Another stellar instalment of Ye Olde Mailbag . Well done, folks.

Now back home for a big, long stretch of Raptors games, so we’ll see how things go here.

Enjoy.

Hi, Doug. It’s a challenge to hang on to affection for local teams in an era of internet sports gambling. The endless display and recitation of odds, the growing scandals and the gaslighting of what massive gambling is doing to almost every aspect of sport — all this makes the affection and attachment to our ‘25 Blue Jays team all the more noteworthy.

What do you make of it? Something unusual happened with our team this season. You have often written about “glue guys” and “team culture.” What might have happened under the hood for our baseball team to achieve such cohesion and success? Have you ever seen anything like it

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