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TORONTO — R.A. Dickey would have loved to have faced the Blue Jays this week.

Maybe.

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“I would have considered it a fun experience to get to do it,” Dickey, now with the Atlanta Braves, said on Monday at Rogers Centre.

“But it’s okay, too,” that he isn’t scheduled to pitch against Toronto in the teams’ pair of two-game series this week.

“There is always a conflict of feeling there when you are facing guys you have played with and have become really good friends with over the years. Either way, I would have been okay, but it would have been nice to pitch, especially here.”

That’s about the lone regret Dickey has when the subject is the Jays, though there was no World Series ring during his four seasons with the club.

Despite compiling a 49-52 record with Toronto and being left off the playoff roster last fall, Dickey peered back at his Jays tenure only with fondness.

In November, the 42-year-old Dickey signed a one-year contract with the Braves, his future in Toronto sealed weeks earlier.