r/baseball • u/SeattleSporting Seattle Mariners • 11h ago
Athletics broadcast captures an Osprey flying over Seattle with a live fish in its talons
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u/DawgTheHallMonitor Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
Do the Osprey have large talons?
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u/Recurs1ve San Diego Padres 10h ago
I mean, compared to what? General answer is yes, they absolutely do, but not nearly the biggest.
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u/DawgTheHallMonitor Los Angeles Dodgers 10h ago
I appreciate you answering with an honest response but I'll just leave this here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAtoMSjOQ1A
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u/Recurs1ve San Diego Padres 10h ago
Only Napoleon I know is blownapart. And yeah I missed the reference, I'm old leave me alone.
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u/Bosco_stix Chicago Cubs • Kane County Cougars 9h ago edited 9h ago
It gets worse. That movie is now over 20 years old itself!
Sorry, you said leave me alone 😄.
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u/BrewCityChaserV2 Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago
I know camera operators for MLB games are really good at tracking small objects really far away but that is some next level camera tracking work.
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u/JustforthelastGOT Seattle Mariners 7h ago
Reminds me of the Top Gear special in Africa when they realized their camera operators sucked at filming wildlife
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u/DietCherrySoda Toronto Blue Jays 1h ago
At least the ball tends to only fly in a ballistic arc, pretty well predictable. This was very impressive.
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u/Timpa87 Philadelphia Phillies 10h ago
Doordash in shambles
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u/kamakazekiwi Seattle Mariners 5h ago
No this is Doordash. It's a beta feature available in select markets.
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u/About2GetWrecked Seattle Mariners 9h ago
My dad swears that a salmon was dropped in a camera well by a bird earlier this year at T-Mobile.
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u/UnfunkableUFO Seattle Mariners 9h ago
It was. Rick Rizzs posted the video somewhere. It almost nailed the camera guy
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u/About2GetWrecked Seattle Mariners 8h ago
Well, shit. I owe my dad an apology and will probably have to pull him out of that retirement home
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u/donhelio Seattle Mariners 9h ago
I couldn't find video of the bird itself, but a fish did fall out of the sky on July 4 at T-Mobile and nearly struck a member of the production crew. He was behind the 1st base dugout setting up for the broadcast when the fish landed in the row of seats behind him.
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u/trundle_thegreat_ Cleveland Guardians 10h ago
Hate to break it to ya but I don't think that fish is live anymore
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u/stoneman9284 San Francisco Giants 10h ago
Well not now. It might have been during flight though.
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u/Spread_Bater Houston Astros 47m ago
And for those few moments he had the best view any fish had ever seen
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u/not_gizmoz New York Mets 20m ago
Probably couldn't enjoy it on account of the whole suffocating thing though
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u/No_Battle4474 New York Yankees 10h ago
Is the fish ok?
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u/JeanLucPicorgi Seattle Mariners 8h ago
Amateur move, going with the fish instead of the garlic fries.
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u/Dr_Sivio Toronto Blue Jays 10h ago
Osprey do not give a shit. One of the coolest birds in North America, imo.
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u/wiscowonder Seattle Mariners 10h ago
Hard agree. They've got great little chirps and they're easy to identify when they're high up because they look like giant flying M's.
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u/DefNotEzra Seattle Mariners 8h ago
This can’t be anything but a good omen.
The Seahawks are gonna have a great season and Will Ospray will be back by wrestle dream!
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u/Deathstroke317 New York Yankees 8h ago
Is that Osprey's name Will?
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u/CaptainMcSlowly Atlanta Braves 7h ago
It's flying the fish to the Tokyo Dome to have an absolute banger of a match with it
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u/avboden Seattle Mariners 11h ago
This is actually how Pikes Place gets the fish.
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u/ItsTeeEllCee Seattle Mariners 10h ago
Pike
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u/Thromnomnomok Seattle Mariners 5h ago
As repentance for their sin of getting the street name wrong, /u/avboden must say 10 Hail Edgars, feed a Dick's burger to the Fremont Troll, and study carefully the holy scripture of Cornell 3:4
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u/Pretty_Bad_At_Reddit New York Mets 10h ago
no wonder its so expensive!
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u/wiscowonder Seattle Mariners 10h ago
It's honestly pretty competitive with other local fish mongers / counters
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u/Cascadia_14 Seattle Mariners 7h ago
Go to the other fish counters besides the fish tossin boys and it’s usually a pretty decent deal
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u/black-dude-on-reddit 6h ago
That’s kind of a crazy way to go out
Imagine you’re just swimming with the homies and suddenly you’re getting abducted and probably impaled by some asshole who then flies off with you to heights you’ve never seen before while you suffocate
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u/HandBananas Atlanta Braves • Atlanta Braves 7h ago
I totally thought this was about a V22 Osprey.. and was kind of disappointed when I clicked.
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u/GoatLegRedux San Francisco Giants 3h ago
Reminds me of the time a cameraman got a seal enjoying some halibut at a Giants game several years ago
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u/Thrill0728 Chicago Cubs 11h ago
THE OMEN HAS APPEARED! THE SEAHAWKS ARE TO BE FEARED!