Rake kills a fire drone, a breakdown

Mar 29, 2020 3.2M views 2:10
MLB 2020

What Happened

This is a departure from Jomboy's usual baseball fare. Instead of breaking down a check swing or a benches-clearing argument, he applies the same play-by-play treatment to a combat robotics match. The lineup: a remote-controlled car armed with a garden rake, a knife-equipped Roomba, and a flying drone rigged with fire. Jomboy calls the carnage like it's a walk-off, and the rake somehow dispatches both the drone and the Roomba before doing victory laps. Published March 30, 2020, right as the sports world had gone dark.

Why This Matters

Timing is everything here. This dropped during the early COVID shutdown when MLB had no games to break down, and Jomboy needed content. Pivoting the breakdown format to BattleBots-style robot combat showed how portable his commentary style really is. The bit works because the analysis structure stays identical: matchups, momentum swings, the underdog angle. Calling a rake 'built to rake leaves' beating 'a drone with fire' is the same logic he'd use for a soft-tosser shutting down a power lineup. It racked up 3.2 million views, proving the audience would follow the voice anywhere, not just to the diamond. For a channel built on baseball, this was an early sign the brand could stretch beyond the sport whenever the schedule forced it.

At 3.2 million views and ranked 44th of 1,583 breakdowns, this robot detour sits in the top 2.8% of everything Jomboy's made, which is wild for a video with zero baseball in it.

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okay guys we got a wild one here we got

a remote-controlled car with the rake

versus a Roomba with some knives

attached and then also there's a drone

flying around I believe the drone and