In his recap/warning to Blue Jays fans following their quasi-singularly traumatic World Series Game 7 loss, Defector’s Barry Petchesky, referencing the Yankees against the Diamondbacks in 2001, put it thusly:

So let’s have a little heart-to-heart chat, you, the grieving and traumatized Jays fan, me, a fan who was on the wrong side of what was probably the best and most dramatic World Series until this one. Maybe I can help:

You’re screwed. You will never get over this. You will never fully recover. The sharp pain may age to a dull ache, but it will never go away. You will go hours, then days, then weeks without thinking about how close you came—and then something will remind you, and it will hurt all over again. Who you were last week is not who you will be for the rest of your life. You

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