There was a flood of emotions on both sides. BC has pretty much played this whole season based on emotion, especially with the whole Pete Frates/ALS thing inspiring them. So, they all felt absolutely sick when Edgar hit that GS. I get that, and I feel for them on that basis.
On our side, Edgar was having a career day, and just hit a monster GS late in the game that at that point was likely to send us to Omaha (and of course, it did). Our celebration both on the bat flip side and when he crossed the plate was just fine. The celebrating with the fans through the mesh behind home plate was fine.
Now, had we been doing that on BC's home field, it could have been seen as disrespectful, and then BC's catcher's reaction would have been warranted. Disrespecting someone else's home field like that is a sucky thing to do...but even then, I agree with the thought of "if you don't want us celebrating, don't let us score".
The confrontation by BC's catcher (and reportedly, BC's 1B talking **** as Edgar trotted towards first before the bat flip), were all where things went wrong - I honestly put the majority of the blame on BC's 1B more than anybody, because he was the first one over to talk **** to our dugout. The flip-side of us celebrating is BC's inability to lose with class. I understand the emotion, but if BC's coaches are going to try to put the onus on us to win with class, then their kids need to know how to lose with class as well. We're on our home field, and we deserve to celebrate. They're the visitors, and they need to respect and remember where they are. With the way BC's pitching coach acted, he should have been tossed right then and there. Brian Gabriel ****-near took his head off, and he would have deserved it.
And being an old school baseball guy, had BC beaned Chester right after that, as long as they weren't headhunting, I would have been OK with the retaliation. Let Chester wear it, take your warning, then move the fvck on. Message sent, message received...over with and done. All clearing the benches and going after coaches/assistants/players alike does is perpetuate the issue.