Baseball bandwagon: jumping on the Jays
The Toronto Blue Jays are on an unprecedented hot streak that could see them heading to the playoffs for the first time in over twenty years — and they're bringing a slew of suddenly-interested new fans with them.
Daniel Zakrzewski of TSN's BarDown is a longtime Jays supporter who isn't too impressed with the newbies. He laid out the "unofficial rules of hopping on the Blue Jays bandwagon":
But is this fairweather fandom necessarily a bad thing?
Toronto journalist and baseball fan Stacey May Fowles wrote a different kind of introductory guide for Jays newcomers — welcoming them with open arms in her latest piece for Torontoist.
She joins guest host Candy Palmater to talk about her favourite team and what their current success says about sports bandwagons.