US EditionBlue Jays are the bird of choice for many this Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving this year coincides with the ALCS, as the Toronto Blue Jays are slated to face the Seattle Mariners in Game 1 on Sunday and Game 2 on Monday at Rogers Centre.
- Fan enthusiasm has surged because this is the first Blue Jays ALCS appearance since 2016, and a Rogers survey found nearly half of Canadians would skip Thanksgiving dinner to attend a game.
- Rogers is giving away 500 free postseason tickets at Rogers Centre while fans bought jerseys and travelled to Toronto for the games.
- Families said they will keep the game on during Thanksgiving, with many households replacing a full turkey dinner with a takeaway turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce and treating game time as family time.
- The series will shift to Seattle for Game 3 on Wednesday and Game 4 on Thursday, with a Rogers survey found that 1,503 Canadians polled October 6-8 with a +/- 3 percentage-point margin of error.
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Blue Jays are the bird of choice for many this Thanksgiving – 105.9 The Region
Thanksgiving dinner is looking a bit different for one Vancouver couple this year. The normally well-stocked table, with Turkey and all the fixings, will be replaced with a takeaway turkey sandwich with cranberry sauce, and the usual dinner table conversation replaced with a much-awaited Blue Jays baseball game, said Helen Vlahos. Vlahos was visiting Toronto with her partner, Wolf Schneider, for a family event this weekend. “This is more importa…
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