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Posted on 10/28/2025 5:29:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
In a country of 41 million people, here is an astonishing statistic that highlights a shared viewing experience: Game 1 of the 2025 World Series was watched by an average of seven million Canadians. That’s more than one-sixth of the entire population of Canada.
Game 2 clocked in at 6.6 million viewers.
Per Sportsnet, the Canadian rights holder for all Blue Jays games, Game 1 of the 2025 World Series is now the most-watched Blue Jays game ever per average viewer. Game 2 ranks second. It’s another marker for astounding viewership numbers in Canada this postseason for the Blue Jays: Toronto’s win over Seattle in Game 7 of the American League Championship series — highlighted by George Springer’s stunning three-run homer in the seventh inning — averaged six million viewers and peaked at 8.3 million.
What makes this World Series unique, as far as broadcast distribution, is that Canadians can watch the same home country broadcast during the postseason that they do during the regular season. That’s not something that exists for U.S. teams because the postseason rights are held by national outlets such as Fox, ESPN and TNT Sports. Since the Blue Jays are the only MLB team in Canada, their home television territory is the entire country.
From rinks in Toronto to pubs in Vancouver, the Blue Jays are Canada’s team Canadians at The Athletic told us that communities nationwide are setting aside hockey rivalries and old Expos wounds to back the Jays.
Sportsnet is owned by Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Communications, which is also the parent company of the Blue Jays. The U.S. broadcast is also accessible to Canadians, especially those who live in cities relatively close to the border.
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Am I the only one who noticed the smirkiness of the Blue Gays in the extra innings last night? It drove ne nuts. You’re in extra innings world series and you are just laughing your ass off. Are they still laughing?
What’s funny now?
You can look at it two ways...smirkiness or they realize its just a game and enjoy it and they’re loose.
What else they got to do?
Canada or woke LA? I’m going to bed.
I didn’t know Indians liked baseball that much.
Well, obviously they have nothing better to do.
Trump should raise their tariffs one percent for every run they score in the series.
Just happy to be there, wasn’t expected so they’re enjoying it.
BTW, when was the last time a Canadian hockey team won Lord Stanley’s Cup?
And that includes all of conservative Canada that’s where the farmers and the heartland is.
If you’ve ever noticed, in Japan, even high school baseball is a national obsession where the two major tournaments in Kobe are nationally televised, and every player wants to make the “Koshien”.
Been almost 30 since a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup maybe baseball will be their new pasttime.
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