Montrealers are split down the middle when it comes to the Toronto Blue Jays.

McLean’s Pub on Peel St. was jam-packed Monday night with folks watching the Canadiens-Sabres game and Game 7 of the Seattle Mariners-Blue Jays American League Championship series. The place went absolutely nuts when George Springer hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh inning to make it 4-3 for the Jays, which ended up being the final score. That home run earned Canada’s only Major League Baseball team a berth in the World Series for the first time in more than 30 years. The World Series starts Friday night in Toronto.

Nezhat ‘Nezz’ Kaddour was wearing a Montreal Canadiens cap and a Toronto Blue Jays jersey while slinging drinks behind the bar at McLean’s that night and Kaddour is a hardcore Jays

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