Cheers star George Wendt thinks the Blue Jays still have a chance at making the playoffs.

With the Blue Jays sitting five games out of a wild-card spot, Toronto might want to consider inviting George Wendt to a game or two ... or three.

The actor, who famously played Norm Peterson on Cheers for 11 seasons, was a good luck charm for the Blue Birds in October, 1993, when he attended a playoff game between the Jays and the Chicago White Sox.

Sitting alongside former Sun entertainment scribe Jim Slotek, Wendt watched as his beloved Sox lost to the eventual World Series-winning Jays.

“Being from Chicago, you’d think I’d be a Cubs fan and I try not to hate the Cubs, really. But I’m a White Sox fan because I’m a south-sider,” he told the Toronto Sun from Los Angeles.

Wendt will be in nearby Waterloo when the baseball playoffs starts in October when he’ll star as Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman at the St. Jacobs Country Playhouse.

The Jays are still sniffing around the edges of the last wild-card spot.

He asked how many games out Toronto is.

“Five?” he repeated. “It’s a possibility then.”

Wendt laughed when we suggested the Jays should invite him to attend this weekend’s homestand.

“This year, I kind of like the Astros,” he confessed. “The Nationals are pretty strong. But good Lord, the Dodgers are tearing it up, too.”

Wendt has preferred stage to TV in recent years, but with a recent spate of reboots and spinoffs, one can’t help but wonder where Cheers character Norm would be 25 years after the finale aired.

“Oh, right now he’s probably managing a sober-living house with a bunch of tragically sexy young addicts in Boston,” he laughed.

George Wendt appears in Death of a Salesman at St. Jacobs Country Playhouse in Waterloo from Oct. 18-Nov. 4.

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