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The last time the Rangers played the Blue Jays …
- Updated: May 2, 2016
5:30 PM ET
… this happened:
Look, let me put this as tactfully as possible: Baseball is so dumb that it won’t surprise me if something does happen Monday night when the Texas Rangers take on the Toronto Blue Jays. It doesn’t matter that Jose Bautista’s home run happened in 2015. Baseball history is full of stories of retribution, stories treated as part of the honorable code of the game.
Will the Rangers throw at Bautista, seven months after his infamous bat flip in Game 5 of the Division Series? It’s on everyone’s mind:
Rangers can retaliate against Jose Bautista for last year’s bat flip tonight. Should they? https://t.co/sonmGOXB76
— Evan Grant (@Evan_P_Grant) May 2, 2016
The result of that poll: Fifty-five percent of respondents said to let it go; 45 percent said to hit Bautista. Evan Grant covers the Rangers, so I assume most of those voters are Rangers fans, which means nearly half of them are advocating violence. So, no, it’s not a silly question on whether the Rangers should throw at Bautista. Obviously, a large percentage of fans think it’s a good idea, even though all Bautista did was come through in the clutch with a monstrous home run and …
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