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As a Braves fan, I enjoyed seeing some of these new-to-me angles and features in games I saw on other broadcasts. I wish the Bally Sports South crew had some more playful takes like this. The Buck Showalter hit-by-pitch feature is pretty dang funny https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-t536p141B8

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So, care to explain the inside baseball bit that makes this "pretty dang funny"?

I just see a guy shaking his head at the (assuming) dumb ass pitcher for hurling a wild through and putting a man on base for free. Whatever the rest of the video FX are doing, I don't know the point.

It references Beatrice Kiddo/ The Bride in the Tarantino films Kill Bill. I'm foregoing the spoiler warning for a movie from 2003, but the same music/red color is in the film whenever she recalls Bill killing her groom and bridal party, and shooting her in the face, leaving her for dead.

In 2022, the Mets were (are?) by far the team most likely to get hit by a pitch. It's a commentary on past trauma.

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