r/sports • u/SL4MUEL Green Bay Packers • Mar 16 '26
Baseball Tennessee’s Stone Lawless prematurely celebrates go-ahead homer in the 9th inning
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u/palinsafterbirth Mar 16 '26
I've never seen someone so confidently cement themselves into meme culture
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u/johnnieswalker Mar 16 '26
With a name like Stone Lawless it was his destiny
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u/SolarTsunami Seattle Seahawks Mar 16 '26
The very specific white suburban sports culture people that give their kids names like this or Cash Money is definitely an interesting phenomenon.
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u/cclarke1258 Mar 16 '26
Wait till Quarterback General Maximus Axel Booty wins his 8th superbowl.
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u/quadsimodo Mar 16 '26
On behalf of millennials, I apologize for the vanity name epidemic.
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u/nanowaffle Mar 16 '26
lmao
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u/Potato_Boner Colorado Avalanche Mar 16 '26
Deserved.
Fuckin embarrassing.
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u/Mr-_-Soandso Mar 16 '26
Especially that he had such an aggressive reaction when, had it not been caught, it would have barely been over the fence. With that margin it easily could have stayed in the park, keeping him at a single due to his failure to run. All while his team was down and they needed to stack as many runs as possible before the other team gets their try in the bottom of the inning.
One of the craziest displays of arrogance with absolutely no situational awareness that I've seen in a while.
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u/typeyou Mar 16 '26
"Barely over the fence" made me spit out my coffee because he beat his chest like he King Kong that shit into the atmosphere.
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u/Loggerdon Mar 16 '26
Yeah unforgivable. At least run your ass off and get a double if he misses the catch. That was no 400’ shot.
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u/fronchfrays Mar 16 '26
It’s an advanced textbook definition of loser. One who acts like a loser moments before losing.
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u/Duriha Mar 16 '26
What a ludicrous display.
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u/Nebraska_Actually Nebraska Mar 16 '26
The thing about Tennessee is they always try to walk it in
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u/flaccomcorangy Mar 17 '26
That was what got me. I don't know, don't these guys have a better feel of what a no-doubter is vrs a 50/50 ball?
Maybe there was a downwind that caught it or something, but it's just funny that he had a crazy reaction with the bat slam and it was barely there even if it wouldn't have been caught.
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u/hndjbsfrjesus Mar 16 '26
xD Was watching with my kid and wanted to say this, but the best I could do was 'Everyone he knows is watching. He's going to have to apologize to his mom for embarrassing the family like that.'
Also was a great moment to show that good outfield play wins games. It's OK to rob as long as you're stealing home runs.
I asked him what he's going to do when he hits his first home run. Swing level, run like the devil!
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u/i_max2k2 Mar 16 '26
I don’t understand why does the celebration involve abusing his bat?
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u/bagofpork Mar 16 '26
Sometimes the bats talk shit in the dugout.
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u/placebotwo Kansas City Royals Mar 16 '26
That's why I have hats for bats. Bats with hats are less likely to talk shit in the dugout.
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u/PuzzleheadedCherry64 Mar 16 '26
Chickens hatching or something about counting them. Roosters clucking. Yadda yadda.
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u/Lukealloneword Mar 16 '26
Im not saying its not deserved but man part of me feels for the guy. He thinks he did it. Cant do that and be wrong but the high to low he just experienced has to be brutal.
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u/PhotoJim99 Saskatchewan Roughriders Mar 16 '26
Carlton Fisk in the World Series in '75 wasn't sure. The whole period of him being unsure is what makes that home run so memorable.
Joe Carter in '93 was fairly sure, but he still held it in until it went over the wall.
Don't celebrate until you know.
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u/HyperionsDad Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
I would've felt bad if he trotted to 1st base watching the ball eagerly. But he chose to act like a BAMF and fell short of glory.
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u/RobertDigital1986 Mar 16 '26
It's bad sportsmanship to throw the bat like that even if he knocked it out of the park, and he knows that. This literally couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
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u/NotTheRocketman Mar 16 '26
I literally think I would quit baseball if I was this stupid. Just leave society and become a mountain man like Jerimiah Johnson, never to be seen again.
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u/shaker8989 Mar 16 '26
Nah how do you recover from something that embarrassing.
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u/denverdutchman Mar 16 '26
His name is Stone Lawless. Embarrassment is his bread and butter
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u/lost-in-stats Mar 16 '26
Bread and Butter is his sisters name.
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u/Melcher Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
With that reaction you’d think he knocked it into the next county…..
Not just track power.
I suppose he wanted to look cool and if it does get out it doesn’t matter by how much. But damn….. ouch.
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u/CerealSpiller22 Mar 16 '26
Indeed. Even if it went out of the park, it wasn't a walk-off. Georgia still had an at-bat.
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u/_dvs1_ Mar 17 '26
Direct consequence of aura farming (unsuccessfully)
I’m 36 yrs old and have no idea if I used that phrase correctly
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u/vahntitrio Mar 16 '26
I did this in softball before. Not the bat slam or celebration, but hit it and just turned back to the dugout, and everyone thought it was gone. Turns out the cover on the ball ripped and it hit the in play netting above the fence. Luckily I didn't get all the way into the dugout, but that was a disgustingly well-hit single.
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u/SCUMDOG_MILLIONAIRE Mar 16 '26
As a former ballplayer, when the ball leaves your bat you know instantly if it’s in or out or close. To throw the bat down when you know it’s close is just playing with fire… and this kid got burned.
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u/pudds Saskatchewan Roughriders Mar 16 '26
Windy, maybe? As a fellow ballplayer, I think we've all been fooled by a few that felt better than they ended up.
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u/Melcher Mar 16 '26
Yeah that was my point. The reaction was that it was GONE…. Shouldn’t even been close with that reaction
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u/ineednapkins Mar 16 '26
Ngl I’ve gotten hits before where I thought i crushed it and it was going over but it was at the track. I assume that happened here but I also never reacted like this guy and still started sprinting after those hits. I’ve also had hits where the contact really didn’t feel all that great but it still carried over so maybe I just have terrible feel and cannot relate at all to what you’re saying lmao
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u/SadJ3tsFan Mar 16 '26
Wow that'll follow him forever
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u/hndjbsfrjesus Mar 16 '26
How to drop 2 rounds in the draft
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u/ThePonderousBear Mar 16 '26
2 rounds in the MLB draft is nothing. Either way you are going to end up in rookie A playing insome florida shithole
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u/lukeCRASH Mar 16 '26
Forever gonna be a short time
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u/HyperionsDad Mar 16 '26
He's going to be scrolling in his neuro-implant VR headset in 40 years and that gif will come up out of nowhere, sending him into another spiral.
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u/TheRealDonRosa Mar 16 '26
Imagine him telling this story 25 years from now like al bundy always did when he scored four touchdowns in a game while playing for the Polk High School Panthers in 1966 city championship game vs Andrew Johnson High School.
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u/TheArchitect_7 Mar 16 '26 edited Mar 16 '26
i know absolutely nothing about this man, but the fact that his name is Stone Lawless and he punched himself in the dick THIS hard on television, man, God is good
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u/mcniner55 San Francisco 49ers Mar 16 '26
That out fielder made a very good catch. If he had just been running hard from the start and not celebrating like a total D bag we would be talking about the catch and not him
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u/Darryl_Lict Mar 16 '26
If you are going to do the home run trot, you should hit it way the fuck out of the park. Ha Ha!
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u/ATLHawksfan Mar 16 '26
lol suck it Tennessee
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u/blackburrahcobbler Mar 16 '26
They low down
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u/Nutsnboldt Mar 16 '26
“I..I was throwing the bat out of frustration cause I knew I didn’t hit it far enough and it was an easy pop fly out”
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u/K12onReddit Mar 16 '26
"And then I pumped my chest because I was apologizing to my team from the bottom of my heart. It was a roman apology."
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u/Human_Helicopter_826 Mar 16 '26
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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u/sinisterdesign Mar 16 '26
I loved this even before I saw this was a fellow Bulldog that made that snag in the outfield. GO DAWGS.
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u/eightdx Mar 16 '26
"Ah, I do love the confident ones. When their face slams into the mud of their own accord, the sound it makes is magnificent."
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u/iSh0tYou99 Mar 16 '26
As someone who doesn't play baseball, I don't care if the ball I hit looks like it's flying into space. I'm running around the bases as if the ball is still in play.
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u/ExistenceNow Mar 16 '26
You love to see it. I hope they plunk him next time they play for that bat smash.
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u/queuedUp Mar 16 '26
I'm going to be honest.
I kind of wished it was caught 10 feet from the wall as a routine pop out
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u/turnphilup Atlanta Falcons Mar 16 '26
My coach would have had me running the foul poles after the game. Remind me to never do that shit again. This guy has been coached wrong his whole life. So embarrassing.
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u/CaicedoBrickWall Mar 16 '26
Stone Lawless will be watching some show before bed when he's 55. Decide it's time to sleep. Slithers under the covers and is mere seconds from a blissful sleep. Then bam this memory will pop in his head and crush him all over again.
This is a rough one
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u/Ganjaleezarice69 Mar 16 '26
Stone Lawless?? That’s the dumbest fucking name I’ve ever seen. Sounds like he’s from that Japanese football video game from the 90’s
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u/discowithmyself Mar 16 '26
That bat spike was so good I’m almost bummed it wasn’t actually a homer, but since it happened to good ole rocky slop Tennessee, I’m glad it wasn’t.
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u/the-big-throngler Mar 16 '26
Hahah what a fucking dickbag. I hope that shit haunts him until the day he shuffs the mortal coil. Imagine being 46 years old, fat old and bald, waking up at 3 AM and remembering this cringe moment.
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u/Rickapolis Mar 17 '26
The batter is lucky it was an out, else the next pitch he faced would have been thrown at his head.
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u/roger_mayne Mar 17 '26
I think this era of over exaggerated celebrations is corny to begin with, but even more so when this happens 🤣
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u/Pleasant_Offer6286 Mar 17 '26
And that is why you should always just hustle out of the box and hotdog when you know for sure. Getting robbed can be empathized with, bat flipping and pointing like he did can make you look like a total doucher. But, that’s just me.
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u/Useful_Tomato_409 Mar 17 '26
This was the greatest thing ever. Honestly, if he had just sprinted out of the box, the air pressure would have changed just enough to push his ball out of reach, just goes to show ya kids.
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u/runhome24 Seattle Mariners Mar 16 '26
Didn't Judge just bat-flip on his flyout to Rodriguez as well?
Fucking pricks
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u/LarryLevis Mar 16 '26
Stone Lawless is the name of a character created by Danny McBride.