Toronto Blue Jays fans in Halifax cheer run for playoffs
The Toronto Blue Jays won another game last night against Texas to reclaim top spot in the American League East, and it seems Jays fever is spreading across the country.
Two die-hard fans in Halifax, Kathryn Walsh and Grant Faulkner, are ecstatic to see their team doing so well, and welcome the enthusiastic bandwagon jumpers.
"It's always fun to have more people, and it doesn't matter how you got into it," said Walsh.
Faulkner, 49 and originally from Oakville, Ont., has been watching the Jays since he was a kid. He was living in Toronto when they won back-to-back World Series in 1992 and 1993.
"Everyone followed every game, every inning. It was something else; I mean the enthusiasm was incredible," Faulkner said.
He's also got a baseball that he snagged after a home run was hit by Craig Nettles against Tom Murphy (but not this Tom Murphy) during a 1978 Blue Jays game.
For Walsh, baseball started as something she always watched with her family growing up.
"I think I first became a [Blue Jays] fan and had an actual investment in it in the early 90s, so I was still early elementary school," said Walsh, who played baseball as a child and now plays softball.
Neither fan singled out a favourite Blue Jays player.
"I feel like they're all gelling so well as a group, it would be hard to pick just one," said Walsh.
Even though there are more than thirty games still to play, you can already get playoff tickets in Toronto. That may be jumping the gun, but both Walsh and Faulkner are hopeful their team could take it all the way.
"We want to win the division," said Faulkner. "I wouldn't count them out."
