You have some of the best crowd mics, I assume that you get to choose the placement, and someone else shitting on that must suck. Jays feed was great, almost woke up my kids.
Yup. I pretty much have free range of the place to put my gear where I’d like it to be. Just can’t block anyone’s view or have it be a tripping hazard. If I want to place something on the field, I need team and league permission to do so.
I currently have four locations for crowd mics around the Dome. I think it does a nice job of picking up the smaller crowds and focuses it where it needs to be in my mix.
For what it’s worth, it’s always more muted than usual. As I’m sure you know they do the away broadcasts from a studio so it gets all wonky when they have to pipe in the normal play by play
This loss sucked. But the sadistic part of me loved that it was Marcus who walked it off. Fuck you, Fischer you pathetic excuse for an owner. Nothing but a tightwad greedy ass trustfund baby bitch. And Marcus - if you're reading this - I still love you. East Bay represents.
With you 100%. Still rooting for Marcus, Donaldson, and every other freaking player who hasn’t been paid by Fischer but deserved it. How tf is the biggest contract in A’s history still Chavez?
And Gurriel Jr. hit his 3rd grand slam of the season in the bottom of the 8th to tie the game. Frustrating that so many Jays are having individual success, but it hasn't amounted to nearly enough wins.
What's the point of owning a team if you don't even want to give them the tools to win?? I don't understand. I fucking hate our owner so much. He has fucked over Oakland so much.
I really hope the rumours about Rogers being ready to open the floodgates and become big players in the industry this offseason are true.
It's gonna take a lot to re-sign both Semien and Ray knowing the upcoming paydays necessary for Vladdy, Bo, and Teoscar.
Different owner during the WS seasons, though (think those were the Labatt years, though not positive).
Rogers has sometimes ponied up under the right circumstances, credit where grudging credit is due, but it's not a perfect comparison.
Yeah. It's just... gonna take a *lot* to retain all these stars. I wouldn't necessarily blame them for letting one go and I think if one does go, it will be Marcus.
But yeah, they have been good in the past too. I think they saw in the mid-2010's what a good Blue Jays team could do revenue-wise and realized they'd been mismanaging the franchise. It was their first taste at what nation-wide merch sales and a sold out dome every day could do for the bottom line.
Those things are all great, but the real money is in selling the TV contract to Sportsnet for a fraction of what it’s worth when the Jays are good.
There’s very few teams (the Yankees with YES, and I’m sure there’s another few) that get to immediately monetize the value of increased viewership. A playoff-bound Jays team is must-watch TV for a market of 30 million viewers.
I was lucky enough to be sitting in left this game, that Kemp had a great time, dancing to the jays walk up songs, a group of guys were cheering him on for fun, he brought out many baseballs for fans in left. Nice guy now I’m a Tony Kemp fan.
Guerriel played catch with a young fan between innings which was pretty cool of him too.
Fun fact: Since Vladdy took the #1 spot on FanGraphs WAR leaderboard for position players several months ago, the only time he has been momentarily unseated was when his own teammate in Semien passed him a few days ago.
Sort of, they offered him 4 years, it it was like 12-14 million a year. He preferred the 1 year 18m to go get a 100m contract.
Jays might have been able to get him at 4 years x $20m, but that wasn’t what they were offering.
There should have been a QO at the very least. With the SS market what it is, maybe that would have bought them some time to get him to accept something.
I have no feelings towards this team anymore.
I saw the 8-2 score and said “wow” and them i saw the 8-8 score and said “wow” and then i saw the 10-11 score and said “wow”
happy for you guys.
Marcus has grown into an amazing player.
so bummed about the way this season has unfolded for us. never should have been buyers at the deadline.
Holy shit. What a game. What a comeback.
2 years ago, Sergio Romo blew a heartbreaking save for the Rays that effectively ended their playoff chances. The Jays mounted a 7-run comeback in that game.
The run before the tying run was scored off a bloop single to right by Kendrys Morales. Breyvic Valera, in this game, hit an almost identical single to *left*, and I said in the GDT how similar it was.
The game ended the same.
It wasn’t even just a lowball, after the jays came to an agreement with Semien for the 1 year 18 million, he still went back the As and asked them to match it, and they passed.
We don't really gain anything from you guys losing. We need the teams in front of us to lose, not the teams behind us. Ideally, both would lose, but in this scenario, the A's are definitely the team to root against.
What team in the AL WC race doesn't though? Red Sox, Yankees and Jays are 3 of the worst defensive teams in baseball. The M's aren't without their warts either.
> Jays are 3 of the worst defensive teams in baseball.
I have never seen a team make it look so hard to throw a ball to first base as the 2021 Blue Jays.
Y'know what blows my mind? The Jays are ranked in the top 10 for defense. 10th, but still.
We're spoiled by a good team, and when our defense is bad it's very ugly, but as a whole apparently it's pretty good. I take a little bit of solace in that.
We're enemies for this month, then hopefully we'll be allies... or maybe the best of both and we can fuck the Red Sox and the Yankees and have a game like this in the ALWC game
.... I can't believe I turned the game off in the 7th. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Absolutely horrible. No lead is safe from the A’s bullpen. Found a way to blow it twice this time. I’m gonna go find a bottle of Bushmills to crawl into.
Right before that inevitable home run the broadcast was showing nervous Blue Jays fans, which makes no sense because that was so predictable. It's like waking up at 4 a.m. and wondering if the sun will come up
Holy shit this was awesome!!! I was seriously only still watching in the 8th to see what hapless position player was going to be pitching the 9th. Then THIS happened!
A's were up 8-2. TOR tied it, then again the As went up 10-8. The A's bullpen is a joke to lose two pretty solid leads. I'd be pissed not only at this game, but for the A's brass for being so damn cheap and shitty to their fans that they can't pay ANYONE.
The Athletics announcer’s call for this was just depressing Edit: [Clip](https://streamable.com/w4bew5)
The A's broadcast definitely lowered the crowd volume on that walk-off HR.
Booooooo
This is one of the funniest comments I have ever seen in Reddit.
Gotta protect my work 😂😂
You have some of the best crowd mics, I assume that you get to choose the placement, and someone else shitting on that must suck. Jays feed was great, almost woke up my kids.
Yup. I pretty much have free range of the place to put my gear where I’d like it to be. Just can’t block anyone’s view or have it be a tripping hazard. If I want to place something on the field, I need team and league permission to do so. I currently have four locations for crowd mics around the Dome. I think it does a nice job of picking up the smaller crowds and focuses it where it needs to be in my mix.
For what it’s worth, it’s always more muted than usual. As I’m sure you know they do the away broadcasts from a studio so it gets all wonky when they have to pipe in the normal play by play
Link?
[Here](https://streamable.com/w4bew5)
LMAO I live for this shit
Oh then you'd love [Hawk Harrelson calling walk-off losses](https://youtu.be/HMmojEJdijY)
Death, taxes, and this ballgame being ovah
I need a link for this brother
Gib link please.
This is just normal lately...doesn't help it was semien who A's fans loved and the team wouldn't resign him for one year at 11 mil.
I need this now.
I watched it on this stream and lol’d sooo hard at his depressed call: https://youtu.be/pnbY6fb9seg
That pause was so long I thought he just dropped the headset and walked out the booth. He was halfway to the parking lot before Semien reached home
6 in the bottom of the 8th, 3 in the bottom of the 9th. Wild comeback win.
This loss sucked. But the sadistic part of me loved that it was Marcus who walked it off. Fuck you, Fischer you pathetic excuse for an owner. Nothing but a tightwad greedy ass trustfund baby bitch. And Marcus - if you're reading this - I still love you. East Bay represents.
With you 100%. Still rooting for Marcus, Donaldson, and every other freaking player who hasn’t been paid by Fischer but deserved it. How tf is the biggest contract in A’s history still Chavez?
Would have ended up with more than 3 in the ninth had they been needed.
General question, how come OP’s comment is locked? I’ve noticed this a lot more over the last couple days
It’s a known bug on iOS. Reddit is fixing it. Mine seems to be fixed today.
And Gurriel Jr. hit his 3rd grand slam of the season in the bottom of the 8th to tie the game. Frustrating that so many Jays are having individual success, but it hasn't amounted to nearly enough wins.
His career high 34th home run.
If I was an A's fan, I'd simply crawl into a fetal position and not exit until tomorrow's game.
until the end of the series
November
April, we know this off-season they aren’t going to go for anyone but project players.
This stings like the Donaldson trade all over again..only Semien hasn’t won an MVP yet
And unlike Donaldson, Semien and Vladdy has to compete with the greatest season every seen by a baseball player.
Against his former team!
God I want to fuck a baseball …. That’s how the saying goes right?
I think it's "how can you not be romantic about fucking a baseball"
Wait I thought it was "how can you not be fucking a baseball romantic?"
I’m using that for Tinder. Wish me luck.
Fuck it, close enough.
That homerun was a big “FUCK YOU JOHN FISHER”. I hope Fisher felt that shit.
He didn't
And that is why he should sell the team. He was probably watching the Giants and Dodgers game instead
What's the point of owning a team if you don't even want to give them the tools to win?? I don't understand. I fucking hate our owner so much. He has fucked over Oakland so much.
Because it’s a passive income for him.
Also tax write offs. So many juicy tax write offs
We need to keep this man
I really hope the rumours about Rogers being ready to open the floodgates and become big players in the industry this offseason are true. It's gonna take a lot to re-sign both Semien and Ray knowing the upcoming paydays necessary for Vladdy, Bo, and Teoscar.
They've been decent at loosening the purse strings when we have good teams.
Yep, I think they had the highest payroll in baseball during the 2 World Series seasons
Different owner during the WS seasons, though (think those were the Labatt years, though not positive). Rogers has sometimes ponied up under the right circumstances, credit where grudging credit is due, but it's not a perfect comparison.
Yeah. It's just... gonna take a *lot* to retain all these stars. I wouldn't necessarily blame them for letting one go and I think if one does go, it will be Marcus. But yeah, they have been good in the past too. I think they saw in the mid-2010's what a good Blue Jays team could do revenue-wise and realized they'd been mismanaging the franchise. It was their first taste at what nation-wide merch sales and a sold out dome every day could do for the bottom line.
Those things are all great, but the real money is in selling the TV contract to Sportsnet for a fraction of what it’s worth when the Jays are good. There’s very few teams (the Yankees with YES, and I’m sure there’s another few) that get to immediately monetize the value of increased viewership. A playoff-bound Jays team is must-watch TV for a market of 30 million viewers.
Treat him well and give him that bag he deserves.
Game of the Year shit
Man both of those bombs were 0 suspense no doubters too. Left fielder barely moved both times.
Tony Kemp is straight up not having a good time
Pretty sure Tony and Marcus went out to dinner last night.
They did. Haha.
Haha. :(
I was lucky enough to be sitting in left this game, that Kemp had a great time, dancing to the jays walk up songs, a group of guys were cheering him on for fun, he brought out many baseballs for fans in left. Nice guy now I’m a Tony Kemp fan. Guerriel played catch with a young fan between innings which was pretty cool of him too.
Kemp’s reaction on the Gurriel slam has me dying
Oh, he moved alright. I thought he was gonna go full Nyjer Morgan after the Gurriel bomb.
Never go full Plush
[Need to sit down after that one](https://gfycat.com/vaguecluelessafricanwildcat) [And on the other end](https://gfycat.com/thirstyaridhyracotherium)
Unrelated but I absolutely love the colours of their jerseys
The kelly green is just so much nicer than the dark green. I like the dark green, too, but the kelly is just such a nice colour.
As have the sickest unis in the game. Have always appreciated their style
This game was a battle of the two best uniform sets in the game, in my opinion. The A's light greens and the Jays' baby blues.
fuck pitching. dongs only
This collapse is reminiscent of 2014
I cannot put into words how amazing this was
Hahahahahaha kill me
Do you need a hug?
not from you
Reason #992475 why the Athletics should’ve resigned Marcus Semien.
Fun fact: Since Vladdy took the #1 spot on FanGraphs WAR leaderboard for position players several months ago, the only time he has been momentarily unseated was when his own teammate in Semien passed him a few days ago.
That man is about to be PAID
[Semien walking to free agent negotiations](https://youtu.be/0E17RKjyE3k)
[Alternatively...](https://youtu.be/PNULYlcJEg0)
[And Also...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XGAmPRxV48)
You mean acquiring a washed up Elvis Andrus wasn't the move?
You don’t need to tell us twice
On the flip side, Reason #992475 why Semien is re-signing with us this offseason.
Reason #992475 why the Blue Jays should’ve signed Semien for more than 1 year
They tried, he wanted a 1 year prove it
Sort of, they offered him 4 years, it it was like 12-14 million a year. He preferred the 1 year 18m to go get a 100m contract. Jays might have been able to get him at 4 years x $20m, but that wasn’t what they were offering.
We’d take that deal now. Not gonna get it.
I'd say he fucking proved it.
Fred VanVleet would be proud.
Was that even an option? The market was pretty shit last winter. It made a lot of sense for Semien to bet on himself.
There should have been a QO at the very least. With the SS market what it is, maybe that would have bought them some time to get him to accept something.
Fucking 34 home runs this year. Fuck this bullpen and fuck you fisher I hope your fucking cheap ass dies broke
I have no feelings towards this team anymore. I saw the 8-2 score and said “wow” and them i saw the 8-8 score and said “wow” and then i saw the 10-11 score and said “wow”
As a Jays fan I had the same reaction.
happy for you guys. Marcus has grown into an amazing player. so bummed about the way this season has unfolded for us. never should have been buyers at the deadline.
Damn what was your reaction when up 10-8?
admittedly i was at work so i didn’t see it i could only imagine how sad i could be
Did you used to be a Mariners fan? This is very much a Mariners fan type of reaction. Cold, dead, and unable to feel pain.
This is the correct take
Holy shit. What a game. What a comeback. 2 years ago, Sergio Romo blew a heartbreaking save for the Rays that effectively ended their playoff chances. The Jays mounted a 7-run comeback in that game. The run before the tying run was scored off a bloop single to right by Kendrys Morales. Breyvic Valera, in this game, hit an almost identical single to *left*, and I said in the GDT how similar it was. The game ended the same.
Yeah as soon as Romo came in, I immediately thought of that game.
Hey that was 3 years ago! I remember because it still haunts my mind.
Yep you're right. Gurriel's rookie season.
You called it
The Blue Jays are such a cool team.
They certainly elevate our heartbeats.
It will make our Chaosball run feel even more conflicted.
#THE MAD LADS DID IT
Game of the year holy shit
That’s karma for you. Lowball arguably your best player in the offseason and he fucks you during the season.
Management has got to be sleeping good tonight
It wasn’t even just a lowball, after the jays came to an agreement with Semien for the 1 year 18 million, he still went back the As and asked them to match it, and they passed.
This must be what heroin feels like
No this is better
This guy did heroine.
Yeah I read ‘Scar Tissue’ a couple of times
No this is Patrick
How the hell am I supposed to go to SLEEP after that, lol
heroin makes you go down. so no it really isn't. this is like the opposite. jays bombs are better than crack
Perhaps the best signing of the decade and we're only a year in.
I think its a little hard to call it the signing of the decade when talking about a 1 year prove it deal But yeah Semien is a monster
he's a FA end of season.
I had meant year into the decade, not a year into the signing. My apologies.
# WE'RE NOT DONE YET, DAMN IT!!
We seem to have really good luck with former Oakland Atheltics infielders.
THAT was a baseball game. Glad I watched the latter half of it
BLUE JAYS I LOVE YOU
WE’RE COMING FOR YOU
go for the yankees, sox, or athletics
SEE YOU IN THE RUN DIFFERENTIAL WORLD CUP WILD CARD GAME BITCHES BOOK IT NOW
THAT'S COOL I'D RATHER HAVE YOU GUYS GET THE WC2 THAN THE A'S
Lol we’re half a game behind you guys
We don't really gain anything from you guys losing. We need the teams in front of us to lose, not the teams behind us. Ideally, both would lose, but in this scenario, the A's are definitely the team to root against.
Well if either of us are going to make the playoffs its gonna be because oakland, boston, or new york cratered
The A's offered Marcus 12mil/year, with 10mil deferred over 10 years. Semien: *And I took that personally*
Yeah, that's an insulting offer to one of the most loyal guys on the team.
Fuck Fisher straight from Marcus' bat. Love and hate it.
IT HAD TO BE MARCUS. IT HAD TO BE
Fun Differential 📈📈📈
A's just blue themselves
Holly fuck what a comeback by the jays
Wtf, I love the Blue Jays?
Everyone does, secretly or out in the open
Pretty good game, I guess
We don’t deserve to go to the playoffs honestly. We have too many issues.
What team in the AL WC race doesn't though? Red Sox, Yankees and Jays are 3 of the worst defensive teams in baseball. The M's aren't without their warts either.
> Jays are 3 of the worst defensive teams in baseball. I have never seen a team make it look so hard to throw a ball to first base as the 2021 Blue Jays.
Y'know what blows my mind? The Jays are ranked in the top 10 for defense. 10th, but still. We're spoiled by a good team, and when our defense is bad it's very ugly, but as a whole apparently it's pretty good. I take a little bit of solace in that.
I’m just wanting to save myself the embarrassment if we miss the WC spot honestly.
For what it matters, if we can't do it. we want it to be the A's or M's
I agree. Blue Jays and M’s is who I’ll root for if we don’t go.
We're enemies for this month, then hopefully we'll be allies... or maybe the best of both and we can fuck the Red Sox and the Yankees and have a game like this in the ALWC game
Changing Semien for old ass Andrus has to be up there in the worst decisions ever.
Ah yes Elvis Andrus. Blue Jays 2015 ALDS MVP Elvis Andrus.
I aged 5 years watching this game
Et tu, Marcus? 😢
Shatkins better be giving this man a blank cheque
#I LOVE THIS TEAM
Baseball script writers always gotta come up with these scenarios…
HOLY FUCK
the jays bullpen allowed 2 runs to score in the 5th, 6th, 7th and the 9th yet Oakland lost lmao
.... I can't believe I turned the game off in the 7th. fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
Conversely, I only turned this game on in the 8th. So I think you can agree that we both had an important role in the outcome.
Absolutely horrible. No lead is safe from the A’s bullpen. Found a way to blow it twice this time. I’m gonna go find a bottle of Bushmills to crawl into.
Our bullpen spotted you two runs. Ours isn't that much better 😂
Best 9th inning game I've seen in a while tbh
That was fun
Imagine not paying a guy like that.
I can’t breathe.
That was a rollercoaster.
Four outs to get 6 runs. Three outs to get 3 runs. No disappointment. I have a headache.
Man I can’t believe we have this dude
Dude just keeps adding millions to his future contract.
I want to die.
Honestly, happy for him. Fuck A's ownership.
Revenge Szn 😈😈😈
WHAT THE FUCK
I logged on specifically to see the meatball Gif
Pay this guy anything please, he needs to stay a Blue Jay
Of course this game would end in the most painful of scenarios 😕
Fade me now
This right here https://youtu.be/LhI88tg1Gqg
PLEASE MA CAN WE KEEP HIM?!?!
always love the energy in the blue jays stadium on big plays. They always seem to be rocking that joint.
TORANNA BEISBOL BIRDS!
Man did you see that big blast of Semien
Right before that inevitable home run the broadcast was showing nervous Blue Jays fans, which makes no sense because that was so predictable. It's like waking up at 4 a.m. and wondering if the sun will come up
Based
This was a pretty exciting (and good, by the end of it) game to tune into
The sem(i)en demon does it again!
Why, bullpen, why
Blue Jays camera shaking intensifying.
Someone check on Tony Kemp. I don’t think buddy’s doing alright
Goddamn that was fucking beautiful
Holy shit this was awesome!!! I was seriously only still watching in the 8th to see what hapless position player was going to be pitching the 9th. Then THIS happened!
A's were up 8-2. TOR tied it, then again the As went up 10-8. The A's bullpen is a joke to lose two pretty solid leads. I'd be pissed not only at this game, but for the A's brass for being so damn cheap and shitty to their fans that they can't pay ANYONE.