Your honour, my love for the Blue Jays supersedes my civic duty.

That’s the excuse one Ottawa man came up with when attempting to get out of jury duty – and it worked.

According to the Ottawa Sun, the man had been selected as a juror in a murder trial when he sent a note to Justice Patrick Smith asking to be excused from the proceedings because he had tickets to the Oct. 8 playoff game in Toronto.

“I’ve waited 20 years for a moment like this,” he wrote.

The judge read the man’s note in court and, after discussing it with lawyers involved in the case, excused the man from the trial.

“Hope you enjoy the game,” Justice Smith said.

The man was replaced by an alternate juror.