he proposed between innings and she said "wtf are you doing?", a breakdown
What Happened
During a Brooklyn Cyclones game in 2022, a between-innings promotion turned into an on-field marriage proposal that went sideways fast. After the third inning, a man got pulled into a stadium game with his girlfriend, then dropped to a knee and proposed in front of the crowd. Her response, as Jomboy reads it, was a flat refusal and a confused 'wtf are you doing,' leaving the boyfriend distraught while the cameraman, the mascot, and a costumed Mattress King host all stood frozen. The whole scene played out on the live in-stadium feed with no audio, which is exactly why Jomboy breaks it down lip-reading style.
Why This Matters
Minor league ballparks live on between-innings stunts, and the proposal bit is the riskiest one a club can run. There's no script the team controls once a couple takes the field, and the Cyclones got a reminder of why. Jomboy spends most of the video debating whether it's staged, pointing to the polished camera work and the way the cameraman keeps rolling as the tell. That uncertainty is the real hook here. Whether real or performance art, it spread because the awkwardness is universal, the kind of thing every fan pictures going wrong. For a Class A affiliate of the Mets, this clip put eyes on the Cyclones that no walk-off would. The takeaway for promo crews everywhere: confirm the answer before you hand over the microphone.
At 1.3M views this sits at #213 of 1,583 Jomboy breakdowns, top 13.5% of the catalog, proving a botched proposal travels further than most actual baseball.
Key Moments
Who / What Is Involved
Players: Aaron.
Full Transcript
Click timestamps to jump to that momentthe third inning just ended at the
brooklyn cyclos game and luckily minor
league they don't go to commercial they
just keep it on the field but there's no
audio and this woman she's like come on
honey come on but he's got his hand in
his pocket because the ring's in there
and he doesn't want to be too close and
he's like checking the pocket okay tap
tap it's there it's there it's there he
looks good he loves his hat she's got a
cute headband on the king himself he's
gonna explain okay we got a lucky
contestant blah blah blah blah and uh
the
non-fiancee on the left he's getting
nervous he's getting nervous they're
gonna distract her a classic game okay
look how happy she is you're gonna look
at the board
okay and you're gonna have to give me
the first three words that come to mind
i don't know what the game is
so now they're looking and look at our
uh boyfriend he's got his hand in his
pocket he's nervous he's nervous
forgetting his cue forgetting his cue
forgetting his cue
is it now is it now okay and look how
nervous he is
look how nervous he is are you filming
are you filming now the only reason i do
think this might be fake it's pretty
well acted a fake it's because the
camera guy on here is doing like
i don't know a bang-up job
just filming and it looks like
well here you go all right ready he
comes across
and her whole body language changes and
he says
will you marry me
and she
will you marry me
what's wrong wrong when you were
marrying me
what's wrong it's like you know i didn't
want this you know what i can't do this
hey what's wrong what's wrong stop it
hey what's wrong
you embarrassed you know i can't do this
she's like no
i just told you you're serious right now
i can't do this
and i don't know if this is
because if this if this is scripted that
that zoom right there is so funny
they're having the most intimate
personal conversation when the couple
could have and you zoom out and you got
bob ross's grandson on the camera uh
a duck with a a baseball hat and
the mattress king and the mattress
king's jaw's gonna drop right here
ah
i can't do this stop get off why you
keep going down i can't do this
what are you doing get out of here
mattress king's face right here it's
pretty good like oh
do i step in and the duck's got his arm
around his shoulder ooh
am i supposed to stop this and the ducks
laugh
the duck's left hand feels just as bad
as the man's left hand is that duck i
don't know what that is cyclone um
and then our guy in the crocs over here
he's still filming which is the big you
know this is actors and fake because
this guy would stop filming right right
like there's no way this dude lets this
play out
then ends hitting record and then says
hey hey i have the video you guys wanted
like so it's got to be fake but it's
still
it's a it's a good it's a good one if
it's fake but i don't know because she
seemed pretty upset he's distraught and
then you zoom out and there's a whole
bunch of baseball players watching and
[ __ ] screech is still filming
the players are laughing
the people in this crowd laughing at him
look at this guy up here catcher's
looking they're all laughing this guy
can't believe it he's got his head in
his hands laughing this guy's clapping
next to his wife
that might not be the best time to clap
man
oh man
so then the announcer's had some fun i
think the batter steps to the plate
and he can't contain himself let's see
yeah he's just smiling
and it's uh
man
it's something you always
think you're gonna see and
maybe it's real maybe it's fake but made
me laugh either way