The Dumbest Reasons To Stop A Baseball Game 

The guy who parachuted into Shea is a great friend. Spent 6 months in prison instead of ratting out his buddy who would’ve no doubt got a much larger sentence.

I'm surprised you didn't mention that this season a Rockies/Orioles game was delayed by a swarm of bees getting on the field and needing to be relocated.

15:35 Up to that point, the Marlins had a graphic that said “It’s been XXX days since the last Marlins Home Rain Delay”. The Marlins stopped showing or announcing this graphic after this Rain Delay, and never did it again.

Was there for the fish delay, probably one of the most traumatizing. Lucky I survived

imagine being in the batters box and seeing the pitcher release the ball then the lights go out 💀

Caldwell also pitched a no hitter like 10 days after being struck by lightning!

"Unfortunately, reports say he was caught." Damn that's disappointing, his escape was pretty impressive.

HAHA I was at that Pickles game! We've really made it now!!! The lights didn't just randomly go out. The park district owns Walker Stadium and usually shuts off the lights at midnight. This night, the game went 12 and they agreed to an extension of 12:15. At 12:15 and one second, boom, lights out, ballgame made up a month later. Go Pickles!

You call them delays, I call them primetime TV

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There was once a baseball game called on account of volcano. The Spokane Indians (at the time the AAA affiliate of the Seattle Mariners) had a game that got canceled as a result of ash from the the Mount St. Helens eruption.

The clearing of the stands into dugout and clubhouse levels for a tornado siren is not a response out of panic. It was the planned safey procedure and is a pretty good plan. Obviously, fans are free to leave if they want but providing shelter underground is probably your safest bet. Barring a worst case scenario (in which theres no way to survive conditions), sheltering under ground level will be your best option to survive. Kudos to those employees and fans acting calm under pressure with a literal siren blaring at them!

I like how I'm watching this during a rain delay at Wrigley Field 💀

During the 2017 total solar eclipse, a number of minor-league games were specially scheduled to coincide with the eclipse and so had the first-ever eclipse delays.

The announcers reaction when the lights went out had me rolling. 😂

"Is it a bird?" "Is it a plane?" "No, it's a dead fish!"

This man gives so much information in a video it's crazy and this man needs the credit

I was at a Mariners game years back where the power went out for 20-30 minutes. It was pretty spooky with all of us just sitting around in the dark.

It was a short delay, but I remember a bird getting obliterated as it flew in front of home plate. I also remember a swarm of bees causing a delay...

I’m really surprised you didn’t mention the bomb threat the twins had at the met in the 60s! Everyone was rushed onto the field but thankfully there was no bomb found

Taking photos with a fire as a joke is the most braves thing ever

I was working at a minor league game several years ago when the game was delayed after the visiting team manager gave away 3rd base to a fan in the middle of a game. It was his way of protesting a bad call by the ump.

I yelled “BASEBALL DOESNT EXIST!” and my dad was like what? 😂

Rick Monday was playing for the Cubs when the flag burning incident took place.

I believe Rick Monday played for the Cubs when he grab the flag off the field. He’s said many times afterwards he still has that flag.

One instance id like to mention- i think it was in the 80s, there was a postponed game at the astrodome. It rained so friggin hard no fans (and personnel) could get to the stadium, so the players and others who were there already, set up tables on the field and ate dinner.

DC two years ago, Nats vs Padres. A shooting took place right outside the stadium. Fans stampeded thinking it was inside. They delayed the game till the next day

I was at the game when Judge was 1 away from 60. No one in the stadium wanted to believe the game would get cancelled, the delay started around around 9:20ish and people stayed till 11:30 till they called it off. I remember my stepdad trying to leave the whole time but me and my friends wouldn’t let him lol. They even started showing the SNF game between the Broncos and 49ers so people wouldn’t get bored.

Everyone laughed at the baseball team with a zamboni but he sure showed them

I remember a Mariners game where FOUR people ran onto the field 1 tried to shake Ichiro's hand and got tackled by a guy who didn't make the tryouts for the seahawks cause damn

Your inflections and storytelling has improved so much over the past two years, keep it up!

The Lucas Sims thing reminded me of the back-and-forth between former Braves pitcher Al Hrabosky and umpire Bob Engel from a game in 1980, where Hrabosky and Engel kept throwing balls back and forth at each other. Coincidentally, Sims and Hrabosky wore the same number.

If he ever does another channel for another fictional sport wouldn't mind seeing a Hockey Doesn't Exist channel. These videos always seem to catch my interest and we would love to see him cover more interesting and unique stories from other fictional sports. Regardless, Loving the content. You're making awesome work 👍

Rick Monday was on the Cubs when he saved the flag. He later played for the Dodgers, and is still a broadcaster with them.

Maybe not so crazy, but the Pittsfield Suns have regular "sun delays". Their ballpark is the historic Wahconah Park, built in 1919. At this ballpark, the batter is facing due west. Back when baseball was a day game, there were no problems. But now that games are regularly played in the evening, they will have a 30-40 minute sundelay as the sun sets, to prevent blinding batters. This is, in other words, a guaranteed and predictable weather delay.

I was at the Orioles game in 2003. I had season tickets on the club level that year and got to meet Maryland governor Robert Ehrlich during the snow delay.

As a Canadian, 2 inches of snow is not a blizzard. A blizzard is when you get a foot of snow in a few hours.

3:38 I would love to play a game of baseball in the snow. Not a blizzard, but just like enough where it’s there and a factor. I mean, Iceball is a thing up here in Minnesota.

14:33 - My team as a kid - Gene Mauch, Bob Boone.....and no-neck Ken Kaiser behind the dish!

Mlb really needs to hire this guy, he makes baseball actually fun

Rick Monday was the Cubs center fielder at that point. He went to the Dodgers the next season.

I'm a Phillies fan, and even I will admit that the Mets guy is the most epic field entrance by a fan ever. It's really pathetic that he got 6 months in jail when the people who caused permanent damage to a coach's hearing got nothing....

4:07 Sorry, I’m a bit of a stickler for corrections, Monday was actually a Cub during the time, but later became a Dodger and won the World Series in 1981

There was a game a few years ago at the Dome in Toronto. Roof was open, it started to rain, so they started closing the roof. The roof got jammed and couldn't close all the way, all the rain on the Dome poured into the field. They were able to get it closed and after a minor delay so the grounds crew could get rid of the puddles, the game continued.

4:15 as the ballboy of the miami marlins I gotta say it was probably one of the funniest things that had happened this season 😂

The fire in Atlanta was also Fred McGriff’s 1st game with the Braves. He had some injured ribs from a brawl that San Diego (the team he was traded from). The fire delayed the game enough so that he could get treatment and play. Then hit the game winning dinger. They had a bobble head night commemorating it, this year on it’s 30th (??) anniversary.

Baseball is the most insane sport and you cannot convince me otherwise.

The only baseball delay I was ever a part of was the last game that Chipper ever played: the infamous "Infield Fly Rule" game, pitting the Braves against the Cards in the 2012 WC Series. Trash RAINED upon the field. It was surreal. Cool video! Baseball is crazy. I love it!

A dead fish fell from the sky at recess for me lol

When I went to college, I worked for the athletic department which allowed me to travel with the baseball team. Two of the craziest things that happened were: 1. We were away at a D1 school more known for their academics than their athletics at the time (but have since become a baseball powerhouse.) It had rained all night and they were trying to dry the field off. They tried to pour gasoline on the infield dirt and rake it out after they set it on fire, but left the gas can in the middle of the field where they just lit the gas. Thankfully somebody grabbed it just before the fire reached it and an explosion happened. 2. Playing at home against another D1 team, but a storm came up after batting practice but before the game started. Because their team manager took off with the team bus, and a locker room wasn’t available, they were stuck staying in the dugout. A small tornado came through knocking down the outfield fence and several trees behind the outfield while all they could do was huddle in the dugout. Thankfully they were all ok..

Very well produced segment! Thanks!

This video has me rolling omg it’s so good 😂 especially the fans running into the field

The intro theme to every Baseball Doesn't Exist video gives me an oddly nostalgic feeling. Doesn't remind me of anything really, just makes me feel like I'm 10 years old again.

You need a part 2 for this topic and include the day disco died at Comiskey park that turned into a riot on the field.

Gotta love that music he puts in the first part of every video, really gets me excited

We had a skunk come on the ball field not just once but twice this year during a game. They stopped play til the skunk left the field. Bad part was the Staduim is local on a Island in the middle of a river. It's the Home of the Double A farm team of the Nationals named the Harrisburg Senators

Last season a Nationals home game was delayed after gunshots were heard outside the stadium. Like that one game in Texas, fans were put into the clubhouses just to be safe

Love the video... only thing about the American Flag segment was that year Rick Monday was the CF for the Cubs when he grabbed the flag.

I'm all for freedom of speech but I cheered when the player saved the flag

I don’t even LIKE baseball but I still pop off whenever I see BDE uploaded

Wait Rick Monday was not a dodger when it happened, he was with the Cubs playing the dodgers in LA when it happened.

I used to play Old-Time Base Ball (yes , it's two words) using the 1861 original seventeen rules.NO GLOVES ! We wore period uniforms and had hand turned wood custom bats. One of the best teams we played was in Greenfield Village in Dearborn (outside Detroit) . They had an actual steam train that ran around the Village & right past the ballfield. The custom was as the train went by it would slow down and blow it's whistle and the players and fans would doff their caps and wave to the passengers on the train. Okay - first time , fine . It was a novel thing . But over the course of the game this went on AT least a half a dozen times with the engineer starting a cheer for the home team (sponsored by the Village) . This got OLD - QUICK. Every other inning that damn train went by and stopped the game so the crowd could root against us.

17:00 The same thing happened in a 3-STORY CAR PARKING LOT 10 minutes from where I live. When the firefighters arrived they couldn't believe that there was no fire hose or fire extinguishers in an indoor car park, one vehicle that caught fire ended up burning more than 300 vehicles and causing the third floor to collapse.

4:00 A true patriot 🫡

Those college teams jousting on the back of players wearing catcher gear using a bat as the lance was hilarious

I was at that Yankees game last year with the lightning, classing it as a core memory because the rain delay was more fun than the game.

spink-u-lar system made me laugh more then it should have xd

How the hell a fish come from the sky

Greatest rain delay ever, at least according to a Cubs fan? WS Game 7, 2016. Who ever could have thought 15 minutes of rain could end 108 years of drought, eh?

The solution to fans rushing the field to attack coaches and players is simple. There are two dugouts full of both people who swing baseball bats for a living and baseball bats. Just employ said professional baseball players wielding baseball bats and put an end to the attack as soon as it starts. As soon as Giancarlo Stanton sends a big swing into the head of some dipshit who stormed the field and hit a coach or a player, nobody will ever storm the field again.

Such a great video. Idk how you manage to come up with such unique video ideas

Love this channel and your content!

Rick Monday was a Cub at the time it was however in Dodger Stadium

"i bet i would've put on the boosters and batman'd into the night" absolute madlad lmfao

I was at the Hendricks game went from top row right behind home plate to behind the sox dugout during the delay

That blizzard damn in Cleveland were made for perfect football!

Remember when the nets behind home plate fell down in the middle of the game in Philly a couple years ago

Can't wait to see Coney react to this 👀

Not this video coming out on the same day that the Dodgers/Tigers had two delays. 1 because of a Goose & 2 because of a Giant Soap Bubble 😂

It's crazy how many absurd reasons for everything they make for a sport that doesn't even exist

Quick little anecdote about the Portland pickles game where the lights went out. The stadium is Walker Stadium. It was renovated by the city of Portland and is operated by the city of Portland parks department that stadium is one of a small handful of fields that the men’s rec league uses in the spring and summer. We pay to play. We generate a lot of money for those fields based on our player fees. When the playoffs rolled around this year, I noticed that during each game at Walker Stadium the chalk looked worse and worse, So I made a small gripe to my coach. Hey, pretty week that the city isn’t chalking our field for the playoffs he agreed so he made a call to the city the following day, and he did get a response. The person told him that the guy who knows how to chalk lines was on two week vacation and nobody else knew how to chalk the fields I’m guessing only one guy knows how to turn on the lights there, too. He left in the ninth. Promise.

imagine getting struck by lighting and then just a few minutes later say "man i wanna throw a complete game can i just get this out real quick?" and then plays on

Opening day 2003 snow delay, I was there for my 30th birthday. We were freezing and it was stupid the umps didn't stop the game sooner. But after the delay the snow stopped and it just went back to being cold.

Man it’s a good day when this guy uploads ❤

Been waiting and waiting and waiting for this video.

1:35 Lights out. Literally.

I remember the snow game. That was wild.

I was at that Yankees game it was the ALDS game 5. They had us waiting till about 10 to reschedule the game till the next day.

12:14 was one of the people promoting the movie smile!

Did anyone mention the 1989 world series experienced an earthquake, and the "subway series between Oakland and san Francisco was postponed for nearly a week or so to inspect the stadiums.

There's an Osprey that lives near where I play softball. I've seen it drop many fish onto the field over the years.

6:29 Stand up guy !! ✈️!

Multiple teams use to have zambones in the MLB during the 70s and 80s. They were parks with artificial surfaces like Veterans Stadium, Three Rivers, Riverfront, etc. Drainage systems were not as good as they are today and the zambonis were used to get the water off the field after it rained. Toronto was not the 1st or the only in MLB history to use them.

these videos read like they were written by AI

I love your videos man! I don’t watch baseball or really care about it but your vids are amazing n I love watching them! I really wish I could find someone like you for football 🏈 n even basketball. Hell I mean basically any sport I could watch you talk about even pillow fighting championships 😂 keep up the amazing work

Rick Monday, what a hero! True patriot, he wasn’t having that.

13:42 XD Sims is a hero Holy wow

Rick Monday was playing for the Cubs were playing at LA.

6:46 I just cant believe BDE is a Braves fan

I played baseball in HS with the guy who got away at the reds game😂