2025 Blue Jays
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barney_rebel
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We rule man
dappleganger
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World Series, baby!!!
Arn
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Baseball was the first "American" sport I ever got into, probably cos it was kind of like cricket which is a sport I’ve played since I was about 9 years old.
I remember watching a baseball game on TV when I was on a holiday in the USA in the early or mid 1990s when I was anbout 11 and instantly loving it.
Then over here a new TV station, channel 5 started up and one of their things was a weekly through the night coverage of two MLB games on a weekend night in the mid to late 90s. I watched every week. First World Series I really remember watching was 1997 Florida Marlins v Cleveland Indians.
I didn't really have a team as such then, just watched whatever game was on and loved all the nuances and stats of the game.
Then I went on a holiday to Toronto in 2002 with the specific aim of seeing my first live baseball game. I went to 4 games, Toronto v Cleveland twice, and Toronto v Boston Red Sox twice.Toronto lost all 4 games. But for whatever reason, I decided since they'd been my first home team, they were my team now. (I actually just looked up the details of those games and they were swept in both series, even the game Halladay pitched).
On a side note: This trip was also the same week of THAT game 6 between the Leafs and Carolina which cemented me as a Leafs fan, again, despite a loss! Maybe I should have taken all these losses as a sign
. But that trip was when I really connected with Toronto and Canada and is why now I’m still sitting on message boards talking about these things from across an ocean.
It's been a long 23 years since to get to this point, and I genuinely thought it would never happen. Jays in a World Series. I was even less optimistic after some of the “better” prior teams didn’t make it this far.
Also I dug back into some old photos of that trip. They look like a different era.
I remember watching a baseball game on TV when I was on a holiday in the USA in the early or mid 1990s when I was anbout 11 and instantly loving it.
Then over here a new TV station, channel 5 started up and one of their things was a weekly through the night coverage of two MLB games on a weekend night in the mid to late 90s. I watched every week. First World Series I really remember watching was 1997 Florida Marlins v Cleveland Indians.
I didn't really have a team as such then, just watched whatever game was on and loved all the nuances and stats of the game.
Then I went on a holiday to Toronto in 2002 with the specific aim of seeing my first live baseball game. I went to 4 games, Toronto v Cleveland twice, and Toronto v Boston Red Sox twice.Toronto lost all 4 games. But for whatever reason, I decided since they'd been my first home team, they were my team now. (I actually just looked up the details of those games and they were swept in both series, even the game Halladay pitched).
On a side note: This trip was also the same week of THAT game 6 between the Leafs and Carolina which cemented me as a Leafs fan, again, despite a loss! Maybe I should have taken all these losses as a sign
. But that trip was when I really connected with Toronto and Canada and is why now I’m still sitting on message boards talking about these things from across an ocean. It's been a long 23 years since to get to this point, and I genuinely thought it would never happen. Jays in a World Series. I was even less optimistic after some of the “better” prior teams didn’t make it this far.
Also I dug back into some old photos of that trip. They look like a different era.