George Springer gives the Jays the lead
— CJ Fogler (@cjzero.bsky.social) October 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Vladimir Guerrero was MVP of the ALCS. Here is a great photo of Vladdy with his father, who played for the Expos when Vladdy was born in Montreal:
And here are the congrats from Dad:
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As for what's next, at The Globe and Mail, Cathal Kelly says:Ok, here's the bet: If the Jays win the World Series Trump drops all Canadian Tariffs, if the Dodgers win we deliver Danielle Smith & Pierre Poilievre to the White House.
— David Brace (@davidbrace2.bsky.social) October 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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...The Dodgers aren’t a mountain to climb. They’re a cliff that peels away backward once you start trying to pull yourself up it.On a more lyrical note, here's a good column from the Dodgers beat writer for LWOSports:
They’ve played 10 playoff games and lost only one. In their most recent series, against Milwaukee, they gave up four runs total. In the game that closed the sweep, Ohtani had what was probably the greatest individual performance ever in a baseball game. Ten strikeouts as a pitcher, three home runs as a hitter.
The Blue Jays won’t be underdogs in this World Series. They’ll be whatever you’d find under an underdog. The underrug or the undercushion or the underflooring.
...Should the Jays beat the Dodgers? Absolutely not. Every one of L.A.’s starting pitchers is better than all of their Jays’ counterparts. L.A.’s line-up features a front three who’ve all won MVP awards. They have Dodger Stadium, which is as close as baseball gets to a gladiator arena.
But can the Blue Jays beat L.A.? Of course. Toronto has proven that they are more than the sum of their parts, though the parts are increasingly formidable. They lost one of their best players, Bo Bichette, to injury and got better. Guerrero wasn’t even a factor in Game 7 and it didn’t matter. This team wins when events suggest it should not.
When he came to the Jays, Springer had the reputation as a click-and-play Mr. October. He’d been a World Series MVP in 2017.
But the Jays couldn’t get anywhere in October, and Springer, 36, started to slow down. This year, he was asked to play less in the field, and had a resurgence at the plate as a result.
Still, you would have said that his contract – at one point the largest in team history – was a minor bust. Until Monday. If he never plays again, his place in Toronto sports lore is assured.
A team like that? As long as there are games to play, they have a chance.
Smayan Srikanth / Sports Square
Destiny vs. Dynasty: The Baseball Gods’ Matchup
The Dodgers chase immortality. The Blue Jays chase belief. And the baseball gods decide who’s next. Edition #302
The baseball gods don’t flip coins. They write scripts.
And somehow, they’ve written this.
One side’s been chasing greatness all decade.
The other’s been running on pure chaos and heart.
One team built for October. The other born for it.
The 2025 World Series isn’t just a matchup — it’s a clash of baseball ideologies.
Dynasty versus destiny.
On one side, you’ve got the Los Angeles Dodgers — the blueprint, the machine, the franchise that wakes up in October already two wins ahead.
They’ve got Shohei Ohtani (the NLCS MVP), Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Blake Snell, and a whole lot more. That’s three guaranteed Hall of Famers right there — and we haven’t even mentioned Clayton Kershaw.
They don’t just want a title. They’re building a dynasty. This is just one of many they want to win. A World Series victory would mark the beginning of their dominance over this era...
Then there are the Toronto Blue Jays, returning to the Fall Classic for the first time in 32 years.
They have Vlad Jr. They have Kevin Gausman. They have Jeff Hoffman. They have stars — and they have a nation behind them.
Who would’ve thought the Blue Jays, in a division with the Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, and Rays, would be the ones still standing in October?... Experience will matter, but Toronto’s been clutch all postseason — and that could make all the difference.
One team is chasing immortality. The other’s chasing a miracle.
And baseball’s beautiful because, right now, you can’t tell which story the gods love more....
3 comments:
In Jays we trust.
The last time I said, "Go Jays!" they lost 2 straight. No comment from me this time.
yes I sometimes just don't watch an inning because they seem to get behind when I do!
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