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The by now deeply familiar -- and deeply wonderful -- home run trot of Blue Jays cloutsman Edwin Encarnacion may date back to this grand slam in April of 2012 (via Blue Jay Hunter) ...

Now, that trot is the natural conclusion to every Encarnacion blast. So culturally prominent is his trot that it long ago yielded one of the great baseball GIFs in the ever-growing annals of great baseball GIFs ...

And the people say: Hang that in the Louvre or let there be no Louvre.

Anyhow, why are we going on about what's know known as the "Ed-wing"? We're going on about it because on Friday, young Canadian baseball-ist Loreto Siniscalchi homered against Japan in the Little World Series and promptly thereupon busted out the Ed-wing. As you'll soon see, we tell stories, but we do not tell lies ...

Excelsior! Canada went on to prevail by a score of 10-4, and Siniscalchi, in addition to crushing one, struck out 13 batters while on the mound. Most of all, though, he gloriously co-opted the Ed-wing. And all of use are the better for it.

Wink of the CBS Eye: TSN.ca