Just about every baseball team celebrates a home run in their own unique way.

The Mets have their apple. Houston has its train. Cincinnati has smokestacks that emits, yes, smoke, and fireworks.

But, our Marlins home run celebration plans might top them all.

The Miami Marlins will have a celebration sculpture that looks like a psychedelic roulette wheel of jumping marlins, diving seagulls and the wild colors have some fans in a tizzy.

The 74-foot sculpture – designed by one of America’s most famous pop artist, Red Grooms - is under construction now and will cost $2.5-million, the county’s largest public sculpture. It will come alive anytime a player hits a home run.

The sculpture apparently will help make good on a promise that Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, made two years ago. An art dealer by trade, Loria said the new ballpark would be a work of art unlike any other.

The animated artist rendering of the mechanical sculpture with water, birds, waving palms trees — even flipping dolphins — had the Internet abuzz Friday after it emerged on a local web site.

Located in center field below the scoreboard of the new stadium, the sculpture is a boom for Miami, county arts officials said, calling it an “absolute home run” in itself.

The stadium is the first sports arena to spotlight public art as a home-run feature, showcasing Miami’s emerging reputation for the arts.

“People will be really delighted by the work once they see it,” said Michael Spring, director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. “It’s a monumental work by one of America’s greatest artists … we didn’t want some esoteric unappreciated art work. We wanted something people could have fun with.”

Some people were having fun Friday — but a few of the reviews flooding in over the web were not exactly flattering. Late evening, 94 percent of respondents — or 118 voters on a Channel 10 poll called the sculpture “tacky,” compared to only 6 percent deeming it “tasteful.”

“This HAS to be a joke,” wrote Drew Housman on the county department’s Facebook page, where the video initially posted. “Mike Stanton might start bunting so he does not have to hurt his eyes looking at this thing.”

“Miami Vice,” wrote Alex Padron. “We will be the laughing stock if this goes up.”

It didn’t stop.

“This is what would happen if Vikings attacked a Gloria Estefan concert by catapulting flamingos and marlins into the pyrotechnics display,” wrote Grant Brisbee, an editor for SB Nation, one of the country’s largest online sports communities.

County officials defended the work, saying the magnificence of the final piece can’t be fully conveyed in an artist rendering.

“The piece has evolved since the proposal,” Spring said “It hasn’t changed significantly … but I would say the real thing is going to be bigger and better.”

Red Grooms, born in Tennessee in 1937, has been compared to Marchel Duchamp and has his work included in the collections of 39 museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 2003, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award by the National Academy of Design.

Judith E. Stein, a Philadelphia-based arts critic who curated a retrospective on his work, said the sculpture was “absolutely charming,” consistent with the work for which Grooms has been widely recognized.

“It’s taking the instinctive whoop of delight that a fan would give and giving it a visual form,” Stein said. “This is an art work that’s just screaming with enthusiasm … using a visual vocabulary that’s specific to Miami.”

“Art is in the eye of the beholder,” Spring acknowledged in response to the criticism. “So we accept any and all interpretations of the art work.”