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For the legion of Toronto Blue Jays fans – and the bandwagon is buckling – Gregg Zaun offers news.

Good or bad? Well, that depends on your perspective.

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But here goes: Your favourite team’s makeup is basically unchanged.

Meaning lots of home runs.

Meaning lots of questions about pitching.

Whichever side of that equation obsesses you most – mountains of runs for, mountains of runs against – there is no shortage of interest in the Jays’ fate. Enthusiasm could not be more intense – even now, on the prairies, in January.

“A lot of people still have Blue Jays fever – chomping at the bit for spring training to get here,” says Zaun. “I don’t think it can get here soon enough. It’s nice to see people still into it and wanting to talk about baseball.”

Zaun, of course, is happy to oblige.

Former Major League catcher, current Sportsnet baseball analyst, the 44-year-old is barnstorming Alberta.

Coaching clinic at the University of Calgary. Poker night at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino. Celebrity Dinner for the Brooks Bombers. Fundraiser for the Badlands Badgers in Oyen.