TORONTO -- There’s a question Blue Jays players and coaches get over and over again.

It comes each Spring Training in the glow of a new season. It comes on Opening Day, over and over again. It comes each July 1, all dressed in red. It comes from reporters in road cities, over and over again. It’s a question the other 29 teams don’t get.

“How does it feel that you’re not just representing a city … you’re representing an entire country?”

Over the years, some sharp players have learned to lean into it, almost like a savvy politician knowing they’ve got a line that will land perfectly with their base of supporters. The Blue Jays are baseball’s other team. Sure, it’s a pain for the other 29 clubs to remember their passports for the Toronto trip, but the Blue Jays can’t leave home without t

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