At the beginning of this year’s American League Championship Series I found myself pulling for the Seattle Mariners. After all, they’d never been to the World Series, a drought since their inception in 1977.
But on the Toronto Blue Jays bench there was a coach who’s had a drought since 1961, a certain Donald Arthur Mattingly, my hero since the Reagan administration.
With the Blue Jays win Donnie Baseball is finally going to the World Series, and this guy finds himself pulling for the team north of the border.
First time for everything.