ORLANDO, Fla — There will be a day when the pain from Game 7 of the World Series will subside, Blue Jays manager John Schneider just doesn’t know when it will arrive.

All he knows is that it hasn’t happened yet. Almost six weeks removed from that fateful night at the Rogers Centre , it’s still too soon.

Everywhere Schneider goes here at baseball’s Winter Meetings he’s congratulated on the Jays stellar season, but in the process also reminded of the excruciating near-miss to the defending World Series champion Dodgers in an epic series that rejuvenated the Toronto franchise.

“It took a while,” Schneider said on Tuesday in his first full media availability since the painful hours after that extra-innings loss to the Dodgers that will be remembered for as long as there’s Blue Jays baseba

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