Minnesota Twins Butthurt Over Cleveland's Jose Ramirez Pimping His 8th Career Home Run

The Minnesota Twins are currently clinging to a 3.7% chance at making the postseason. They’re 1.5 games out of the second Wild Card spot with 4-games remaining in the regular season. So dropping the second game of their double-header against the Cleveland Indians on Wednesday was not ideal.

Even less ideal was the behavior of Jose Ramirez who had the audacity to admire his 3-run shot off Ricky Nolasco in the bottom of the 8th, after the Twins intentionally walked the batter in front of him to face him. Sure, his bat flip was completely unnecessary and way over the top, but the reaction of the Twins bench and manager Paul Molitor was equally dumb. Baseball culture loves to throw around “act like you’ve been there before”-type platitudes, but the second someone doesn’t, the floodgates open for everyone else to lose their minds.

Ramirez – or one of his teammates – will likely be thrown at by a Twins pitcher tonight to send a message.  The Unwritten Rules of Baseball clearly state that if a message needs to be sent, it will be at the expense of a free baserunner in the middle of a playoff race.

Of course, the Unwritten Rules of Baseball special committee on nitpicking might also want to review what appeared to be a stolen base by the Twins with a 5-run lead in the 7th inning during Game 1 of the double-header.

Huh. That’s right around the arbitrary line in the sand that somebody once drew in the early 1900’s.