Florida Baseball Player Is An Instant Legend For This Home Run Celebration

Now this is how it’s done when you’re dealing with an agent of the Ump Show. 

Pure genius on the part of Florida’s Jac Caglianone after mashing a grand slam dong-piece in the 8th inning to bury Georgia and win the series. He knew the home plate ump was watching for anything excessive, so he changed gears. The quick trigger of the umpire was neutralized by his downplayed celebration, directly calling out the ump's pettiness but doing it in a cheeky way where he couldn't be tossed. Chef’s kiss! 

No high fives, only a few down low - wouldn’t want to embarrass anyone. Also no smile from him, no boasting. He went fully catatonic with it. Rigid, robotic movements only. An expert-level direct response to this: 

Big strikeout in the 8th inning and the pitcher got amped up. Sorry to celebrate even a little bit. The video zoomed out but it certainly didn't look that serious. Either way, the umpire felt the need to follow him down the first base path and make a ceremony of it. Really great stuff, such a power move. No place in the game for appalling behavior like that. 

Is that what these self-important umpires want the game to look like? Far be it for a college player to have any visible, outward joy while he's playing a baseball game. I loved Caglianone's mindset and awareness, he knew exactly what he was dealing with behind home plate so he zeroed everything out and power walked back to the dugout showing no real signs of life. 

Big picture: there was one inning of baseball left with a 7 run Florida lead and that pitcher might've been coming out of the game anyway, so who really cares? The only outcome of this was a God-tier HR celebration and the umpire making himself look like a colossal loser.    

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