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Jamie Schacter Jamie Schacter (left) dressed up as a zombie last Halloween. <\/p>\nTrick-or-treat, the Toronto Blue Jays gave baseball fans something good to eat as the World Series comes back to the city on Halloween.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays are up 3-2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series, coming back home to the Rogers Centre for Game 6 on Friday night. <\/p>\n
This is the exact scenario Jamie Schacter was hoping to avoid.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the schedule came out and it was like Game 6 is Halloween, I just went, \u2018It\u2019d be so nice if the Jays could win it in four or five and view it on the road.\u2019 But you know, that\u2019s going to be hard to do,\u201d Schacter told CTV News Toronto in an interview on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
Halloween is essentially a holiday for Schacter and his family, an honoured tradition passed on between generations as he says his older brother\u2019s love for horror films made the holiday fun growing up and his grandmother would make caramel apples for the children on her street. <\/p>\n
Schacter, 53, has been decorating his home for the last 20 years, starting off with a few things strewn on the lawn to now running multiple air compressors and sourcing custom-made props being flown in from different places in the United States.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a pretty big effort,\u201d Schacter said, adding that they have turned the holiday into a charity event, where his law firm matches donations for Toronto\u2019s Hospital for Sick Children and Toronto Western Hospital. \u201cLots of people from not just the city, the GTA people, people come in from out of town, and they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, we were told we had to come here.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Typically, Schacter says they see upwards of 1,500 people come by the house on Halloween night, with the peak of the visits happening between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. Hundreds more people come by in the days leading up to the big day. <\/p>\n
As a season\u2019s ticket holder for the Blue Jays, Schacter said his phone has been blowing up for what his plans will be for Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you going to do? Because it\u2019s Halloween, you\u2019re going to have hundreds of people, you have to be home,\u201d Schacter said.<\/p>\n
Rest assured, it is essentially a win-win situation for Schacter and his 19-year-old son. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy son and I, who will be dressed up in makeup\u2026 zombies with Jays jerseys, Jays hats, and heading down to the game,\u201d Schacter said, adding they will likely miss opening pitch to help with the Halloween \u201cmadness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jamie Schacter Jamie Schacter (left) dressed up as a zombie last Halloween. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife was like, \u2018You got to go to the game, we will be fine at home without you. We will be able to run everything.\u2019 So, I\u2019ll be leaving probably a house full of people and sort of having the best of both worlds, doing Halloween and making it to the game,\u201d Schacter said. <\/p>\n
Schacter says they plan to put out a portable projector screen to show the game for passersby on Friday night. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s some thought of putting the projector on maybe a neighbour\u2019s lawn, if necessary,\u201d Schacter said. <\/p>\n
While it\u2019s a bit chilly in Zahir Ratanshi\u2019s opinion to watch the game outside, the Stouffville resident said they plan to have a World Series watch party with some of his neighbours. As many don a costume on Friday, Ratanshi said everybody in his family will be \u201cdraped in Jays gear.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s going to be expected to go to school or go to work from this house in their Jays gear\u2026 no question\u2019s asked,\u201d Ratanshi said. <\/p>\n
The Jays spirit will also come alive by way of \u201cJack-o-Jay\u201d lanterns, Ratanshi adds.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pumpkin will (not) be a ghost or a werewolf or something like that. It\u2019s still a work-in-progress, but it will be the Jay\u2019s logo,\u201d Ratanshi said. <\/p>\n
Toronto takes the field at Rogers Centre at 8 p.m. EST for Game 6 in the World Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trick-or-treat, the Toronto Blue Jays gave baseball fans something good to eat as the World Series comes back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[712,49,48,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-253662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253662","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=253662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}