Why Are People So Upset at David Ross?
CLEVELAND, OH - NOVEMBER 02: David Ross #3 of the Chicago Cubs runs the bases after hitting a solo home run during the sixth inning against the Cleveland Indians in Game Seven of the 2016 World Series at Progressive Field on November 2, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 678125603 ORIG FILE ID: 620678922
David Ross got to live the dream of every little kid that grew up a baseball fan – hitting a home run in Game 7 of the World Series. But that’s not even it, that Game 7 was also the final game of his career.
I remember looming at my brother and saying how much we thought this was a good matchup for Ross, batting against Andrew Miller – Cleveland’s super reliever. We said this as in Game 1, Ross worked the count into his favor, going to 3-1, before Miller came back to strike him out on consecutive sliders.
Fast forward to Game 7, and again Ross worked the count into his favor.
It is what happens next that has made some fans from around the league mad.
David Ross with that interesting homerun celebration. ? #Game7pic.twitter.com/dIJkktmrAB
— Erick Fernandez (@ErickFernandez) November 3, 2016
Yes… people are actually mad about this. David Ross, as he’s done on occasions before, bumped, ah… we’ll say cups with teammates in celebration of this historic home run. Here’s just a few of the angry social justice warriors speaking out for the, kids…
What this celebration is about is – team. Athletes in pro sports spend a hell of a lot of time together. In the time they think up some really weird stuff, including penis bumping. Back on a team I played on we played in a tournament several hundred miles away. In doing so we all decided to shave our heads showing each other we were in it together. Week that wasn’t all…
On the trip someone got the idea that when we did something big during the tournament, hit a home run, make a great defensive play, or just have a big hit – we would bang a bat on our cups. Imagining an aluminum baseball bat being swung at my groin strikes fear in my mind now, but back then you never thought twice about it – we were a team.
That is all these guys were doing, while Ross might be 39 years old, and paying the last game of his career, he and the Chicago Cubs were acting like the 16 year old kids that fell in love with the game of baseball.
#DickBumpsForGrandpaRossy
It’s the grandpa hip bump, not a penis bump. He’s been doing it all year.
Thanks Ryan!!
Are you kidding me ppl are upset about that
Who cares?
Well, the guy that said he was a Cards fan could have stopped his reply, right there.
How lucky I have been involved in sports at so many levels. I have been openly gay when I created the Anita Bryant’s Husband is a homo-Sapien T-shirt via UPI and outed myself nationally in 1977. I have been involved in sports at many levels. I was the team’s representative in the first gay sponsored league in the country. We won the right to represent S.F. in the ’78 gay world series in N.Y. and was kicked out for having to many “non” gays on our roster. I gave AP the story, and it made the Walter Chronkite Evening CBS news and Paul Harvey’s broadcast. Mayor Moscone gave our team a Proclamation for it’s diversity over 30 years ago.
Those are clearly people who don’t watch much baseball. They do all kinds of crazy things to celebrate. As another commenter mentioned, it’s a hip bump that he’s done many times. All those easily offended, homophobic dudes can go sit down.
To me it looked hip to hip and others hip kinda hip slide….. come on people..Your life is so mmiserabl you have to find fault for stupid things??!! There should be a rule…if you want to be negative keep moving. There is so much crap in our world there really need to be CRAP FREE ZONES!!sports betting one of them!!