Samurai Japan's Ryosuke Kikuchi makes glove flip play that all other glove flip plays want to be

Plato tells us that everything in this life is a mere shadow of its most perfect form. We can never experience these forms in reality, we only witness their faint flickerings on the wall of the cave in which we exist.

Unless you were watching Thursday's MLB All-Stars exhibition game against Samurai Japan. In that case, you got a glimpse into the eternal when you saw Japanese second baseman Ryosuke Kikuchi's Platonic ideal of a glove flip:

That was no shadow of form. All other glove flips are only reflections of this glove flip that got Jose Altuve out at first. That, ladies and gentleman, is what gloves hope to be when they grow up.