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In 1992, after the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Atlanta Braves to win the World Series for the first time, I wrote a column that began: “It’s a black day for Canada.”

I was city columnist for this newspaper at the time, not a sports columnist, and after two decades suffering with the Expos, I didn’t take well to the upstart Blue Jays winning the prize that had eluded Nos Amours for so long. At the very least, they should have had to suffer through a Blue Monday first.

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When they repeated the feat against the Phillies in 1993 (mostly because Mitch Williams was a pyromaniac out of the bullpen) it was gag-me time. Felipe Alou’s young, exciting Expos team had fallen just short again, while the dull but loaded Blue Jays got another parade.

Then when the Expos had their own World Series express derailed by the baseball strike in 1994, that was pretty much it. The baseball gods did not favour the Expos and the Blue Jays, in my view, didn’t deserve what they got.