Hold onto your double-double, hockey towels, and oversized leaf-flags because the Toronto Blue Jays are positively serving excellence and major Canadian pride as they soar into the 2025 World Series (yes, fluff your pillows: this is a moment) to face off with the powerhouse Los Angeles Dodgers. This is historic. This is dramatic. This is so Valley Girl News appropriate.
Picture it: Game 7 of the American League Championship Series, the Jays down 3-1 in the seventh inning, hopes shimmering like a shimmer gloss in the sunlight… and then they unleash the baton of clutch. Enter George Springer — gimpy knee, pressure high, but that bat? Hoo-boy, unforgiving. He launches a three-run homer off Eduard Bazardo into the left-field seats, the stadium erupts, Maple Leaf Nation goes wild, and the Blue Jays send the Mariners packing while booking their tickets to the Fall Classic.
Why this matters?
– First World Series berth since 1993 for the Jays. Gasp.
– It’s not just a homer—it’s the kind of homer: go-ahead, trailing by multiple runs, in the seventh inning of Game 7. Historical.
– It’s Canada’s team. From coast to coast to coast, walking out of the stadium into victory chants and lil’ snowflakes of blue feathers. Up here, we do big drama with polite applause and giant smiles.
But wait—there’s more (because of course there is). Our story needs the supporting cast and OMG: the Jays delivered.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.? MVP stuff. He slammed his way through the ALCS batting .385 and sprayed three homers with three doubles and four walks. Each time he went deep, the Jays went home with the W. No stalling, just style.
Kevin Gausman, Chris Bassitt, and Jeff Hoffman? Our bullpen shepherds. They shut the door when the lights burned brightest—shut down hits, shut down momentum, shut down “why-did-we-even hope”.
And let’s give a shout-out to the “bottom of the order” dream-team: the overlooked, the under-the-radar, the ones who planted the sneaky seeds of rally before Springer finished the job. The Jays were in it until they ended it.
So here we are. The Toronto Blue Jays? World Series bound. Can we even? The confetti haven’t all fallen yet, but the glamour is set. We’re talking stadium roars, Maple Leaf fervour, playoff beards, and bats like lightsabers. They’ll now dance with the Dodgers—yes, that Dodgers squad—and we’ll be watching every glimmer.
And for every girl shouting “OMG Blue Jays!” from her living room while scrolling Instagram—pop the champagne (OK just sparkling cider, we keep it classy) and get ready: the Jays are giving us stories to tell. When Springer rounded first base after that homer? It was less “run-around” and more “leap-dance of destiny”.
Okay, so like, the Toronto Blue Jays are so the lovable underdogs right now. According to FanGraphs (aka, the spreadsheet overlords of baseball), the Jays have like a 9.5% chance of winning the whole thing. Ugh, rude! Meanwhile, the Dodgers, of course, are sitting pretty as the favorites , meaning basically everyone expects them to win unless the Jays pull off something iconic. So yeah, the numbers say Toronto’s got maybe a 10-20% shot at glory… but honestly? Crazier things have happened, and this team’s got that “main character energy” when it matters most.
So yes: if you were simmering in couch-potato mode, sipping iced latte and yelling at the TV—Congrats. You’re part of this. You’re the “GO Jays” in the backseat. You’re the unfurling banner. You’re the dramatic inning where the screen freeze-frames your jaw dropping.
Grab your foam finger, wrap yourself in the red-blue leaf flag, and get ready to chant “Touch ’em all”—because the Blue Jays did just that. And as you watch them take the field vs. the Dodgers, just whisper: “Yaaas Jays, bring it home, baby.”
XOXO,
Valley Girl News
Where math says no, but Springer says watch me.
