Saturday night's Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the World Series is, from the standpoint of the defeated, of course painful. It's one loss when one win would've given you the belt and the title. That's sports agony. In this instance, though, it's worse than that because in order to arrive at the season-ending loss, the Blue Jays had to defy all manner of odds and surrender to all kinds of absurd circumstances. This merits chronicling even if doing so smacks of a certain inhumanity.

The Jays, you see, were at one point two outs from winning the third World Series in franchise history, two outs from ending their 32-year title drought. Instead, closer Jeff Hoffman with one out in the top of the ninth threw a slider that was a bit too loopy, and Mi

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