Baseball teams love to make motivational shirts for themselves — splashed with some pithy reference to a clubhouse joke or public quip. The Toronto Blue Jays, for instance, wore one last year that said “Nobody gives a s*#@” (that last word rhymes with “hit”).
It was president Mark Shapiro’s idea. An acknowledgement that in the crowded American League East in the competitive world of baseball, the Blue Jays’ disadvantageous circumstances were, if anything, a source of delight and not sympathy to their opponents.
“So let’s just play,” as manager Charlie Montoyo said recently.