Official Blue Jays 2025 Thread: Bandwagon Officially Boarding

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@MikelArteta
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I just can’t get over that loss brehs. I try to numb the pain but I simply can’t, impossible.Man I’m still crying right now. I’m in shock. I still can’t process what’s just happened. I got tears in my eyes, because I still can’t accept the reality. Im not even coping and trying to find silver linings, I’m just down on my knees in tears brother…. Not even the strongest proof alcohol would help me to cope, drink and drown my pain away

Man that Bo homer should've been immortalized….I just loved the way he casually and nonchalantly dropped the bat with arrogance after his swing. Swagged out moment when he hit that 3- run homer deep into center deck, 3-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning!!!!
They Intentionally walked Vladdy and Bo slammed one to deep centre to put us up 3 at the time. I was so happy because I was waiting a long time for it

That was supposed to be our game, this should have been our moment, our time, our championship. We were supposed to be the ones celebrating and hollering

I can't believe we lost.

Not to mention the Ernie Clement slide into home in the 6th. Then in the 9th, we’re only 2 outs away from the chip and the homer to Rojas , the #9 hitter in the bottom of the Dodgers order, the base running error in the 9th. You get the sense the Jays couldn't overcome their own errors or someone else's miracle story. Just gotta bury this one as it's too painful to revisit.

I will never forget it and recover from it. I wish I was a casual Toronto sports fan at the most
To be honest, following religiously and intensely the Raps, jays, and leafs only brought me so much heartache, pain and frustration in my life except for one magical exception, a one season brief reprieve from the pain in 2019 when my beloved raps finally reached the promised land and won their first ever nba championship. Imagine I was also a buffalo bills fan lol.


In nfl terms, this is as bad, cruel and heartbreaking as the Seahawks fumbling away the title to the patriots when they didn’t give the ball to Marshawn lynch at the 1-yard line in the Super Bowl. Or the 2021 AFC divisional game between the chiefs and the bills but it was not the superbowl.

In soccer/football: 2004-05 AC Milan loss in the champions league against Liverpool

In nba terms: :2013 spurs losing game 6 and 7 to the Miami heat in the 2013 nba finals

In hockey terms: 2004 Cinderella Calgary flames losing game 6 and 7 to the Tampa bay lightning in the 2004 Stanley cup finals.

I don’t follow rugby, cricket, etc at all so I can’t make similar and proper comparisons between their worst final moments and the jays loss in this WS.

Individual sports like tennis, formula 1, boxing, ufc, golf, etc? What was their equivalents to the 2025 World Series loss ?

It’s still hard to forget the pain because Jays had so many chances to win this and that's why it hurts so much.

Dodgers just had six consecutive miracles go their way in a row.

Muncy homers after doing nothing all series and gives them life.

Rojas is the 2nd last batter of the night and somehow homers - he's the f***ing 9TH BATTER in rotation. If it was going to be someone, at least Ohtani would have made sense. This is just unfathomable and Hoffman will remembered forever for throwing a horrendous meatball.

Smith gets his toenail back onto the bag as IKF is coming in with about 3/10 of a second from the game being over.

Smith comes up with the most clutch home run he will ever hit in his life.

And then of course, the f***ing broken bat when the tying run was 90 feet away.

 

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« And then there’s a hundred moments on Saturday night to obsess over forever.
Far smaller sporting letdowns have made us hysterical, so this is not to suggest that Toronto will handle it well. I expect the city to handle things as it always does – poorly. But if you want to be a serious city, you need serious sporting disasters.
New York blew an ALCS they were leading 3-0. Boston lost a World Series because their first baseman didn’t feel like bending all the way over. Montreal has Rick Monday. Vancouver had a Stanley Cup final in the bag, then they cut the bottom of the bag open, and then they tried to burn the town down. That’s losing.
Earlier: The Blue Jays can’t just think the Dodgers into submission, they have to play the game
What does Toronto have? 4-1 with 10 minutes left in the third? Pathetic, really. It was a quarterfinal.
What the Jays have just done is titanic by comparison. It is the city’s sporting Everest, even if it ended up falling off the edge.
Up three games to two on the best team in the world, coming home, your two most experienced starters ready to go, your best line-up on the field, the whole town going wild for the first time in 30-plus years, up 3-0 and then 4-2 in the final games, and they couldn’t close it out. Epic.
Until Saturday night, the last time this city played in and lost a major championship was 1960. The population of Toronto at the time was around 700,000. This place was a burg and the Leafs were winning so regularly, losing a Stanley Cup would barely have registered. Everything since then has been small beer.
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Blue Jays fans cheer at Nathan Philips Square in Toronto on Saturday.DUANE COLE/THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Saturday’s nuclear meltdown at Rogers Island? That is a loss you can be proud of.
It’s something a young baseball fan can hold on to until she’s old. If the Jays never win again, the bitter embers of the 2025 World Series will keep her warm her whole life.
If you feel bad about it, don’t. This is the whole point of caring about a bunch of strangers who get paid a thousand times what you do to run around in stretchy pants.
In return for your money and attention, they give you big feelings. Most years they don’t even give you that. When the feelings are finally delivered, nobody guarantees they will be good.
If you find yourself stuck in bed for an extra hour this morning, running over the batting order in your mind, thinking that you could manage this team better than the so-called professionals hired to do the job, and finally decide to get up so that you can go somewhere where there are other people so that you can yell about it, you got exactly what you paid for.
Cathal Kelly: Baseball is having its first truly international World Series

Blue Jays fans at the University of Toronto, the Rogers Centre and bars in Calgary and Vancouver face the team's loss to the Dodgers.
THE GLOBE AND MAIL
In time, you will remember how much fun this past month was. Soon after that, you’ll start to appreciate it. These moments are perishingly few anywhere, because they only happen when your team doesn’t win very often.
Had L.A. lost this World Series, no one in L.A. would really care. A few die-hards maybe, but not a critical mass of the town. Their team won last year. They think they’ll win next year.
It won’t matter in New York that they didn’t make it past the second hurdle. If not the Yankees, then it’ll be the Rangers, or the Knicks, or the whoevers.
It mattered in Toronto because it had been so long since it had last happened, and there is zero indication that any other team is going to manage it any time soon. It may not turn out that this was a one-and-done, but it felt that way. That’s a civic windfall you can only reap if you’ve spent many years investing in hopeless cases.
I say this without irony: Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays on that loss. It was a masterpiece of the form.
It is a gift to live in a place where such a trivial thing meant so much to so many. For 29 remarkable days in October (and November) they made us feel like we were in something together. »

 

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@MikelArteta

Jays came out of nowhere this year, their performance this season was unexpected. The rest of the baseball world wasn’t prepared for us

Next year the element of surprise will be gone

They watched and followed our team, they had enough time to analyze and expose us. They know every detail, every strength and weakness on our roster.

They will make adjustments against us next year because they got the tape, the watch, and figured us out

 

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@MikelArteta

Jays came out of nowhere this year, their performance this season was unexpected. The rest of the baseball world wasn’t prepared for us

Next year the element of surprise will be gone

They watched and followed our team, they had the time analyze end expose us

They will make adjustments against us next year because they got the tape, the watch, and figured us out

yup springer won't be as good at 37, need to resign bichette and hope guerrero has amonster season

 

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@MikelArteta
@tremonthustler1
Our jays couldn’t win one chip for colour commentator/analyst buck Martinez (he’s fighting cancer) and don mattingly

Man I’m so sad this was really a storybook season for Toronto. They were like A team from a classic sports movie who had an impossible dream, nearly realized it but failed at the end

 

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I know that this was an amazing season and dudes made it to the extras in game 7 of the world series but can we go back to wanting Atkins and Shapiro fired. I feel like people got distracted and forgot the real objective here. We gotta keep the main thing the main thing.

 

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Well, I wanted the Jays to win it so much. But you begrudgingly gotta hand it to the Dodgers. They just pulled off the repeat. I think Dave Roberts is such a good manager. Guy always seems in control and makes the necessary adjustments. He Never panics under pressure. He’s both intelligent and experienced.He quickly learns from his mistakes and makes improvements


His roster change/switch/replacement at centre field in the bottom of the 9th saved their asses. Plus his pitching rotation for the last game, knowing his regular relief/bullpen pitchers sucked was brilliant. The devil is in the details, it’s the small things that count. Roberts is Underrated as a tactical and strategist manager just like Joe Torre, Felipe Alou, Bruce Bochy, Dusty Baker, Charlie Manuel and Cito Gaston were. He makes the right decisions at the right time and his gambles pay off


John Schneider sucks so much as a in-game manager. He’s predictable, he’s good when everything is going his way, he’s good with a set lineup but when his initial plunder don’t work, he struggles to make the necessary adjustments to win as the game goes on. He relies too much on statistics/analytics, he doesn’t have the feel of the game. A competent manager relies on both. And he often takes nonsense, bad decisions that defies logic and he can’t think on his own feet. Varsho sucked all series, couldn’t hit anything because he can’t hit low balls, yet he kept him in the 5th spot of the order until game 7 even then, he left him 7th in the batting order BEFORE the hottest hitter in the series, Ernie clement. That is bad management. Any other decent manager would have put Clement at the top of the order. But not John Schneider. The past managers in Toronto Blue Jays history, every one of them, Bobby Cox, Cito Gaston, John Gibbons, Tim Johnson, Buck Martinez, Carlos Tosca, Jim Fregosi( remember those two) and even Charlie Montoyo would have done this.

I still shudder at his decision of pulling starting pitcher Jose Berrios from the mound after a great performance in game 2 of the 2023 wildcard series against Minnesota. He was mowing down the twins hitters, he was in the groove and you still get him out of there in the 4th inning ?
He could have pitched the entire game. But because Schneider relied on analytics and bullpen management instead of heaving a feel for the game and trusting his starter

And why Lukes was in the starting/batting lineup over Davis Schneider

And why Davis Schneider was not used as a punch runner instead of IKF? He’s not a slower and a worse baserunner than him.


Eric Lauer should have pitched some innings last night too.

It was truly a Comedy of errors in game 7

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The missed opportunity in the 9th was truly unbelievable. Bases loaded. But you had the worst hitter to face in Varsho.
But to start this inning, you had Vladdy with a 3-0 count and had the green light. Why try to be the hero and go for the home run? A hit or a base on balls would have put him on base. Look at what happened after? He would have been the winning point on a hit by pitch! Vladdy should have worked the count more with Yamamoto, who wasn’t giving him anything. The Blue Jays were mostly relentless on pitchers and counts all season. That at-bat was out of their pattern. They rarely had such bad at-bats like this in the second half of the season after all star weekend.

 

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Lukes was balling in the seattle series.

 

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This World Series could have gone either way honestly. Both teams were evenly matched on the field. On paper the dodgers looked better, they had more stars, they were heavy favorites, they had experience and championship pedigree on their side as well because they already won 2 other WS titles in the 2020s, but on the field, during the actual games played, it was a very competitive series between two evenly matched teams but They were different as each team had its own strengths and weaknesses . It was a very even series in real time.

At the end it came down to the small things/details, mental mistakes and unexpected contributions from unsung players like Rojas and pages. Their guys rose to the occasion and made the winning plays when they needed it, while our guys failed to Seize the moment and take advantage of their opportunities.

It was a pure coin flip series though. I wouldn’t have been this sad, mad, angry and heartbroken if we lost in a 4-game sweep. At least I would have quickly gotten over it and would have accepted the fact that our jays just got completely outmatched and dominated, that the dodgers were clearly a better team with better talent and execution, and we weren’t close to them and close to winning the WS at all. But the fact that we were oh so close will always hurt me. It will always be too painful to remember it. Bittersweet memory.

Despite the loss in game 7, i will always love and remember the memorable and wonderful season and playoffs this team had. They played with purpose, they had heart, grit, team chemistry/execution/collective effort, great work ethic and team spirit. The 2025 blue jays will be on my mind, in my heart and in my memories forever. Just like the 2018-19 nba champion Raptors and 2019-20 Raptors.( that bubble second round series loss to the Celtics still hurts. If siakam just played at a mediocre level, we win this hard fought and competitive series)

 

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Inability to get a hit with guys on base killed them the past two games.

Also, I know it's reactionary but Varsho sucks. The guy just swings at everything. He could have won it with a sac fly but instead grounds out weakly with the bases loaded and only 1 out.

Dodgers' long ball ability won them the game

 

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SIMMONS: Everything was perfect in this classic World Series - everything but the winner

We've just witnessed a classic World Series - one of the best ever - and one of the greatest Game 7s of all time.

torontosun.com

SIMMONS: This Blue Jays World Series loss will hurt forever

Home runs, in the end, hit against three of the Blue Jays best at the worst possible time.

torontosun.com

 

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@MikelArteta

ARE U OK HABIB?

 

[richtree]

Yeah this one stings ..