{"id":940158,"date":"2026-10-20T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940158\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T14:46:22","slug":"mlb-fans-jumbotron-message-rejecting-relationship-shown-in-viral-photo-from-rays-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940158\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Fan&#8217;s Jumbotron Message Rejecting Relationship Shown in Viral Photo From Rays-Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Getting friend-zoned is one thing, getting friend-zoned in public is another, but getting friend-zoned during an ALCS closeout game in front of over 40,000 fans could be the most understandable villain origin story of all time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">While most fans at Tropicana Field celebrated the Tampa Bay Rays advancing to the World Series with a 7-3 win over the Cleveland Guardians, a poor soul named Derek was left with a jumbotron message thanking him for tickets to Monday night&#8217;s game but rejecting his offer for a relationship:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Surely this message could&#8217;ve been delivered privately, but Derek will now live on in infamy after the rejection photo went viral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Hopefully, the Rays can provide some solace to Derek as they seek their first World Series title against the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getting friend-zoned is one thing, getting friend-zoned in public is another, but getting friend-zoned during an ALCS closeout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-940158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}