In Monday\u2019s nail-biter Game 7 of the American League Championship Series<\/a>, Toronto defeated the Seattle Mariners 4-3.<\/p>\nThe comeback win, which saw George Springer slam a three-run shot in the seventh inning, had Jays fans jump on social media to share their World Series memories, including Joe Carter\u2019s walk-off homer in 1993.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just remember Joe Carter basically hit the home run, and that was it,\u201d said Moodie.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Now 40, she said she has spent her life surrounded by baseball. Her family played the sport when she was growing up.<\/p>\n
And in 1999, Moodie and her sister Alexandria performed the national anthem in Cree ahead of a Jays game in Toronto. It was the first time O Canada was sung at a Jays game in a language other than English or French, said Moodie. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was like a dream come true. Watching them my whole life, basically, and being a singer and then getting to sing for my favourite baseball team. It\u2019s still a surreal moment to me today.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I would give to be there to sing again for them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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Lisa Pateman, of Lethbridge, Alta., poses in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout \u2013 Lisa Pateman<\/p>\n
A childhood memory that never faded<\/p>\n
Lisa Pateman doesn\u2019t call herself a baseball fan. But she was in 1992.<\/p>\n
When the Jays took on the Atlanta Braves in the World Series that year, Pateman sidelined her post-secondary studies in Moose Jaw, Sask., to watch the games at a local bar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was crowded. Every time Toronto won, there was just massive camaraderie \u2026 it was one of those things that even if you weren\u2019t a fan, you loved the feeling that you had there watching it,\u201d Pateman said from Lethbridge, Alta.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was epic. Like, you can\u2019t really even describe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pateman, 51, admitted she hasn\u2019t watched a game since. But she still proudly wears a Jays championship sweatshirt \u2014 a piece of memorabilia she has to share with her husband and their 19-year-old son.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAll three of us are kind of fighting over it,\u201d she said with a laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Who will wear the coveted shirt on Friday is up in the air. Pateman said the family will be tuning in to watch the Jays square off against the defending 2024 champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, in Game 1 at Rogers Centre in Toronto.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s just something about (the Jays) being the only Canadian baseball team in the league.The U.S. has been getting the hockey (Stanley Cup). We should get their sport,\u201d said Pateman.<\/p>\n
Superfan\u2019s memorabilia-filled \u2018man cave\u2019 keeps the spirit alive<\/p>\n
Toronto superfan Curtis Halliday said a headache didn\u2019t stop him from tuning into the final game of the 1993 series while he was in a hotel room in Halifax.\u00a0<\/p>\n
His now-wife had to tell him to quiet down so he wouldn\u2019t wake other guests.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI said there\u2019s no worries of that. We opened the door, and there were just people running up and down the hallways and the corridors. Everybody was just alive,\u201d said Halliday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Heading into Friday\u2019s game, Halliday said the hype is the same \u2014 the difference is he\u2019s \u201cnot that young anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Halliday, 52, has been collecting Jays memorabilia since he was 12 and has some items from the previous World Series wins.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He created a \u201cman cave\u201d in his home in Barrington Passage, N.S., and it\u2019s filled with everything from a bar displaying his Jays baseball cards to hanging Jays jerseys and a Jays peanut dispenser.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s where he plans on watching Friday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been 32 years since we\u2019ve been here, and it might be 32 more. So you know, enjoy every moment of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diehard Toronto Blue Jays fan Natashia Moodie has been reflecting on her favourite baseball team\u2019s journey to this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-234206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Natashia Moodie, of Gods Lake First Nation, Man., poses in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout \u2013 Natashia Moodie<\/p>\n