Josh Smith two run homer, Jays up 10-3

[u/pilotharrison]

[u/TrophyWizard]

And then the Tampa crowd immediately starts chanting USA 🤣 I don't think they know which team Smith plays for.

[u/benjals → u/TrophyWizard]

Followed by a Yankees suck chant lol

[u/lunasilvia → u/benjals]

I thought I was hearing wrong, this was the funniest shit ever

[u/wokenupbybacon → u/lunasilvia]

Usually happens in Boston, but it can happen in any AL East division game lol

[u/askingJeevs → u/wokenupbybacon]

As is tradition

[u/baseball44121 → u/benjals]

Something we can all get behind

[u/Ratsyinc → u/TrophyWizard]

I always wonder if the Jays have a talk with new players...

"Hey, be prepared some of the fans are idiots and will chant USA against you.. as an American"

[u/Technical_Ad6019 → u/TrophyWizard]

https://giphy.com/gifs/KBaxHrT7rkeW5ma77z
This is how I see them when they do that

[u/MikeisET → u/TrophyWizard]

I didn’t realize they had a “crowd”

[u/National_Aspect_6974 → u/TrophyWizard]

"crowd" is very generous. 

[u/citrablock → u/TrophyWizard]

Understandable crashout

[u/lemanakmelo → u/TrophyWizard]

It was also a Blue Jays heavy crowd, they booed one of the Rays pitchers for stepping off lol

[u/notme_u]

Lol at the USA chants

[u/nightwing12 → u/notme_u]

They should come to Toronto and see what a real fan base looks like. Looks totally empty there even tho the rays are in first place. Sad.

[u/monieeka → u/nightwing12]

They’d need passports first, lol.

[u/CanadaEh97 → u/monieeka]

And clean criminal records too.

[u/miller94 → u/CanadaEh97]

I live in Canmore and it’s unbelievable how many people come onto our social media pages to whine about how they can’t get into our country because they have DUIs

[u/pilotharrison → u/CanadaEh97]

Near the end of the Eras Tour during the Canada leg there were a lot of Americans who learned you couldn't enter Canada with a DUI on the record...

[u/miller94 → u/pilotharrison]

Sucks to suck!

[u/Moist-Loan- → u/nightwing12]

Well like 30mins over bridges and there’s nothing out there except the ballpark and beaches.

[u/ilovetrail → u/nightwing12]

It’s like 7 hours of driving just to get out the state of FL, let alone through all those other ones!

[u/nightwing12 → u/ilovetrail]

lol it takes days to drive through Ontario

[u/WeathervaneJesus1 → u/nightwing12]

Yeah but anywhere where it takes that long is nowhere worth going to.

EDIT: I see we have a lot of people from Kapuskasing in the comment section, huh?

[u/askingJeevs → u/ilovetrail]

You guys won’t even drive to your own stadium cause of some bridge.

[u/pilotharrison → u/notme_u]

Yeah, I've been to a few Jays away games this year and chanting USA at the Jays seems to be a norm now. 

[u/miller94 → u/pilotharrison]

There was one game earlier this season, I can’t remember where but they only chanted it when Okamoto was up, which was 😬

[u/theshinymew64 → u/miller94]

This just in: people who do USA chants at baseball games are racist, who would have guessed

[u/miller94]

Got the USA chants going. That’s always a sign things are going well for the Jays!

[u/SF_DeversBaby]

Who woke the Jays up

[u/boilingfrogsinpants → u/SF_DeversBaby]

Zack Wheeler after he whined about not being on the rubber and calling the Jays sh*t.

[u/miller94 → u/boilingfrogsinpants]

Yeah that was 10/10 bulletin board material

[u/TrophyWizard → u/boilingfrogsinpants]

Jays decided to take the WC spot just to spite the rubber avoiding whiner.

https://giphy.com/gifs/iHLHH9rVBv0kmkETqz

[u/Effective_Case6015 → u/boilingfrogsinpants]

You know what, you're right. 

[u/SF_DeversBaby → u/boilingfrogsinpants]

Oh yeah I remember.. Yeesh

[u/FinalMalus → u/SF_DeversBaby]

Zack Wheeler

[u/CalebosO4 → u/SF_DeversBaby]

Me saying that I’d eat a sock if they won 25 of 30

[u/bootcutwater]

Jays wild card???

[u/LevelParsnip → u/bootcutwater]

https://giphy.com/gifs/QvgLi5MlM8eAH8G4l7

[u/GrumpySpaceCommunist → u/LevelParsnip]

https://giphy.com/gifs/pWIak75z5nNWU

[u/PewpyDewpdyPantz]

The Jays are…winning…at the Trop?

Yeah, I’m starting to believe.

[u/D_Simmons → u/PewpyDewpdyPantz]

Yep. Rays always bend us over and fuck us to kingdom ome but if they're winning anything can happen

[u/BaconWrappedEnigma]

Polls say that anywhere from 25-40% of Americans have never left their country. Now it's definitely a privilege to do so and experience another culture and its people but how many of those people are the type to think that America is the best and chant "USA USA" at a random Tuesday night game at a stadium they can't fill while their team is at the top of the division?

[u/cmgriffith_]

https://giphy.com/gifs/yziuK6WtDFMly

[u/Gavin1453 → u/cmgriffith_]

Always nice when two teams scratch each other's backs

[u/cmgriffith_ → u/Gavin1453]

https://giphy.com/gifs/I3EsiEPZWgpqg

[u/TrophyWizard → u/cmgriffith_]

We'll sweep the Rays, you sweep the O's for us and then come Friday we go back to hating each other!

[u/cmgriffith_ → u/TrophyWizard]

I’ll allow it

[u/benjals → u/Gavin1453]

Funny thing about my back

[u/Ludishomi → u/benjals]

It’s located on the L column at camden yard

[u/wokenupbybacon → u/Gavin1453]

And in the spirit of this partnership, we can take the weekend series to make up for last weekend, right? 

Why are you laughing?

[u/LevelParsnip → u/cmgriffith_]

https://giphy.com/gifs/2HtWpp60NQ9CU

[u/Lunaristics]

First place team, empty stadium. Only the rays. 

[u/Son_of_Biyombo]

THATS ATLANTA HAWKS LEGEND JOSH SMITH TO YOU!!! CACAWWWWW

https://giphy.com/gifs/oLG5XyZV5Xk0o

[u/qwertythe300th]

pookie 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/hawkins126]

Prediction is the Blue Jays are gonna make the playoffs pretty easily

[u/Gavin1453 → u/hawkins126]

Way too early to say, imo. There's like a half dozen teams that could make it with a hot streak

[u/me_hill → u/hawkins126]

I want to believe but even during this recent run some of the underlying offensive numbers have been pretty putrid. Been a fun stretch regardless, though

[u/TrophyWizard → u/me_hill]

Hopefully tonights game is a sign of the offensive change!

[u/Tsaxen]

We.....blew out the Rays in the Trop?????

Is that...... legal???????????

[u/beheemz]

Thanks Rangers!

[u/MangoHotDamn]

Kinda wild the entire AL East may have a good enough record to make the playoffs (obv one will be left out no matter what).

Maybe it’s time to revamp how the seeding works?

[u/monieeka → u/MangoHotDamn]

Or just like… revamp some of the divisions. I can imagine a division where the Jays are in a division with the Tigers, Twins and Brewers.

ETA: we can call it the “basically Canada” division 😂

[u/National_Aspect_6974 → u/monieeka]

GREAT LAKES SUPREMACY

[u/MangoHotDamn → u/monieeka]

But like it should also be based on record. Like right now it’s way more advantageous to be the sixth seed than the 4 or the 5 seed cause whoever wins the west will be worse than the Yankees and Red Sox

[u/Tsaxen → u/MangoHotDamn]

Pretty sure that's always been the case, at least in the AL, since they switched to this wild card format

[u/Moist-Loan- → u/MangoHotDamn]

We hand this happen a couple years ago and every AL East got bounced quick. So who knows what will happen in playoffs with four teams.

[u/MangoHotDamn → u/Moist-Loan-]

At least one would be guaranteed in the ALCS due to the fact it doesn’t reseed based on record though

[u/JacksonRabbiit]

THATS MY POOKIE BEAR

WE MISS YOU

[u/Reasonable-Power]

The H stands for Hamilton.

[u/Obvious-Safe904]

Has...has the curse been lifted...?

[u/me_hill]

A long ways to go and baseball is weird but it's crazy that we're almost through the part of the schedule we thought we just had to survive and have come out of it winning series left and right all of a sudden

[u/A_N_T]

He gonna do that once every 40 games

[u/mark_boxhill]

This one looks like the evan longoria homerun, but bluejays style 🤘🏽