Urgent News Footage: Edwin Encarnacion Still Baseball T-Rex

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April 6, 2015

At some level, Opening Day represents the birth of a new season and facilitates all the optimism associated with new beginnings. At the same time, however, that new season is also embedded within a perpetual cycle of recurring baseball seasons and their attendant narratives and symbols.

Pursuant to that latter point, one finds that while certain things are changing, at least one thing is also staying the same — namely, Edwin Encarnacion’s weird T-Rex arm that emerges any time he records a home run. This phenomenon has been documented before. Below, it’s documented again.

First, Encarnacion hits a home run in the third inning against Yankees starter Masahiro Tanaka:

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At about the first-base area, his Reptilian Other manifests itself in the form of a paralyzed fore limb:

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Nor does it abate until Encarnacion rounds third base:

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Carson Cistulli has published a book of aphorisms called Spirited Ejaculations of a New Enthusiast.

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jrubyMember since 2016
10 years ago

That IS urgent.

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