Blue Jays World Series postgame show's NSFW complaints fall on deaf Yankees ears

You ever want to see the definition of hypocrisy in action, laid out plain in the words materializing on your television screen? Then meet Caleb Joseph, the Toronto Blue Jays postgame television host who couldn't let the results of the World Series speak for themselves.

Joseph, a member of what is consistently the whiniest booth in television — beating the Red Sox group in a shocking upset — had the difficult assignment of summing up the Jays' devastation in the wake of a one-of-a-kind painful Game 7. Even the most hard-hearted Yankee fan had to feel for Toronto as the game zig-zagged and ended in a thump. It felt, the entire time, like the gritty Jays would survive. When they didn't, it was easy to feel as if a rug had been pulled out from under you.

But Joseph ... while he may have spoken for the fans when the cameras went on, couldn't help letting his emotions leak into the broadcast irrationally, mimicking an argument that sent the summer discourse haywire in the process and ratcheded up tensions between New York and Toronto as the AL East race heated up.

Joseph — and he doesn't care who knows it — believes the better team was robbed in the 2025 World Series. It's not fair that Jeff Hoffman surrendered a home run to Miguel Rojas to tie the game in the ninth; the contest should've ended after eight. It's not relevant that Isiah Kiner-Falefa took a meters-too-small lead; the game should've been called by default in favor of the home team because they "outplayed" their opponent, but conveniently not through the end of the series. The scoreboard simply did not matter in Joseph's eyes. The Blue Jays' heart should've given them the title.

Now, where have I heard this before? The argument that wins and losses weren't important, but run differential (or something nebulous beyond the scoreboard) was the true indicator of success? Ah, right, it was Michael Kay in June. And did Blue Jays fans — and, specifically, the Blue Jays pre- and postgame show — like that argument, or no? Did they take it well and rebut it logically, or...?

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Look. We get it. Emotions were high. But this type of argument — "Who cares that we lost? We were better" — is impossible to prove and hardly comforting. It's coping in the highest degree. Credit to Joseph for not caring what people think, but that's not going to stop us from thinking this should serve as a lesson that, eventually, the pressure hits you and you lose rationality in the heat of battle. Maybe next year they'll go easier on Yankee fans who can't figure out why their summer swoons keep swooning? Yeah, probably not.

The Jays postgame show should stick to what they know: accusing Aaron Judge of cheating without evidence and telling their players to drill him with baseballs.