In recent years, we’ve seen MLB teams go all out with highly produced walk-up videos for closers. The Mets with Edwin Diaz and the Twins with Jhoan Durán are right up there with the best of them. The Mariners, though, may have put together this season’s coolest hype video, and it was astoundingly simple.
As the Mariners went into the bottom of the eighth inning of Friday’s game against the Angels down a run, the videoboard at T-Mobile Park *appeared* to have a technical difficulty. Fans were greeted with the “blue screen of death” and a Microsoft reboot. But it was all a pre-planned video, and it was so good.
Check it out:
It’s rally time baby pic.twitter.com/p2LUTzuGhG
— Jake | Raise The Trident 🏳️🌈 (@RaiseTheTrident) June 1, 2024
I don’t think the fans at T-Mobile Park that night ever imagined that a Word document could get them hyped up, but it certainly worked. Just a couple batters later, Ty France would hit a go-ahead two-run homer. The Mariners would hold on to win, 5-4.
Fans also loved the creativity there. Great job by the stadium production team.
This was how Twitter/X reacted
I hate how much I love my silly little baseball team https://t.co/BSOObVWbvU
— Williamsburg Benny (@benfriedlander) June 1, 2024
Low key the best Microsoft ad I've ever seen, and it wasn't even from them. The @Microsoft marketing team could learn a thing or two. https://t.co/vmHzwV5WJP
— Moral Kombat (@maybe_i_dunno) June 1, 2024
We will only get hyped after a power point presentation tells us to get hyped going forward. https://t.co/M9NOXXG8Ii
— Ladies Who Like Baseball (@LONTDC1) June 2, 2024
How can you not be romantic about baseball https://t.co/d362sa8abB
— this tay is volleyball (@FateSteelTaylor) June 2, 2024
This is SO clever. https://t.co/d8NqaO7pb1
— K. Taylor Flatt (@ktaylorflatt) June 2, 2024
Wait what is this omg https://t.co/YytdndI5GE
— Asher (@asher_971) June 2, 2024
they’re so silly for this https://t.co/yGYUsFy6IO
— afab fiona apple (@nogoodtulip) June 2, 2024
That's really clever. https://t.co/6HNGJJqPgv
— Noah Berger🧩🚂 (@Trainboy100) June 3, 2024
