The Oxford dictionary defines irony as “a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result.”
We’d prefer to just point to the above video to tell you everything you need to know about the word.
And your eyes aren’t deceiving you. That is, in fact, Rougned Odor — he of the punch-Jose-Bautista-in-the-face-for-bat-flipping-during-a-playoff-game variety — flipping his own bat during a World Baseball Classic game on a shot that just ended up being a single.
Odor and his Texas Rangers teammates didn’t hide their feelings on Bautista and the Toronto Blue Jays following the slugger’s bat flip in Game 5 of the ALDS in 2015.
Karma man, I tell you …
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