It’s cliché to say that young baseball players grow up dreaming of the World Series, but those scenarios usually focus on the positives. Hitting the walk-off winner and lifting the big trophy is pretty cool; feeling the pressure of millions of eyes trained squarely on you, however, can be a little less fun.

And that pressure is especially prominent ahead of the 2025 World Series. For the Toronto Blue Jays, there’s both the weight of a three-decade title drought and that of representing an entire country that’s been feeling the squeeze from its very powerful neighbor.

In the opposite dugout, the Los Angeles Dodgers are trying to earn a place in history with back-to-back titles. There’s also some negative attention being paid to the club, as they’re filling the “bad guy” role that the Ne

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