You'll recall, of course, the already iconic bat-flip of Blue Jays cloutsman Jose Bautista, which he unsheathed against the Rangers in the 2015 ALDS. We've seen this bat-flip rendered in media ranging from bobbleheads to holiday sweaters to hockey video games. Inevitably, the Corn Maze Industrial-Complex has now had its say.
Please cast your unworthy eyes upon what's become of a swatch of Hunter Brother Farm corn field in New Brunswick ...
Hunter Brothers Farm Celebrate Blue Jays 40th Season With Corn Maze #BlueJays@BlueJays#MLBhttps://t.co/9pe6Bn1TZNpic.twitter.com/I9fHpIKdEf
— CHSJ News (@chsjnews) August 31, 2016
There's Joey Bats, looking not unlike Mr. Bill with a chia pet beard, there's his bat-flip, and there's a shout-out to the Jays' 40th anniversary season. In keeping with corn maze best practices, here's some action-sports footage of same ...
As always with baseball, there is beauty everywhere you look.
Finally, we leave the agronomists of Texas with a polite suggestion for what to do with their idle corn fields, by way of withering rejoinder ...
Much like love, corn is a battlefield.