"Unwritten" rules in baseball

 
Maybe that is true, but then again, maybe it isn't. If this is about feelings being hurt by the flip, why would Bush do this? He wasn't even a member of the organization when Bautista hit the home run, so how exactly would his feelings be hurt? More likely the Rangers talked amongst one another about paying retribution on Bautista prior to the series. Even if that conversation didn't happen, the fact remains that he didn't do this on his own. Whether he was told or not, Bush acted in response to this unwritten code that, for better or worse, put him on the good side of his teammates for, 'standing up for what was right.'
 
This code is ridiculous. It makes the game of baseball tired. "It's tired because you can't express yourself," Bryce Harper said to Tim Keown of ESPN the Magazine. It's this idea of making baseball great again through allowing players to express themselves through bat-flips and fist pumps. Not stifling that by hitting each other on the rare occasion that it seeps out.

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