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.