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NY Mets HR chancla is clever, personal, and too perfect for this team’s identity

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Look! Out in the New York Mets dugout. It’s a surfboard. It’s a flip-flop. No, it’s a chancla. A what? Quick Google search. A slipper? This makes no sense.

Well, it does actually. It’s almost too perfect of a way to celebrate a home run. It can have a million different deeper meanings. First, we need to look into what a chancla even is.

The chancla is near but maybe not so dear in Hispanic cultures

If you haven’t checked yet, the chancla represents discipline, usually from a mother. It comes from the idea of a parent removing their shoe to settle down some rowdy children.