Just after midnight, the noisiest, wildest, standing room crowd of a spectacular baseball summer went silent.

There was nothing more to say, nothing left to cheer, nothing to celebrate about.

A spectacular World Series so close to a downtown parade — our parade — went seven games and needed two extra innings to crown a champion and now another piece of almost was can be added to Toronto’s poignant but sad sporting history.

This one hurt. Hurt a lot. This one will take time to get over. The Blue Jays seemed just steps away from being World Series champions and then in their own home, with their own crowd standing from first pitch to last, they were beaten 5-4 on home runs in the eighth, ninth and 11th innings, with the Los Angeles Dodgers becoming the first back-to-back World Series cham

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