Baseball is starting to become divided as a sport in a very particular way. Some fans are all for bat-flips, trash-talk, and other in-game antics. Others believe baseball is a game of tradition, and that players should respect that.
For the latter, there are a few players that REALLY irritate them. Yasiel Puig, Jose Bautista, and… perhaps more than anyone else… Ronald Acuna Jr.
The Atlanta Braves slugger has made it known that he’s all for the swagger. Recently he’s tossed some pretty epic bat flips, and despite receiving some expected backlash, he doesn’t appear to be slowing down on the swag-o-meter.
After hitting a 1st inning bomb against the Miami Marlins in Game 1 of NLDS action, Acuna once again gave his bat a little extra trajectory.
His very next at-bat, the Marlins appeared to want to set a new tone. On an 0-1 count, Acuna was beaned by Sandy Alcantara with a 97 MPH fastball.
Do you think that beaning convinced Acuna to change his ways in the slightest? Judging by his latest Instagram post, absolutely not.
Acuna taking a page out of Irish UFC fighter Conor McGregor’s book with that one. “The Notorious” Conor McGregor famously screamed this quote into a microphone following his UFC 205 victory over Eddie Alvarez.
WARNING: NSFW language.
