Toronto Blue Jays' Bo Bichette swings for a three-run home run off of Los Angeles Dodgers' pitcher Shohei Ohtani during the third inning in Game 7 of the World Series on Saturday in Toronto.

On the day after Game 2 of the American League championship series, Mark Shapiro took a walk around his neighbourhood.

The president and chief executive officer of the Toronto Blue Jays was so deeply engrossed in the postseason to that point that he hadn’t really noticed that his neighbours, much like the rest of the country, had been consumed by his team. Its presence was everywhere.

“It was one moment that heightened my awareness,” Shapiro said on Thursday as the club put a wrap on its 2025 season.

That awareness crested on Sunday, the day after the Blue Jays lost in Game 7 of the World Series.

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