The Blue Jays' magical run to the ALCS has been great for the aura of the Blue Jays' brain trust so far. But will it endure? Has the relationship between Jays fans and John Schneider, Mark Shapiro, and Ross Atkins turned a corner? Is the answer different depending on who we're asking the question about? In this week's Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, we explore all of these questions.

PLUS!: An update on how each team from our recent Unlikely Playoff Heroes draft is doing!

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The Blue Jays have vanquished the New York Yankees—by way of an insanely stressful bullpen game, no less—and are on to the ALCS to meet either the Tigers or the Mariners for the right to represent the American League in the World Series! It's a sublime and surreal moment, but are the vibes better today than after that glorious weekend after they blasted the Yankees in games One and Two to take an instant stranglehold on the series?

This week we discuss all of that, plus we ask whether we've learned anything about this Blue Jays team over the course of these last four games, whether there's an ALCS opponent we'd prefer and why it's the Tigers, and more!

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Daulton Varsho had one of the greatest playoff games in baseball history on Sunday, and somehow it’s, like, the third or fourth thing we need to talk about after a truly unbelievable weekend of Toronto Blue Jays playoff baseball.

Vlad setting the tone early in Game One, and Alejandro Kirk having a second straight Game of His Life. Vladdy blasting a Game Two grand slam on the sweetest swing in the history of the world. Trey f@&*%$@ Yesavage!

The Jays’ work isn’t done yet, but they’ve put themselves in the best possible position, with Shane Bieber set to take the ball in Game Three in the Bronx on Tuesday night, in the most utterly spectacular way possible. OH MY GOD! WHAT A WEEKEND!

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For this week's bonus show, which we're making freely available for everyone to hear, we each draft a five-man team of non-star/non-rotation members of the 2025 Blue Jays we think have the best chances to become unlikely playoff heroes.

Who do you think picked the better team? Let us know!

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The Jays know who their opponents in the ALDS will be and, of course, it's the New York Yankees. How are we feeling? How are the vibes? How do the two teams match up? And how should the Jays deploy their starting pitchers?

Not the way we expected, it turns out, with Kevin Gausman named the Game 1 starter over Shane Bieber just moments after we finished recording. But nevertheless, we talk about all of it, and all the possibilities that lie ahead. Playoffs, baby!

Plus we announce that our playoff coverage will include off-day episodes, regular bonus episodes, and post-game instant reaction mini-episodes after each game!

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In this week's Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, we size up the Blue Jays' potential ALDS opponents—the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox—and debate which one we'd prefer to see come through the Wild Card round for a visit to Rogers Centre starting on Saturday.

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It wasn't easy, it wasn't without drama, and it wasn't without a whole bunch of things going unexpectedly right—and wrong—over the course of the entire season, but your 2025 Toronto Blue Jays are winners of 94 games, the AL East crown, and the right to wait for the Yankees and Red Sox to duke it out in deciding who will be their ALDS opponent.

What a world! What a ride! What a team! And, before the story of these Jays gets rewritten by whatever happens next, we wanted to take a few moments to appreciate what an accomplishment it's been to even get this far.

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Alek Manoah was designated for assignment late last week and was subsequently selected off of waivers by Atlanta, ending a once incredibly promising Blue Jays career. And in this Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, we reminisce about how it all went, and where it all went wrong.

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The Blue Jays have scored one run or fewer in six of their last seven games, and while there's never a good time time to reach such an ungodly level of ineptitude, this exact moment is certainly in the conversation as very possibly the worst. It's ugly out there.

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THIS IS A PREVIEW OF OUR LATEST PATREON-EXCLUSIVE BONUS EPISODE. Trey Yesavage had one of the most electrifying debuts for a Blue Jays pitcher in recent memory. How do we know? Because in this Patreon-exclusive bonus episode we reminisced about other top prospect call-ups over the years—like Nate Pearson, Alek Manoah, and Marcus Stroman—and discussed how Yesavage stacked up.

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