the celebrations.
I couldn’t possibly care less about MLB, but let’s get one thing clear. That is not the Connor McGregor walk. He stole it from Vince McMahon, and it’s called the Vinny Mac power walk.
It was funnier when Bauer got all butthurt accusing Tatis of looking at signs. Come on man. Tatis promptly responded with Bauer’s head on a baby pic lol. If Tatis has been stealing signs, he’s been stealing the whole Dodger staff’s signs the last 2 years, because he’s hit 10 of his 46 career homers off LA pitching.