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Joey Votto does his best King Kong impression, crushes paper airplane

Reds’ Joey Votto crushed a fan’s paper airplane that fell onto the infield at Dodgers Stadium

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Joey Votto is a big a powerful baseball player and what better way to display that to opposing fans at Dodgers Stadium than by crushing an airplane.

Granted it was a paper airplane but the authority with which he stomped it and shoved it into his back pocket still had the desired effect on fans.

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Fans let the former MVP know they saw what he did and they were not happy about it.

Votto’s show of strength did not extend to the batter’s box unfortunately for Cincinnati, as he went 1-for-4 in the Reds 8–2 loss to the Dodgers.

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