Blue Jays GDT: 2023 v2 | Sun, Apr 16 | vs TB | 1:30pm ET/10:30am PT | McClanahan vs Manoah

[kb]

Merrifield with a nice RBI double after I said that he forgot how to hit.

Who's next? It's obviously working well.

 

[al secord]

Baseball really gets it right with Jackie Robinson Day. Kudos

 

[canucksfan]

At least in the Astros series it looks like the Jays miss Valdez and Brown.

 

[kb]

LOL.....Kikuchi's cellys in the video......

'I'm enjoying the mind games': Kikuchi boasts confidence in win

 

[hockeywiz542]

 

[hockeywiz542]

 

[Cloned]

Jays have won a bunch of games already that they wouldn’t have won last year. Games where they haven’t hit HRs. Defense saving runs against.

So far, so good.

 

[Morgs]

Really hoping Manoah picks it up tomorrow against McClanahan. Sick of arguably our best pitcher looking like shit

 

[The Nemesis]

Need better Romano entrance music though.

I don't know why it took me so long to think of this. Seems obvious in hindsight



Just imagine the lights going down and pulsing on those opening guitar riffs.

 

[MK78]

Really hoping Manoah picks it up tomorrow against McClanahan. Sick of arguably our best pitcher looking like shit

I think the pitch clock really upsets his timing, but being a young guy I'm surprised he's having issues adjusting.

He wasn't quite the definition of a "human rain delay", but he did work pretty slow, walking around the mound between batters, stepping off often, etc.

Maybe also being a quite the big guy, he needed that time to catch a breath.

 

[Beaumaris]

It looked like he saved some to dump on someone else, but I couldn't see who.

Stupid carry on.

 

[hockeywiz542]

 

[sabremike]

Beautiful day for a ballgame!

 

[PanniniClaus]

Franco slept wrong... code for "I spent the night clubbing and i'll puke all over the infield if i have to move quickly.. ". Sunday is the designated day off day with so many hangovers...

 

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

Is there a reason why Luplow is still on this team?

 

[PanniniClaus]

Is there a reason why Luplow is still on this team?

no

 

[hockeywiz542]

Blue Jays emulate Mets broadcast as closer Jordan Romano gets cinematic treatment

Flashing LED lights. Blaring techno music. A Megalodon camera attached to a rig. We’re living in the age of dynamic closer entrances.

theathletic.com

To capture this moment, a lot of moving parts had to come together, from the Blue Jays’ permission and Romano to acquiring the proper equipment to making sure the footage could be broadcast live from field level. To pull it off, it was about a year in the making.

To achieve the cinematic effect, Sportsnet used a specialty DSLR camera attached to a rig that keeps it steady, known as a Megalodon camera.

“It’s all about shallow depth of field,” Clara said. “The concentration is on the subject as opposed to everything else around it.”

The high-resolution Megalodon, as well as four new slo-mo cameras stationed throughout the Rogers Centre, has given Clara and the broadcast team more shots and angles to draw from. It’s all part of an investment Rogers Communications, which owns Sportsnet as well as the Blue Jays, has made into enhancing the broadcast, Clara said. Anything that brings fans closer to the action or players, well, “People love that,” the director said.

As important as the equipment was getting Romano on board, too. Ahead of Toronto’s opening homestand, a member of the Blue Jays public relations team relayed to Romano that Sportsnet was interested in filming him as he headed out to the mound for a save. The 29-year-old was familiar with the video of Díaz and recognized it would be a cool view to grant fans. All the closer requested was the camera person be as inconspicuous as possible.

For Sportsnet, that was easy. Frazao, the cameraman, has experience operating the Megalodon at Toronto Raptors games and walking the line between getting up close and personal while remaining professional. The Blue Jays crew was able to recruit him this year, and Clara said he was eager to pull off a memorable moment with Romano.

“(Frazao) also knows how to push the envelope a bit without getting into trouble,” Clara said. “Because each time, again, it’s about building trust.”

A perfect scenario for Sportsnet would have been capturing it for the first time during Tuesday’s home opener. For a while, it looked like Sportsnet just might. Romano was warming up in the eighth inning with his team up 4-3 on the Detroit Tigers. But Toronto scored five runs in the inning, so Romano didn’t pitch. Their next best chance came Friday, with the Blue Jays trying to halt the Rays’ 13-game winning streak.

The Sportsnet camera was granted access to wait at the bottom of the bullpen stairs, off to the side, and shoot Romano as he was about halfway down the steps and follow him — from about 10 feet behind — as he headed toward the mound.

“We respect that,” Clara said. “He’s got an important job ahead and he’s pretty focused and there is no way, as people covering the game, that we want to influence the game in any way. We just want to capture the moment.”

Romano said Frazao did “a great job” and he “didn’t even notice him.”

 

[canucksfan]

Hopefully Manoah is sharp.

 

[red devil]

Monoah just replicate Kikuchi's start from yesterday. I don't think I ever thought that before one of his starts.

 

[Killer Orcas]

Alright here we go let's go Jays !

 

[red devil]

Hit the batter on the first pitch of the game

 

[go_leafs_go02]

what on earth?

 

[ChuckNorris4Cup]

Great start lol

 

[shaner8989]

Manoah is an absolute disaster. I’d make this a bullpen game before it’s out of control.

 

[Morgs]

Manoah is an absolute disaster. I’d make this a bullpen game before it’s out of control.

Lmao are you a real person