For a couple of glorious years in 2015 and 2016, the Blue Jays made the postseason and brought a great deal of excitement to Canadian baseball fans in the month of October. After a more than two decade long drought, the Rogers Centre was bumping in a way we hadn’t seen in years, and TV ratings were through the roof. Baseball fever was back in Canada, which even took from some of the excitement of a fresh NBA and NHL season.
That’s not the case this year in Toronto, as the Blue Jays finished with a record of 73-89, good for fourth in the AL East and just (!