Why Do Baseball Players Celebrate So Much???

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Getting a base hit or homerun is also not easy. But the culture of baseball discourages or punishes celebrations for that. The question is valid...
 

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I don't really see the issue with it. That said it is rather ironic that the sport that is so anti-celebration celebrates every time they advance.
 

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I don't really see the issue with it. That said it is rather ironic that the sport that is so anti-celebration celebrates every time they advance.
Baseball is not anti-celebration. A good chunk of players stay fronting like any celebration = you getting shown up, but it's not as if MLB is handing out fines and penalties for celebrating. There's a lot more fist pump spinaroonis than there used to be
 

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Baseball is not anti-celebration. A good chunk of players stay fronting like any celebration = you getting shown up, but it's not as if MLB is handing out fines and penalties for celebrating. There's a lot more fist pump spinaroonis than there used to be

That's what I was referencing.
 
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making the playoffs in MLB is extremely hard, 10 teams out of 30, and 2 teams are eliminated right off the bat(pun intended) in a single ''do or die'' wild card playoff game. So really its 8 teams out of 30 teams, that make the actual playoffs to play, you know, actual playoff series.

Baseball season starts from february, spring training to early november for the good teams.
For 20 teams, its end october 1st. Its a long ass, grinding season and every opportunity to celebrate after playoff series wins is welcomed.

Winning your division in mlb (al east, nl west, etc) = making the second round in NBA and NHL

Winning the wildcard game in MLB = winning the wildcard playoffs in NFL
 
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There's very FEW playoff slots in baseball, before the play-in wild card thing it was even harder.

How do baseball fans view teams that make the playoffs but lose in the first round? Do you look back on those squads and say "damn they were great, they made the playoffs, we need those guys back" do baseball players and managers get a lot of credit just for leading their teams to the playoffs?

In other sports just making the playoffs and losing is seen as being average or underachieving...
 

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Only thing I wouldn't celebrate is making the playoffs just for the one wild card game u play the following day or two

U do all that celebration just to go out like the Mets and Orioles did after one game
 

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I'm not tryna hear that playoff excuse. It's the "participation trophy" culture that baseball has built where they tell you to celebrate everything.

walkoff hit in April-celebrate
walkoff error in May-celebrate
walkoff HBP in June-celebrate
walkoff sac fly in July-celebrate
walkoff balk in August-celebrate
Let's watch the worst team in baseball go crazy over a meaningless ass game in Late September against some other scrub team like it's game 7 of the world series. Gatorade coolers, water bottles, pies to the face, chocolate syrup, dirt, everything
Clinch going to the fukking Wild card game-celebration and get a shirt
Clinch the Wild card game-celebration and a shirt
Clinch the division series-celebration and a shirt(this one is horrible)

It doesn't bother that much, but it is a bit annoying, and it's overdone to the point of looking forced, and it takes some luster off of when a team actually does win something, because every team does it now.
 

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they do all this celebrating, yet if u celebrate a homerun or look at it 2 long the pitcher is throwing 90 miles at your head :dame:
 
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