TORONTO -- An online video of a trio of New Yorkers going undercover as Toronto Blue Jays fans is gaining momentum as it goes viral on baseball blogs and YouTube.

Entitled A Game of Centimeters: Blue Jays Baseball at the Rogers Center, the video was filmed last August when the Jays were playing the Boston Red Sox. Forgive them for the spelling of centimetre and centre; they are American.

Scott Blumenthal of ninemoreouts.com calls the video of him and two buddies -- Dave Kreshover and Mike Levy -- the first of their 30-stadium tour.

"We just went up there and sort of crashed the party," Blumenthal said yesterday. "We said, 'You know what, we love baseball. Let's try to visit a different stadium once a year and make a goofy movie about it.'"

The concept of the "Stadium Schmadium" tour is fairly simple.

The trio -- two of them fans of the New York Mets, the other the New York Yankees -- go to a stadium to meet fans and experience baseball outside their usual haunts.

But rather than snobby out-of-towners, they portray hometown fanatics.

In the first few minutes of the short video, the men wear jerseys and hats emblazoned with the classic emblems of Toronto's boys of summer.

'BASEBALL MINUTIAE'

"We happen to be sources of a tremendous amount of baseball minutiae so give us any team and we could give you 40 inconsequential people that played for that team and their lifetime batting averages," Blumenthal said.

"Everyone was interested and not everyone knew that they were playing along but they wound up being great sports about it."

It isn't always complimentary. They ask fans if the Jays should have held on to Babe Ruth so he could have been a Jay his whole career. Ruth died in 1948, decades before the Jays were a team.

But that fact seems lost on some fans who agreed Ruth shouldn't have been traded.

They also ask fans if they know former Jays pitcher Dave Steib once threw a ball that went 15 cm/h.

The trio also tries to get fans to sign a petition moving the Jays to the National League West division "so they have a better chance of making the playoffs."

They also rate hotdog-cart mustard (four stars out of five), vendors' "capacity to express love" (five stars) and hotdogs (one star).

"There's nothing wrong with the hotdogs," Blumenthal conceded. "We just wanted an excuse to spit something out and film it ... and do that in context.

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