Ah, the halcyon days of 1993. What a year it was! Bill Nye the Science Guy started airing in syndication, Jerry Seinfeld was 39 and going out with a teenage girl , and Craisins were finally, finally brought to market. But for Toronto baseball fans, 1993 is of particular import: It was the last time the Blue Jays made it to the World Series, and perhaps the last time any of us experienced true, arrant joy.

To be a Toronto sports fan is to be a beleaguered and oft-harmed member of a steadily crumbling society. When the Raptors won an NBA championship in 2019, they ended a quarter century of losses by all Canadian major sports teams. The Maple Leafs are not so much a hockey team as a brutal but inevitable punch line, having not won a championship since before the October Crisis . We

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