On Monday night, after 32 years, the wait finally ended. And the party got started. Immediately.

Flooding out of Rogers Centre just before midnight, a sea of baseball fans took over Front Street in downtown Toronto to dance, chant and high five anyone in sight after the Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners to advance to the World Series for the first time since 1993.

“We’re back, baby!” said Leo Bursui, who watched the game at a bar downtown.

He was wearing his parents' old sweatshirt from their university days, he said, commemorating the Blue Jays' 1992 World Series title. He said he came downtown Monday to make his own Blue Jays memories.

Leo Bursui says he was wearing the sweatshirt his parents had when they were going to school in Toronto in the early 1990s, the last time the Blue J

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