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Maddon: 'We don't do that here'

Published Jun. 5, 2015 1:24 a.m. ET

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As it turns out, the Marlins weren't the only ones upset with Junior Lake's actions Wednesday night.

When Lake homered against Miami he made a "ssshhh" gesture with his finger and lips toward the Marlins dugout that nearly started a brawl.

“We don’t do that here,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said afterward to CSN Chicago. “And that will be the last time you see it.”

And if that wasn't clear enough, Maddon continued to speak and made it abundantly clear that that type of gesture is not something he wants to see from a team he is in charge of.

“I don’t want us to take the fight there by acting like a punk,” Maddon said. “I don’t want that at all. I want us to take the fight there by playing the game properly and hard and fundamentally sound.

“You know that we’re coming after you – that’s what I want. I don’t want us to take a page out of ‘Major League’ and flamboyantly flip a bat after a long home run. I don’t want that at all. That has nothing to do with us ascending.

“I’d like to use this moment for our minor-league guys – that doesn’t play. For kids watching – that doesn’t play. Don’t do that. That’s not cool. That’s very, very much not cool. If you’re watching the game back home in Chicago tonight, don’t do that if you hit a home run. Don’t do it. It’s not cool.”

(h/t CSN Chicago)

Photo Credit: Rick Scuteri-USA TODAY Sports

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