On Friday, Orioles commentators sparked a firestorm during a Blue Jays game with a remark about the “baseball IQ of some Canadians” amid a late pickoff, drawing social-media backlash as Toronto rolled 6-1 to take the AL lead and Baltimore sat last in the division. The incident fits a pattern of rival broadcast banter between Jays and Orioles voices, echoing Buck Martinez’s recent viral jab at the Yankees and underscoring the spicy cross-border dynamics in this AL East season.