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TORONTO — There’s a monstrous candle in John Schneider’s office. It arrived in June, the product of a Costco run and the manager’s superstition, filling the room with an odour somewhere between bed sheets and boreal forest. The five, slow-burning wicks lasted many months, as the Blue Jays authored an odds-defying rise to the American League pennant.
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When the wax finally ran out, the manager acquired replacements, stuffing them in the same large basin to keep the fire burning. Hours before the Blue Jays became American League champions, the flame flickered.
But these Blue Jays won’t let it die. They can’t. They didn’t on Monday, when with a 4-3 victory in Game 7 over the Seattle Mariners, the Blue Jays kept this special season burning. That’s what connects every Blue Jays player, coach, fan and executive.
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