Former manager Gibbons praises current Blue Jays as ‘a good baseball

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During his tenure as Toronto Blue Jays manager, John Gibbons reached consecutive American League Championship Series in 2015 and 2016.

While his former team is trying to complete what he started a decade ago, John Gibbons is in Houston for a wedding. He’s rented a house with a big TV with a satellite dish.

“It’s got about a thousand channels,” Gibbons said. “I can’t find any of the normal channels where the baseball games are on.”

So he followed the Jays’ big win in New York on his phone.

“Is the whole country on fire again?” he asked. Not quite yet, but soon.

The Jays have had a few successful men in charge, including the current one, but Gibbons remains a kind of ur-manager. He was the guy who best inhabited the manager role – a good ol’ boy with a sense of humour and, when