Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Kevin Gausman celebrates while playing the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series in Toronto this past Saturday.

They are an eyelash from winning the World Series, but that went unspoken at Rogers Centre on Thursday by John Schneider, the Blue Jays’ manager. No need to provoke the baseball gods.

To hear him, it’s just the same old, same old. There is little to be excited about, really. Toronto clubs regularly cart major trophies back to this sports-mad metropolis.

Just a half-dozen years ago the Raptors won their first NBA title. The Blue Jays last lifted the Tiffany & Co.-manufactured Commissioner’s Trophy in 1993. The Maple Leafs – ah, never mind. Methuselah was their last winning goalie.

Toronto needs a victory on Friday or Saturday to clinch t

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