Only my daughter could hear me yell the “f*** yea, let’s go!!!!” when George Springer hit the go ahead – and subsequently series-winning – home run in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.

From the third inning onward, I had to listen to the game on the Fan 590 in the car on our way home from soccer practice. Yes, it was that long a drive.

But there was something nostalgic about having the game on the radio while in the car.

Back before streaming music and podcasts and Sirius FM, the AM radio was all we had to listen to if we were travelling and it was the playoffs. Under those conditions the game was inevitably on (for any sport).

Then came each out, and me wishing I could be there with the sold-out crowd that included 100-plus people I knew at the game.

Yeah, that’s another thing – every time I looked at my socials, it was filled with in stadium images from people I know personally (and not online friends, but former colleagues, actual good friends, and other people I’m amicable with).

I digress . . . every out brought this feeling of immeasurable excitement as the comeback kids in Toronto Blue Jays uniforms reached extended their MLB leading come-from-behind wins to 51 games in 2025.

The Blue Jays are now the fourth team in MLB history to lose the first two games at home (in a best-of-seven series) and come back to advance. The others were all in the World Series: the 1985 Kansas City Royals, 1986 New York Mets and 1996 New York Yankees.

Even down those two games, and then by two runs late in Game 7, the feeling the Jays would find a way to beat the Seattle Mariners never left.

This team has that magic that we saw in 1992 and 1993. I wrote about it in these two columns – Je Ne Sais Quoi and Bounce Back. I even pulled out these old newspapers and memories from back then.

As I plastered all over socials, told my buddy Jas at our kids’ soccer practice, and texted my group chat with Kev, Rudder, Manny, and Tiger: The Toronto Blue Jays franchise is undefeated in World Series.

It’s going to take a lot to win their third against the defending champions and super deep Los Angeles Dodgers led by the greatest player ever in Shohei Ohtani, but against the odds, I like the Jays to find a way.

At the very least, they will put up a better fight than the Milwaukee Brewers did. And the Dodgers must come north for Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 (if it goes to 6 or 7). The SkyDome is crazy during October baseball runs, and I still have shivers watching that replay of the Springer Dinger with only the stadium sound.

All due respect to Milwaukee, but Toronto is a next level home crowd during deep playoff runs (in any sport).

Especially if the dome is closed, making the already loud cheers and chants even louder. I remember going to Exhibition Stadium during pennant races (back when there were only four divisions, the LCS and then the World Series).

Even at the Mistake by the Lake, the crowd noise in the outdoor stadium could be heard for kilometres and kilometres. Once the dome came into existence, it was even more of a home field advantage.

Full disclosure, soccer is my favourite sport, followed by basketball, then a mix of all the others.

That being stated, Blue Jays baseball in the fall, when it really matters, has always drawn me in as it has so many others. It has had this kind of unifying impact on the city, the province, and indeed the whole country.

The Jays are Canada’s team – yeah, I know the Raptors are kinda, sorta too, but not in the same way.

And therein lies a part of the magic. It’s like the collective souls of Canadians come together to cheer on the only Major League Baseball team outside of the United States and push them to victory over our southern neighbours in what they call their national pastime.

SIDE NOTE: I’m writing this column while waiting in queue to attempt to get tickets to at least one of the World Series games in Toronto. No luck. By the time I got online all the primary tickets were sold and the resale market priced me out. Oh well, we’ll need to set up a watch party or two with friends.

Back to the matter at hand. We’ve got the big, bad Dodgers on tap starting on October 25 and most people will be thinking that Los Angeles will be going back-to-back.

And they might, they just might.

But what if the Blue Jays are just on such a heater that nobody can beat them?

What if the magic of 92/93 is back? What if everybody’s Daddy Vladdy continues his playoff prowess? What if these Jays keep getting contributions from literally everybody on the team?

And what if the Toronto Blue Jays franchise just can’t be beaten in a World Series?