r/ClevelandGuardians • u/Automatic-Count2092 • 2d ago

Discussion Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down

Has anyone deciphered the thumbs up/thumbs down thing the boys do after a base hit? I can't figure it out.

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u/Can-I-remember 2d ago

👎🏻

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u/SylemNova Selby Truther 2d ago

👍

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u/Affectionate_Tower59 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 2d ago

I want to believe it’s from project Hail Mary

https://giphy.com/gifs/f5Fya4tCL3iJCaH7Tj

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u/Smeef_xx Pride G 2d ago

Yes, the first representation of the gesture in media

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u/Affectionate_Tower59 🥊 DOWN GOES ANDERSON 🥊 2d ago

I mean it came out right about when they started doing it and throughout the movie Rocky keeps mixing thumbs up with thumbs down

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u/Nailz1115 2d ago

Thanks, Commodus

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u/Decent_Philosophy899 2d ago

The thumbs down that they do is because of this interaction between Gosling and the alien

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u/Smeef_xx Pride G 2d ago

Shit, for real??

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u/Nailz1115 2d ago edited 1d ago

It's a reference to the movie Project Hail Mary

Trying to avoid any explicit spoilers... The protagonist encounters someone else, but due to their language barrier, they get mixed up on thumbs up/down and then just settle for down being the "positive" one.

Side note - good movie and very good book by Andy Weir. Same guy that wrote The Martian. Book was better (as usual) but film was good, too. Book just allowed for some more science-y details that some people would dig

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u/FLman42069 2d ago

Haven’t they been doing it longer than the movie has been out?

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u/uChoice_Reindeer7903 2d ago

That’s what I thought

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u/420DonCheadle420 2d ago

The movie came out a week before opening day, I don’t remember if they were doing it all the way back in spring training though

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u/davefromokinawa Diamond C 1d ago

Honestly not being a dick, but Grace was the protagonist. An antagonist would be the bad guy in the story.

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u/ChrisBot8 1d ago

So you’re saying the guy that is stopping the human race from going extinct is a good guy?

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u/Nailz1115 1d ago

Correct. I was drunk and typing quickly lol

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u/Philthou 2d ago

It’s based off of Project Hail Mary

https://giphy.com/gifs/f5Fya4tCL3iJCaH7Tj

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u/DZepperoni Always look on the bright side of life 2d ago

No more comments folks, we’re all good here

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u/Swan990 2d ago

Its first one I dont like simply because its what Cubs did season they.....you know.

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u/NoExamination3681 2d ago

This is what I came up with. Also, a fan was disappointed that the other team hit a run and that fan gave the 👎. So now they give a 👎to celebrate a hit.