As previously written on this site, "Baseball is a very strange sport played by very strange people."
And the Washington Nationals are absolutely strange people.
After the Nationals come-from-behind, extra-inning win Tuesday night in Philadelphia, it was time to break out the heads of cabbage again. If you think you didn't read that sentence right... you did. The Nats got heads of cabbage after the win. Seriously.
This was another cabbage situation, apparently. The Nationals had a cabbage race in the spring as a fun thing. Tonight, there is cabbage all over the clubhouse floor being progressively swept up.
— Todd Dybas (@Todd_Dybas) April 10, 2019“The boys like their cabbage,” manager Dave Martinez said.
"I've never rallied around cabbage like we have," outfielder Adam Eaton said. "It gets the boys fired up and it brings us together."
The tradition (sure, tradition) began in spring training when the Nats had a cabbage relay-race of sorts, which resulted in some epic-smashes.
normal teams after wins: *high five line*your favorite team after wins: *THROWS CABBAGE*#CabbageSmashKids // #OnePursuit pic.twitter.com/S6wPOTaaiF
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 10, 2019“We’re all in this as a group,” closer Sean Doolittle said about the cabbage smashing. “It was just a fun way to end the night.”
No matter what happens from here, it looks like the cabbage smashing was definitely a better idea than the spring training camels.
To commemorate this new celebration, the people at Breaking T have come out with a new shirt.
-- NEW ⚾️ SHIRT -- ALERT! --Winning games and smashing cabbages: That's what D.C. does! #CabbageSmashKidsAvailable now in adult + youth (!) sizes: https://t.co/FzXiE1Tczl pic.twitter.com/0fCPw40KzH
— BreakingT (@breakingtco) April 11, 2019Not to be outdone, 7th & F is also in the cabbage shirt game.
Have you met the #CabbageSmashKids? ⚾---- https://t.co/oCE6zrCg8p pic.twitter.com/yA2Zg39ePH
— 7th & F (@seventhandf) April 12, 2019The Nationals have done a lot of weird strange things, so the cabbage smashing craze seems rather normal by comparison.
What a journey we’ve been on together, all of us pic.twitter.com/mn6Vu2rnBL
— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) April 11, 2019Yup. Strange sport played by strange people.
(H/t to Dan Steinberg)
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