This is an opinion column about baseball and politics, which are two very different things.

For starters, baseball has one moral dimension. Politics, too often, has no morality at all.

So what’s the connection, you ask? It’s this: the Blue Jays — based in Toronto, of all places — were sent by a sympathetic God to heal us. To act as a balm for our psychic wounds. Specifically, those caused by Donald Trump.

When the Mango Mussolini got started with the 51st state garbage, Canadians thought it was a (bad) joke. After a while, literally nobody was laughing anymor e. Trump’s ravings and rantings left us feeling angry, shocked — and, if the election results meant anything — looking for someone, anyone, to make the Cheeto Benito go away.

Canadians know that we lack the diplomatic or militar

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