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What is Orioles' new upgraded home run celebration for 2024?

The Orioles have a new home run celebration and it is absolutely fantastic.
Eric Cole
Eric Cole

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One of the more fun developments in recent years across baseball is the widespread adoption of creative dugout celebrations after a home run or a big play. The Mariners have their trident, the Nationals have their powder wig, the Pirates have their sword -- as did the Braves when Guillermo Heredia was with the team. However, the Baltimore Orioles did not have anything quite so distinctive until very recently.

It is hard to breakthrough in the celebration game, but the Orioles may have come up with the best one of them all thanks to a modified beer bong that has been dubbed the Homer Hydration Station. It's a significant upgrade on 2023's version, allowing for more versatility and consumption of ... water. Yes, water.

Orioles unveil hilarious new home run celebration in Homer Hydration Station

The premise with the celebration is simple: a player hits a home run or presumably scores on a home run, they take a drink from the hydration station. However, it is the execution that is true art here. No Gatorade cooler shenanigans or chalices here. Instead, the Orioles have channeled their inner college frat boy and instead are using an aggressively branded octopus-looking beer funnel for the celebration with carefully placed decals.

First, we can all agree that this would be objectively more hilarious if they were actually shotgunning beers in this thing, but that would also be a bad idea if they want to be safe and, you know, actually win baseball games. For those that think that this is brand new device, it is decidedly not, and there are models readily available on Amazon (albeit not Orioles-themed, so there is room for the team or ambitious entrepreneurs out there that can get trademark permission).

All of this is in good fun and fits right in with the current incarnation of the Orioles, a young, exciting team that fans are excited to come watch play, win or lose. Right now, the celebration has been fairly tame and it will be interesting to see if they find a way to make it a more raucous affair. That said, it is a mortal lock that the Homer Hydration Station is going to be used for more than water once big postseason wins start happening.

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Eric Cole

Eric Cole

I started my career writing about baseball covering the Atlanta Braves for SB Nation's Talking Chop back in 2015 which has since been renamed Battery Power. After years of writing for those fine folks, I made the decision to take over as Site Expert at House That Hank Built before becoming a full-time MLB Staff Writer for FanSided in 2023. Along the way, I have been a guest on multiple ESPN radio affiliates as well as 680 The Fan and 92.9 The Game to discuss Braves baseball and especially Braves prospects and was a long-time host on the Battery Power podcast. These days, I continue to write about the Braves as well as covering the Astros, Padres, and Angels with particular expertise with minor league coverage, the MLB Draft, and bashing Anthony Rendon when possible. When I am not writing about or talking about baseball (which is seldom), I am an avid baseball card collector (Maddux and Soroka being my primary personal collections) and I also collect shark teeth. All other sports are mostly dead to me as my Bills have broken my heart too many times.