A little more than a month ago, shortly after George Springer’s three-run dinger launched the Blue Jays into an improbable World Series, nobody was thinking about the Raptors.

But Raptors coach Darko Rajakovic was bold enough to think about what it would be like to be the Blue Jays.

“It’s awesome for us to be in the city and to see that energy,” Rajakovic said in the midst of that fairy-tale October. “(That) type of energy is going to be the same for us once we start rolling in the playoffs.”

At the time, of course, it seemed harmlessly quaint to view the Raptors as playoff locks. Oddsmakers had them as something less than that. When Rajakovic spoke those words, his team, coming off a 30-win season, had yet to play a game.

But a little more than a month later, the red-hot Rap

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