Bryce Harper's Opening Day hat riffs on Trump, trolls baseball's fun police
Bryce Harper hit a home run in his opening at bat of Major League Baseball's 2016 Opening Day.
But he saved his best shot for after the game.
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Harper, a 23-year-old superstar for the Washington Nationals, sits at the crux of a tired debate about baseball's so-called "unwritten rules." Many old-timers (ahem, Goose Gossage) feel celebrations and showing actual emotion during sporting events "disrespect" the game and opponents. Harper is among a younger generation of MLB players that thinks the old fogies and mall-cops need to relax.
The debate is dumb, but this hullabaloo over a post-homer bat flip last fall sums it up aptly. But we digress. After his excellent opening game Monday, Harper wore this hat.
MAKE BASEBALL FUN AGAIN
MAKE BASEBALL FUN AGAIN
MAKE BASEBALL FUN AGAIN
Eat your heart out, Donald Trump. Good to see Harper stand up for something he believes in.
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Sam Laird is Mashable's Senior Sports Reporter. He covers the wide, weird world of sports from all angles -- as well as occasional other topics -- from Mashable's San Francisco bureau. Before joining Mashable in November 2011, his freelance work appeared in publications including the New York Times, New York Times Magazine, Slam, and East Bay Express. Sam is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, and basketball and burritos take up most of his spare time. Follow him on Twitter @samcmlaird.
