he didn't talk [expletive] until [expletive] was talked to him. his bat flip and posing counts as talking [expletive]. again, no problem with his posing and bat flipping. no problem with cole calling him on it. and if you think cole's comments to him were about baseball's unwritten rules and and NOT "hey nice bat flip on a triple, jackass," I don't know what to tell you. Whining about a bat flip is whining about an unwritten rule. That flip is not talking [expletive]. It is an immediate emotional response expressing his enjoyment for a well hit ball, just like a million other emotional responses in sports. Cole's response was not an immediate response. He let the fact that he gave up a triple get the best of him and he fell back on the unwritten rule nonsense to justify his behavior. One guy celebrated doing something good, one guy whined about being upstaged. The winner is clear.