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"OK Blue Jays" is a pop baseball fight song played during the seventh-inning stretch of home games of the Toronto Blue Jays, a Major League Baseball team based in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The song includes references to the team's roster and events from the 1980s, and is played after the horn blows at the Rogers Centre. [1]
In 1983, Hampshire, with the Bat Boys, recorded a song entitled "OK Blue Jays" which became an unofficial anthem for the Toronto Blue Jays Major League Baseball team. [7] Blue Jays fans frequently sing it during the seventh-inning stretch of home games. The song was written by Alan Smith, Pat Arbour, Jack Lenz and Tony Kosinec.
The Jays – Short version of "Blue Jays". The Blue Birds – Another name due to their mascot being a Blue Jay. The Birds – Reference to jays, which are birds. The Blue Hyays – The popular Spanish pronunciation of the Blue Jays. The Blow Jays [71] – Used when they are playing terribly. The BJ's – Shorter version of "Blue Jays".
The Blue Jays' former radio play-by-play announcer, Tom Cheek, called every Toronto Blue Jays game from the team's inaugural contest on April 7, 1977, until June 3, 2004, when he took two games off following the death of his father—a streak of 4,306 consecutive regular-season games and 41 postseason games. Cheek later died on October 9, 2005 ...
He was the first Blue Jays player to win, the first Canadian citizen to win, and the youngest All-Star Game MVP at age 22 and 119 days, beating Ken Griffey Jr. when he was 22 and 236 days. [61] On September 6, in a game against the New York Yankees , Guerrero hit his 40th home run of the season, joining his father as the second father-son duo ...
The Blue Jays finishing fourth in the American League East with a record of 89 wins and 73 losses, starting a streak of 11 consecutive winning seasons. It was the team's first season to use the song " OK Blue Jays " in the seventh-inning stretch.
Martinez was released by the Blue Jays on November 12, 1986, and became a free agent. [1] He was immediately summoned for a meeting with team management, and executive vice president Paul Beeston offered him an opportunity to be a part of the Blue Jays' television broadcast team. Martinez turned down the offer, hoping to instead continue his ...
This is a list of nicknames of Major League Baseball teams and players. It includes a complete list of nicknames of players in the Baseball Hall of Fame, a list of nicknames of current players, nicknames of popular players who have played for each major league team, and lists of nicknames grouped into particular categories (e.g., ethnic nicknames, personality trait nicknames etc.). [1]