The Weeknd Goes to Bat For Toronto Blue Jays in Home Team Playoff Hype Video: ‘Timeless Moments? We’ve Had a Few’

The Weeknd is all-in to root, root, basal for his location team. The Toronto autochthonal gets down the city’s Blue Jays successful a caller promo hyping the squad’s ALCS tally connected their mode to what they anticipation volition beryllium their archetypal changeable astatine a World Series rubric since back-to-back wins successful 1992 and 1993.

The two-minute clip acceptable to the Weeknd’s 2024 Pharrell Williams-produced Playboi Carti collab “Timeless,” the video opens with the echoing strains of Abel’s vocals acceptable implicit a montage of images of Toronto astatine archetypal light, melodramatic shots of the Jays’ Rogers Centre location tract and the grounds unit getting the tract acceptable arsenic an announcer excitedly hypes the team’s archetypal playoff bid triumph since 2016.

“Timeless moments, we’ve had a few,” the Weeknd says successful a voice-over successful the clip that mixes successful highlights from the team’s astir iconic victories. “Pieces of past turned into everlasting memories. Now, these Blue Jays, equipped with a caller borderline and a never-say-die cognition find themselves connected the brink of a bequest each connected their own. Our city, buzzing. Our nation, consumed. Canada’s squad conscionable 1 measurement person to fulfilling the eventual goal.”

“Oh, the metropolis connected occurrence erstwhile I’m comin’ home/ Fill up the sky, capable up the Dome/ They’ll play it 1 day, it’s a hellhole of a show,” the Weeknd sings implicit footage of the squad celebrating their title run. “Every swing, each enactment bringing america person to a caller destiny and a accidental to go eternal, unforgettable. And timeless.”

The Jays came up abbreviated during their archetypal ALCS match-up with the Seattle Mariners connected Sunday, losing 3-1 successful the archetypal of the best-of-seven series; the teams volition beryllium backmost astatine it successful Toronto connected Monday nighttime (Oct. 13).

Check retired the Weeknd’s Blue Jay’s promo video below.