Blue Jays get introduced to Beck's hit song 'Loser' at Orioles home opener
The Baltimore Orioles are the defending American League East champions, and they want the Toronto Blue Jays to know it.
It's common courtesy for the visiting team to get introduced first at any respective home opener in the majors, usually to a chorus of boos, but the Orioles took it one step further with an interesting choice of music to accompany Toronto players. The PA system blared American alternative rock musician Beck's instrumental version of the hit song "Loser" while the Blue Jays were being introduced.
Here's a refresher of the single released in 1993 if you haven't heard it before:
Twitter was quick to respond to the controversial song selection with opinions being split between the two fan bases:
#Orioles playing the track to Beck's Loser for Blue Jays intros. Now that's trolling well done
— JP Finlay (@JPFinlayCSN) April 10, 2015
Zero class in the @Orioles organization after playing @beck loser during announcement of the @BlueJays today #GrowUp
— Geoff Dietrich (@ShepDiddley) April 10, 2015
Wow! Keep it classy #Orioles. Playing "I'm a Loser" to the Jays player and coaching staff intros? #BlueJays
— André Darmanin (@andredarmanin) April 10, 2015
See, that's just funny. Bravo, Baltimore. RT @ShiDavidi: #BlueJays get introduced to instrumental version of Beck's Loser
— Jen (@intothecurve) April 10, 2015
Both squads enter the opener of the three-game weekend set at Camden Yards with identical 2-1 records to share the early division lead with the Boston Red Sox.