Post Game Celebrations - Thoughts From the TD Community

[NapoleonComplex]

Tonight was a fun win for the Twins in what has been a challenging season, to say the least. Dozier continued his home run tear, Buxton and Sano homered in the same game for the first time in their young career, and both played excellent defense. During post-game interviews, teammates made attempts to douse both Buxton and Dozier with Gatorade. This also happened 2-3 months ago. I can't remember what made that win exceptional, but it ended with a player having Gatorade splashed on him during a post-game interview. All I recall from the game was fallout from local sport writers, more especially Reusse. He ripped the Twins for not being focused, not having priorities straight, and IIRC, he basically wrote that Sano is a lazy, prima donna. Regardless of my memory, celebrating the game seemed to be offensive to our local sports writers/reporters/radio folks.

 

After the game I had a couple Twitter interactions with Barreiro. It started with a reply to a tweet he sent to LaVelle:

 

 

Which prompted this response: 

 

 

I replied with my brief opinion on the matter:

 

Reply from Barreiro didn't sit well with me ... still doesn't

 

My reply

 

 

 

So glad you made it this far .... my question for all of you: TD community, what are your thoughts on post-game celebrations in a lost season?

 

Against it?

For it?

Why?

[Badsmerf]

Why care? As long as they aren't disrespecting something or someone it shouldn't even be a talking point. The people that say act like you've been there before, have never been there. I didn't see it, haven't made twins games a priority lately. Don't waste your breath with barreiro.

[goulik]

After wins they like to prank people that had big performances while they are being interviewed. it's not like they are running onto the field and having a World Series win style dog pile. They aren't going crazy or anything. The on field celebration was reasonable ( smiles and high fives/hand shakes) and the rest is just comraderie. No harm in it.

[twinssporto]

Obviously Barreiro has never managed people.  If you don't celebrate or at least acknoledge good performance either in the office or ball field why show up at all?  So the season is lost...Should all of the players act sullen and sad after they do something good?  Maybe Barreiro forgot that the really good teams in baseball look like they are having fun and playing loose.  

 

I say let them celebrate!  What's the worst that can happen?  They may actually realize that winning is more fun and it could carry over into next year.  As a fan I would rather see the team throwing Gatorade around after a win than having a player remind me in an interview just how horrible the team actually is.

[Craig Arko]

I suppose they could play funeral dirges on that organ instead. Maybe ceremonially bury T.C. after every home game. Then everybody cries.

 

We're havin' some fun now.

[Riverbrian]

Talk show hosts and columnists are very skilled in the art of mountain making out of molehills.

[davidc3915]

It's a baseball game, not church!   All I care about is the number of times the Twins get to celebrate after a game.....

[USAFChief]

Twitter is evil.

[Boom Boom]

FIC- I watched 0% of this game. I'm looking at the box score and this was not a walk-off, or even a particularly exciting contest.

 

Unless the win clinches something, I don't think a good or even a mediocre team has a post game celebration for that. I won't tell the Twins how to react to a win, but their celebration just magnifies how bad they are, IMO.

[Platoon]

Tall show hosts and columnists are very skilled in the art of mountain making out of molehills.

And I might add, TD posters! . (Present company excepted, of course).

[Platoon]

Tall show hosts and columnists are very skilled in the art of mountain making out of molehills.

I missed this the first time........ Are short show hosts and columnists more likely to make molehills out of mountains?

[twinsnorth49]

Constantly amazed that people give a crap about this stuff. Why do celebrations receive such scrutiny?

 

Seriously, why do people care?

[twinsnorth49]

I missed this the first time........ Are short show hosts and columnists more likely to make molehills out of mountains?

According to Randy Newman.....yes.

[Winston Smith]

The entire thing seems silly, the celebrations and the reaction to them. However, I'm old and it used to be just shake hands and go drink beer.

Keep it classy, something like this:

http://guysgab.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Beer-In-The-Clubhouse.jpg

 

 

[Platoon]

The entire thing seems silly, the celebrations and the reaction to them. However, I'm old and it used to be just shake hands and go drink beer.

Keep it classy, something like this:

http://guysgab.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Beer-In-The-Clubhouse.jpg

We never shook hands, we had a beer in both of them!

[diehardtwinsfan]

On one end, I want them passionate about the game.  On the other, I want them to celebrate real accomplishments, of which last night's victory is hardly that.  That was one thing about the Yankees that I appreciated.  Win the division... no celebration. It's not the end game. Win the ALCS.  No celebration.  Not the end game. 

 

Go ahead and celebrate, but yes, let's make sure priorities are where they should be. This team isn't winning a series this season, so laud those accomplishments... but when 2017/18/19 or whatever rolls around, be focused on the big game.

[Shaitan]

I'm with diehard. I think the level of celebration on a walkoff on some mid-season game is excessive given the context. But I don't particularly care either way.

[big dog]

HEY- GET OFF MY LAWN!!!

 

and quit spraying Gatorade where I can see it!  You have to EARN the right to dump Gatorade on someone!

 

....naw, I don't get why it's such a problem.  Especially when there are real problems, like homelessness.

[Pardon My Dinger]

I am thrilled by any show of emotion of any kind from these guys. Take what you can get. It's fun.

[Riverbrian]

 

I missed this the first time........ Are short show hosts and columnists more likely to make molehills out of mountains?

 

Yeah

 

Thanks a bunch for quoting it before I could fix it and therefore locking it in place it for decades to come. 

[Craig Arko]

Yeah

 

Thanks a bunch for quoting it before I could fix it and therefore locking it in place it for decades to come. 

If that's the worst thing you have to worry about it's time for a party.

[Platoon]

Yeah

 

Thanks a bunch for quoting it before I could fix it and therefore locking it in place it for decades to come.

YW. Some day it will be viewed with the reverence reserved for proclamations such as "what, me worry" and "as God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly?"

[jimmer]

I'm a firm believer in celebrating wins over the White Sox.

[Squirrel]

 

I'm a firm believer in celebrating wins over the White Sox.

Me, too ... at least you don't have to live among them. Thankfully Kenny Williams moved out of my building years ago.

[twinsnorth49]

Yeah

 

Thanks a bunch for quoting it before I could fix it and therefore locking it in place it for decades to come.

Psst, you can edit anything, including quotes, therefore pretending as if nothing ever happened. Then for decades to come we can all wonder what Platoon has against short people.

[Squirrel]

 

The entire thing seems silly, the celebrations and the reaction to them. However, I'm old and it used to be just shake hands and go drink beer.

Keep it classy, something like this:

http://guysgab.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Beer-In-The-Clubhouse.jpg

If that's quality beer there, I really disapprove of this kind of celebrating. It's wasteful. If it's cheap beer, okay, carry on.

[Broker]

Let them celebrate if they want. I don't really care one way or the other.

[jctwins]

It's immature as hell, and a symptom of the "look at me" social media environment these guys are being brought up in.

 

Does the phrase "Act like you've been there" mean anything any more?

[TheLeviathan]

I normally really like Barreiro, but he keeps falling on this sword and it's tired.  I could give two craps about what the players do after wins and losses.  I care what they do to make wins or losses on the field.

 

Chief is right, we'd all be better off if Twitter stopped existing.  The sum whole of humanity would be better for it.  

 

 

[theBOMisthebomb]

Let the kids celebrate.  It's a sign of the times and the culture today's player has grown up with.  It isn't necessarily good or bad.  It doesn't matter anyway, memories and news cycles are so short in today's world nobody remembers anyway.  As long as you don't disrespect the opponent, who cares?  And, these types of celebrations are seen as standard and mandatory in today's game.