THREAD: To prepare you for the debut of the KBO on ESPN in less than 10 hours, I did @edsbs' bidding and compiled the nastiest, sauciest, most disrespectful, outright felonious bat flips from the league that does nasty, saucy, disrespectful, felonious bat flips better than any.

This might be the best introduction possible to KBO bat flipping. The standard style is a two-handed, tomahawk-released, end-over-end projectile. The two angles here really sell it.

This is hypnotic. I’ve watched it like 50 times and it’s still great.

I don’t know what this is. I don’t really care, either. It's great.

What has better exit velocity: the ball or the bat?

Want to know why the KBO rules? This was a foul ball.

Football has Fat Guy Touchdowns. The KBO has Fat Guy Bat Flips.

Lefties flip, too.

You throw an 85-mph fastball at the top of the zone, you deserve to get one-hand flipped.

This is Jae-Gyun Hwang. He is prone to staring at pretty things for uncomfortably long periods of time.

Minimalism.

In 2018, Suk-Min Park took one small flip for man, one giant flip for mankind.

Nasty. Saucy. Disrespectful. Felonious.

Remember: 1 a.m. ET, NC Dinos vs. Samsung Lions, ESPN. I’m not going to promise any bat flips tonight, but in the coming days and weeks, as we run six games a week live, we will be your bat flip repository and headquarters.

A few other things:

1) For more about bat-flip culture, read @minakimes, who went to Korea and wrote the definitive story: https://es.pn/35Chgmn 

2) Follow @MyKBO, who is a trove of knowledge and bat-flip GIFs

3) From earlier: ESPN's KBO viewers' guide https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29124646/power-rankings-top-players-key-storylines-more-everything-need-kbo-opening-day