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How about those Blue Jays?

Yonge Street Staff | Thursday, October 01, 2015

So how about those Jays? Toronto’s baseball team has topped the American League East for the first time in 22 years, bringing the eyes of North America’s sportswriters back to the city. Not only are the once-struggling Jays guaranteed a playoff spot, but observers are already mooting the possibility that the World Series could return to the city for the first time since parents were children, and the SkyDome was still called the SkyDome. As ESPN put it, the Blue Jays are “back to thinking big.” The New York Times notes that the longest playoff drought in Major League Baseball has come to an end. And the Detroit Free Press had a simple lament as it watched David Price - its former star pitcher, now propelling the Jays to victory - celebrate in the clubhouse: “Oh, what might have been."

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