Fan behind home plate stealing the show at Blue Jays games

Fans of the Toronto Blue Jays that have been following the team for years have come to recognize a familiar face seated behind home plate at Rogers Centre.

“Home plate lady,” as she is affectionately known to the online portion of the fanbase, has been a fixture in the second row of the ‘in the action’ seats closest to the field for as long as most fans can remember. She was even the subject of a light feature a few years ago, where she revealed that she was a longtime season-ticket holder but preferred to remain anonymous.

While we may not know her name, loyal Blue Jays fans know her face, and with a pair of viral clips from Toronto’s opening homestand, she’s now quickly becoming a league-wide star.

First, there was her complete lack of reaction to a rocket sent directly into the screen just a few feet in front of her face on Saturday.

All due respect to the legions of impressed tweeters, but you don’t sit in those seats every single game year-in and year-out without sharpening your reflexes to the point of boredom at lasers hit directly at you. Only a first-timer, a rookie, an absolute rube would still be flinching at stuff like that.

Then, on Monday night, with the Blue Jays offense providing basically nothing to get excited about or even pay attention to, she proved that she’s aware of the gag regarding the ice in her veins.

“Ooh! A line drive! So scary!”

There’s nothing like a veteran of the game mockingly throwing her hands up in shock to really drive home the point that it’s absolutely nothing for her to stunt in the front row. She and her lady friends all share a laugh, as if the idea of a grown adult being shook by a baseball travelling 100MPH directly at them when there is such an impenetrable protective force like a thin wire screen in the way is impossible to take seriously.

Flinch? At a line drive? Can you imagine such a thing?

Mocking the idea of being scared of a line drive is an absolute boss move, and calls to mind something that the 1% who can afford such luxuries to sit so close to the game can take a cue from: Act like you’ve been there before. Don’t flinch, don’t start the wave, and for the love of everything don’t call someone you know and wave at the camera.

Home plate lady forever.

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