VANCOUVER - Not all Canadians love the Toronto Blue Jays.

A select group of baseball fans across the country have cheered while watching the Blue Jays stumble against through the first two games of the American League Championship Series against the Seattle Mariners.

“I don’t like having the Jays shoved down my throat 24-7,” said Carey O’Reilly, a Mariners fan who lives in Vancouver. “Whenever I’m changing the channel, it’s ‘Blue Jays in 30’ this, ‘Blue Jays in 30’ that. I could do without that.”

O’Reilly is one of many Mariners fans living in British Columbia.

For some, the allegiance is tied to childhood memories, while others root on the team to buck against the assumption that Toronto represents all of Canada.

Now, with their team up 2-0 on the Blue Jays in the best-of-seven ALCS,

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