ST. PETERSBURG - The 2015 baseball season ended, as it always does, with one team bathed in champagne and 29 others bathed in tears.
For the Toronto Blue Jays, it mattered little in those minutes and hours that followed their Game 6 loss to Kansas City in the American League Championship Series that, after 22 empty Octobers, they had finally wakened the sleeping giant of their fan base by making the playoffs. Losing is still losing.
But, as the Jays prepared to begin their quest anew these past two months, those 16 crazy days of October baseball couldn’t be ignored.