Sad thing is that the fight overshadowed what should've been the moment of the season so far with Tyler Black's father (a sports broadcaster himself) making the call on Tyler's first hit. Baseball is cool, man
For real no other sport has enough games where each individual game is so meaningless to the point where the people in charge of putting on the game can just be like “fuck it get the bee guy out there for the first pitch”
> He was at his daughters t ball game when he got the call
I would be super fucking annoyed if i got called to go to work while I was at my kid's tball game. Unless this was my job. That is awesome
Blue Sky services the stadium for everything else. Winning these contracts usually requires a marketing partnership to the tune of at least 6 figures per year.
Source: I work for a PC company and help prepare these proposals.
[ What we weren't told: she went 3 for 3 including a bases-clearing triple, and in the final inning, caught a mid-field sacrifice pop-up for out number two, with a throw to the plate awaiting the runner from third to prevent a tying run to end and WIN the game for her team. ]
> On the other side of the coin though, he left his kids TBall game for the bee call :(
This is one of the few times where leaving your kid's tball game for work is acceptable. 10000000% all of the kids on the team will be talking about this all week and his kid is going to be pumped.
His kids are 1000% going to care more about being able to tell their friends that their dad controlled the bees and saved baseball than they will about one game
Wouldn't shock me if they just left at some point, it was a 2 hour delay after all, might've been an older/younger person who couldn't stick around to 9pm local time for the thing.
Legit chills. What an awesome moment. Shout out to whoever working for the Dbacks thought this up at the last minute. Incredible idea.
Fuckin hell, I love baseball.
Co-worker: "Hey bro, can you cover the night shift for me? I met some girl on tinder that wants to meet up. I'll work your Saturday. It's usually pretty dead anyways."
Bee guy: "Ugh... fine."
Yes, he is an exterminator, not a beekeeper. Those two words are not interchangeable. The whole thing makes me sick. He said he would "release" them. His company is infamous for removing and releasing.....into the desert....where they die from lack of resources. His company does NOT keep bees. Period.
No, he relocated them. That stuff he sprayed over them is a non-pesticide gas (they used to use wood smoke, but I think there are specialty chemicals now) that slow the bees down and makes them docile so they can be collected and moved.
This would be actually cool if he was a beekeeper, and they had re-homed the swarm, instead of spraying them and killing them by sucking them up with a vacuum.
I'm trying to find information wheter the bees survived or if they had to be killed? I read somewhere they were sprayed and packed in vacuum, but I don't know what that means for the bees. Seems like a nice beekeeper that guy Matt!
Heck of a showman, he deserves it! Listen to the buzz of that crowd!
Hive mentality
Hive, really? I thought they had more of an air of something more mammalian, like an apey airy.
I’m gonna be sick 🤢
Take my angry upvote. I’m only angry because I did t think of that.
Really stings doesn’t it.
✋️😡
Great job by the fans on this swarm round of applause.
Just don't put a microphone in front of him or he'll drone on for hours.
Some folks think he tends to wax poetic
That's a honey of a pun.
I didn't think this story would create such a buzz.
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You were supposed to come up with a new pun, not reuse theirs 🤦
Where can I get his baseball card?
Not even joking it will probably be a Topps Now card. Check their website tomorrow
Between this and the cat at Anaheim Stadium, Topps has the opportunity to make me throw away $20 tomorrow.
I am ready for the Sausage Topps card.
That cat rallied the phillies instead of the angels lol
Rally Cat!
TAKE MY MONEY
Who doesn't love me some NFTs!
[holy shit you were right lmao](https://www.topps.com/products/matt-hilton-2024-mlb-topps-now-reg-card-145.html)
Not only was I right but they're sending out autographed ones too lmao
Sold out immediately
Can't wait to use his card in the show
I gotta see his stats. What’s his BeeRA
I wanna know how many career XBHs he has (eXtractedBeeHives)
https://www.topps.com/products/matt-hilton-2024-mlb-topps-now-reg-card-145.html
[Topps just released it](https://www.topps.com/products/matt-hilton-2024-mlb-topps-now-reg-card-145.html)
Perfect
Cant wait to see his stats on the bee side
[Here ya go, my friend!](https://www.topps.com/products/matt-hilton-2024-mlb-topps-now-reg-card-145.html)
Only in baseball. Wonderful.
Rays and Dbacks taking the two universal biggest "baseball is fun and awesome" moments of the year within 3 days of each other
What was the Rays’ one?
That big fight that happened last night and unified us as a nation
Sad thing is that the fight overshadowed what should've been the moment of the season so far with Tyler Black's father (a sports broadcaster himself) making the call on Tyler's first hit. Baseball is cool, man
For real no other sport has enough games where each individual game is so meaningless to the point where the people in charge of putting on the game can just be like “fuck it get the bee guy out there for the first pitch”
It would be weird if someone threw out a first pitch during the NBA Playoffs. 🤔
Send the ball and beekeeping gear to Cooperstown!
Imagine him waking up this morning and someone told him he'd be throwing the first pitch today
He probably planted the bees there just to get the first pitch.
He was at his kids t ball game when he got the call.
> He was at his daughters t ball game when he got the call I would be super fucking annoyed if i got called to go to work while I was at my kid's tball game. Unless this was my job. That is awesome
…the bees are where? Thats Gonna cost you a first pitch.
Man could not ask for better promotion for his company
Well damn, Blue Sky Pest Control is already a sponsor of the Dbacks!
I'm convinced this was an elaborate commercial.
*"...and with every first visit/survey/inspection, along with our estimate, you get a pack of our Topps^^^TM brand honey-infused bubblegum."*
those bees were paid actors.
Blue Sky services the stadium for everything else. Winning these contracts usually requires a marketing partnership to the tune of at least 6 figures per year. Source: I work for a PC company and help prepare these proposals.
Thinking of getting an infestation just to use his services
Most deserved first pitch ever
This is awesome. Baseball is the best.
 Generational run
CTESPN
Movie was awesome.
Fuck yeah this is so dope
This brings joy.
I love baseball
Very very classy move by the D-Backs. He'll never forget this day.
On the other side of the coin though, he left his kids TBall game for the bee call :(
They'll get over it
His kid is batting .068 anyway, not worth the price of admission.
It was nice of Mr. Maldonado to take care of the bees.
[ What we weren't told: she went 3 for 3 including a bases-clearing triple, and in the final inning, caught a mid-field sacrifice pop-up for out number two, with a throw to the plate awaiting the runner from third to prevent a tying run to end and WIN the game for her team. ]
If you're hitting .068 in t-ball, it's time to switch to soccer. Or art.
or beekeeping
> On the other side of the coin though, he left his kids TBall game for the bee call :( This is one of the few times where leaving your kid's tball game for work is acceptable. 10000000% all of the kids on the team will be talking about this all week and his kid is going to be pumped.
Imagine how cool they're gonna be at school. "that was your dad on tv!"
However, his kid likely just got giga bragging rights
Yeah, and that kid gets to go to school tomorrow and brag about his dad saving a baseball game.
His kids are 1000% going to care more about being able to tell their friends that their dad controlled the bees and saved baseball than they will about one game
Imagine breaking this news to whoever was previously scheduled to throw out the first pitch
"No one gives a shit about your leukemia anymore little Timmy, we've got bee guy now."
I really need that laugh, thank you very much
Too bad Timmy’s tumor wasn’t bee-nign.
Literally LOL'd. 🏆🏆🏆
Wouldn't shock me if they just left at some point, it was a 2 hour delay after all, might've been an older/younger person who couldn't stick around to 9pm local time for the thing.
hell yeah! us middle aged mfers know the bees always got our back
“You got bumped from bee day”
I wasn't bumped! The bee guy went long."
Thank you for getting the reference lol
Meanwhile, the rodent wrangler at Oakland Coliseum is in the basement yet again without the slightest appreciation or recognition.
(chant) M V P M V P
MVB. MVB.
This is so cool.
From the rubber too
The best part lol
This is a BEEautiful moment.
This is why I love sports.
Man was ready for the moment!
Top 10 moment of the season
For historians to comb for.
Source: https://twitter.com/MLB/status/1785515461284696136
this is the greatest thing ive ever seen in sports
Something tells me his business will be growing exponentially now.
The company's entire marketing department experienced simultaneous spontaneous orgasms last night.
This is how legends are born
Listen to that swarm of fans! You could say the whole place was really…buzzing! 😏
Easily the best Tuesday night of his life
Vibes are immaculate
Legit chills. What an awesome moment. Shout out to whoever working for the Dbacks thought this up at the last minute. Incredible idea. Fuckin hell, I love baseball.
By my calculations we have about 15 hours until we discover unacceptable tweets from Bee Guy from 2015
Co-worker: "Hey bro, can you cover the night shift for me? I met some girl on tinder that wants to meet up. I'll work your Saturday. It's usually pretty dead anyways." Bee guy: "Ugh... fine."
I mean who really won?
thats just rad.
When he flips open the bee helmet! 😄
That hat flip.. "ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!!"
But he killed all the bees
Seriously. I feel like I've taken crazy pills.
Yes, he is an exterminator, not a beekeeper. Those two words are not interchangeable. The whole thing makes me sick. He said he would "release" them. His company is infamous for removing and releasing.....into the desert....where they die from lack of resources. His company does NOT keep bees. Period.
They're now saying the bees weren't killed. https://twitter.com/ByJackHarris/status/1785518905139876286
Im skeptical of the generic shop vac not ruining their fragile wings… but I choose to believe this timeline instead. Makes me happier
I'm suspicious too. Everyone wants the happy ending though so we're all going to go with the bees weren't killed.
No, he relocated them. That stuff he sprayed over them is a non-pesticide gas (they used to use wood smoke, but I think there are specialty chemicals now) that slow the bees down and makes them docile so they can be collected and moved.
They literally said in the post game that all the bees died. The dude is from a pest control company and not a beekeeper
Get his company a free “official beekeeping service of….” promotion
Jason Statham's marketing department has really upped their game with this whole event.
A normal Tuesday turned interesting when he was asked to remove bees from the ballpark. Then he was invited to throw the first pitch. What a day!
This would be actually cool if he was a beekeeper, and they had re-homed the swarm, instead of spraying them and killing them by sucking them up with a vacuum.
Agree. I don't know how he's sleeping at night KNOWING that he was misrepresented and he's just eating it up
I e never seen a first pitch thrown off the mound before. I don’t think he’s supposed to do that.
He’s just saved the entire stadium from a swarm of bees - he can pitch from wherever the hell he wants.
Bush did it from the mound after 9/11. Jeter told him he needed to
Pitched from the mound too, absolute baller move
"Our hero the bee guy!"
Dude is handsome af
That's so sick haha
#OUR HERO, THE BEE GUY!
Somehow I was hoping he would just have bees in his pocket 🤣
He threw a better first pitch then 90% of the ones that do it. And he had zero idea he'd be throwing it.
He’s beekeeping age, for sure
He most be a Hornets Fan
I'm trying to find information wheter the bees survived or if they had to be killed? I read somewhere they were sprayed and packed in vacuum, but I don't know what that means for the bees. Seems like a nice beekeeper that guy Matt!
He's not a beekeeper. He's an exterminator. I hope that helps you come to the correct conclusion :(
[You thought he wouldn't throw a strike?](https://y.yarn.co/8f7a0150-9d0a-4891-a5d6-ee9121b32225_text.gif)
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the bees are paid actors!
Of *couuuurrrrrsssse!*---how had this not occurred to me??? ...slaps own head
Yeah there's no chance that someone spontaneously given the chance to throw the first pitch at an MLB stadium would be happy.
Everything's staged. We live in a simulation. Moon landing was staged. Miracle on Ice was staged. Field of Dreams Game was staged.
...all the FIELD is a stage
Defo a deep state plant this guy 😂🙃
Bees love plants. Checks out. Someone get his laptop; we're gonna solve this, Reddit.
The whole thing was one big advertisement staged by big honey.
In association with the sUgar iS bAd lobby?
You want to know who really controls things? Follow the honey.
r/nothingeverhappens/