Washington Nationals Celebrate Not Stinking by Dousing Reporter with Gatorade

Apparently excited about not completely stinking for the first time, well, ever, the Washington Nationals have adopted a celebration usually reserved for actual accomplishments: The Gatorade Bath. They've done it three times already this season, a season that's still in its first month, a season where they're off to a hot start after impressive series against the vaunted Astros and Marlins. 

Aw, yeah. Can somebody say World Series! Oh, and it's probably a total coincidence that these three Gatorade baths (Three!) have come during postgame interviews, which just happen to be conducted by a young, good-looking, rookie sideline reporter. 

Total coincidence, of course. 

This is obviously lame. Any non-idiot sports fan should know this. There's certain rules that are well-established in sports lore, and others that should just be obvious for those with a modicum of common sense. For instance: If your college is ranked and they beat another ranked team, no court-storming.

In that vein: Gatorade baths are best reserved for football coaches, after the team actually does something important — not beating a worthless team in a regular season game at the beginning of the (baseball) season. More than that, they're certainly not reserved for continually dousing a reporter who's trying to do their job. A) Act like you've been there before; B) This is totally inappropriate. You don't douse women with gallons of liquid unannounced. Not on TV, not ever. Certainly not three times. 

Don't care if it's a walk-off, either. As the DC Sports Bog put it, that's what the shaving-cream pie is for. Leave the reporter out of it. This is frat-boy esque, and that's probably a diss to the average Sigma Chi. Even if it's totally innocent, interfering with a co-worker's job in such a brazen matter would get any other person in any other job a first-class ticket to the human resources office. 

But this is baseball. Boys will be boys, after all. 

Flawed argument. Grow up. It's a long season. Save the beverage-spraying celebrations for other players, and for when you actually clinch a playoff spot.