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NEW YORK — A storm blew in over NYC about two hours before the scheduled start of Tuesday’s game at Citi Field between the Blue Jays and the hometown Mets.

But a storm of a different sort settled over the Jays the day before.

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With the Jays scheduled to play two inter-league games against the Mets Tuesday and Wednesday, Toronto farmhand Vladimir Guerrero Jr. earlier this week posted on Instagram a photo of himself at New York’s JFK International Airport.

That post created a frenzy of activity on social media, and in the mainstream media, with rumours galore that the Jays were calling up the 19-year-old to the big team. It was later discovered that it was an photo from December and that Guerrero had just re-posted it.

Still, the reaction was overwhelming, with fans and media alike weighing in on the excitement of the possibility of Guerrero being called up. New York columnist Joel Sherman even wrote a column about it in Tuesday’s Post.