What are you up to for the next year or so?
If you answer is anything but &#8220;celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Blue Jays&#8217; most recent World Series championship,&#8221; you&#8217;re doing it wrong. Or, perhaps, very, very right. But either way, our good friend Matt English &#8212; aka @matttomic &#8212; has apparently got all kinds of minutiae from that incredible season ready to be stuffed straight into your darkest, most depressing hole of unrepentant filth&#8230; your Twitter feed!
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If I made a Twitter bot that tweeted as-it-happened updates from the 1993 Jays season all next year (25th anniversary) would you be into it?
&mdash; ℳatt (@matttomic) <a href="https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/914153761735630848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">Quick update: this is happening. Bot will begin tweeting news at end of 1992 WS, with updates throughout offseason into 1993. Stay tuned.&mdash; ℳatt (@matttomic) <a href="https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/920313236741902337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">Spending my weekend poring over 25-year-old sports sections in the Toronto Star archives really took me back to my academia days&mdash; ℳatt (@matttomic) <a href="https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/920316253394305024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2017</a></blockquote>
Awesomeness. And with the anniversary of the end of the 1992 World Series fast approaching (it&#8217;s tomorrow), Matt&#8217;s apparently ready to go:
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The account is <a href="https://twitter.com/RealTime93Jays?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RealTime93Jays</a>. Tweets will start the moment the &#39;92 WS ends, will carry through offseason news in real time, right into &#39;93 <a href="https://t.co/DQlpHmJUGV">https://t.co/DQlpHmJUGV</a>
&mdash; ℳatt (@matttomic) <a href="https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/922165437093199872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2017</a></blockquote>
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This right here is pretty great. So get following! I mean, we all know that it&#8217;s not just going to be a happy ending, but a deliriously happy one. In fact, today just happens to be the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Joe Carter home run that ended the 1993 season and made the Blue Jays back-to-back World Series champions. And, hoo boy, do people have some great stories about that incredible moment in Toronto (and Canadian) sports history &#8212; several of which I was told today because I mistakenly thought it was the 25th anniversary &#8212; which was especially dumb of me, seeing as I was already contemplating this piece about Matt&#8217;s project &#8212; and got a bunch of great responses about it on Twitter:
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at home and I almost put a hole through the ceiling from jumping up so high when that ball went over the wall. What a great moment
&mdash; Allan Chow (@chow_allan) <a href="https://twitter.com/chow_allan/status/922485531082153985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">watching it in a hockey arena in northern Alberta during my brothers hockey game on a 10 inch black and white TV in the lobby.&mdash; Mark Wheeler (@Leafsfanwheel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Leafsfanwheel/status/922485877669900288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">At the dome! Losing my hearing!&mdash; Leezer (@LeezerShort) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeezerShort/status/922486093139755008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">At friends house in Cambridge. We all piled in a car and the first impromptu baseball parade in downtown Galt happened. Lots of people!&mdash; JMoco (@Jmoco11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jmoco11/status/922486348140949504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">Perhaps the greatest part of my story of that night even though I was at the game was parading up Yonge with my friend ... 1/&mdash; James G (@james_in_to) <a href="https://twitter.com/james_in_to/status/922486550012739584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">we spot some dude puking in a garbage can next to the subway entrance and lo! it&#39;s our good friend and neighbour, so we helped him home too.&mdash; James G (@james_in_to) <a href="https://twitter.com/james_in_to/status/922486803751305216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">My parents went without me. High fived after the homer. Mom&#39;s ring sliced my dad&#39;s forehead. Spent the celebration in first aid. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/karma?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#karma</a>&mdash; Matt MacLellan (@mattymaclellan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mattymaclellan/status/922486829395382272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">I was alone in the basement watching (my parents were at a bar and the babysitter didn&#39;t care), jumping right along with Joe.&mdash; Joshua (@JoshuaHowsam) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaHowsam/status/922487087760379910?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">Funny story from my Mom at the bar. Off the bat she thought it was another yanked foul ball and looked away. Missed it clearing the fence.&mdash; Joshua (@JoshuaHowsam) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaHowsam/status/922487375594434561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">I had tickets for Game 7. I was probably one of the only people in Toronto who had mixed emotions about the home run.&mdash; Andrew Benjamin (@ThisEnragesMe) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisEnragesMe/status/922487993969061888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack"><a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewStoeten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndrewStoeten</a> watched at home w/ fam + Aunt/Uncle who recently had 1st child. Had to be quiet to not wake the sleeping baby.&mdash; Jon Wicks (@jonwicks) <a href="https://twitter.com/jonwicks/status/922488121123655681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">I was 13 and my parents took me to the wedding of a 3rd cousin who divorced after 6 months.&mdash; De Santo (@shady08029) <a href="https://twitter.com/shady08029/status/922488253692878849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">I was at home in Port Hope. 13 years old. I had a ticket. My Mom took it away because she saw me riding a bike sans helmet. True story&mdash; Marc MacDonald (@PHDMAC) <a href="https://twitter.com/PHDMAC/status/922488317895045122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">Parents told the sitter I could stay up for the end. Sitter didn&#39;t listen, watched on tape the next day. Yes I&#39;m still angry at that sitter.&mdash; Simon Sharkey-Gotlieb (@simon_shargot) <a href="https://twitter.com/simon_shargot/status/922488416473825281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">All my friends in grade 3 had to sleep, my dad let me stay up. I was the only one on my class who saw it. Greatest.&mdash; Kraapo 4 Kaapo (@Vishal_Hussain) <a href="https://twitter.com/Vishal_Hussain/status/922489290843549696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">I was at a bar with friends!&#39;&mdash; liz (@biggles14) <a href="https://twitter.com/biggles14/status/922489567432675330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">a Bowling Alley. I was 8 and this kid in my class had a birthday party and no one went, but my mother made me go to be nice.&mdash; Blarf! Of the Cave Goblins (@AdrianCrisostim) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdrianCrisostim/status/922501127459037184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottyMacThinks/status/922489969452703744">https://twitter.com/ScottyMacThinks/status/922489969452703744</a>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">I was at a fundraiser dinner hiding a crazy big portable tv &amp; rabbit ears under the table..many people I didn&#39;t know came over to say hi..&mdash; Catherine Stem ? (@CathQCT) <a href="https://twitter.com/CathQCT/status/922492141829439491?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-width="550" data-lang="en" data-dnt="true" data-partner="jetpack">My friend&#39;s dad was with Jack Layton that night and apparently Layton walked up and down Yonge playing his saxophone all night ?&mdash; Victoria ? (@biaginger) <a href="https://twitter.com/biaginger/status/922495327034163200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Also it was 1993, wouldn’t that make it the 24th anniversary?
&mdash; Tiger Sammy (@tigersammy) <a href="https://twitter.com/tigersammy/status/922487539797078016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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It’s all good, it’s worth celebrating regardless <a href="https://t.co/YS0zeY1EsP">pic.twitter.com/YS0zeY1EsP</a>
&mdash; Tiger Sammy (@tigersammy) <a href="https://twitter.com/tigersammy/status/922487881549037568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The 1992 series was incredible in its own right, of course, and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ll talk about its anniversary tomorrow (because it&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s going to be some kind of avalanche of Jays news in the next 24 hours). But the way it ended &#8212; in the 11th inning with a great exhale of relief, as the Jays barely managed to avoid allowing the Braves, down to their final out for a second time (the first having been in the 9th), to again tie it up and live on to try and force a Game Seven &#8212; just doesn&#8217;t quite measure up to the instantaneous visceral joy of a walk-off World Series winning home run.
And with that kind of ending, how could you not want to follow along for the next year? Give it a go: @<a href="https://twitter.com/realtime93jays">RealTime93Jays</a>.

What are you up to for the next year or so?

If you answer is anything but "celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Blue Jays' most recent World Series championship," you're doing it wrong. Or, perhaps, very, very right. But either way, our good friend Matt English -- aka @matttomic -- has apparently got all kinds of minutiae from that incredible season ready to be stuffed straight into your darkest, most depressing hole of unrepentant filth... your Twitter feed!

https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/914153761735630848

[tweet https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/920313236741902337 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/920316253394305024 hide_thread="true"]

Awesomeness. And with the anniversary of the end of the 1992 World Series fast approaching (it's tomorrow), Matt's apparently ready to go:

https://twitter.com/matttomic/status/922165437093199872

This right here is pretty great. So get following! I mean, we all know that it's not just going to be a happy ending, but a deliriously happy one. In fact, today just happens to be the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Joe Carter home run that ended the 1993 season and made the Blue Jays back-to-back World Series champions. And, hoo boy, do people have some great stories about that incredible moment in Toronto (and Canadian) sports history -- several of which I was told today because I mistakenly thought it was the 25th anniversary -- which was especially dumb of me, seeing as I was already contemplating this piece about Matt's project -- and got a bunch of great responses about it on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/chow_allan/status/922485531082153985

[tweet https://twitter.com/Leafsfanwheel/status/922485877669900288 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/LeezerShort/status/922486093139755008 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/Jmoco11/status/922486348140949504 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/james_in_to/status/922486550012739584 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/james_in_to/status/922486803751305216 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/mattymaclellan/status/922486829395382272 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/JoshuaHowsam/status/922487087760379910 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/JoshuaHowsam/status/922487375594434561 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/ThisEnragesMe/status/922487993969061888 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/jonwicks/status/922488121123655681 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/mikedesanto7/status/922488253692878849 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/PHDMAC/status/922488317895045122 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/simon_shargot/status/922488416473825281 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/Vishal_Hussain/status/922489290843549696 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/biggles14/status/922489567432675330 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/AdrianCrisostim/status/922501127459037184 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/ScottyMacThinks/status/922489969452703744 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/ScottyMacThinks/status/922490119118032896 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/CathQCT/status/922492141829439491 hide_thread="true"]

[tweet https://twitter.com/victoriapopov/status/922495327034163200 hide_thread="true"]

https://twitter.com/tigersammy/status/922487539797078016

https://twitter.com/tigersammy/status/922487881549037568

The 1992 series was incredible in its own right, of course, and I'm sure we'll talk about its anniversary tomorrow (because it's not like there's going to be some kind of avalanche of Jays news in the next 24 hours). But the way it ended -- in the 11th inning with a great exhale of relief, as the Jays barely managed to avoid allowing the Braves, down to their final out for a second time (the first having been in the 9th), to again tie it up and live on to try and force a Game Seven -- just doesn't quite measure up to the instantaneous visceral joy of a walk-off World Series winning home run.

And with that kind of ending, how could you not want to follow along for the next year? Give it a go: @<a href="https://twitter.com/realtime93jays">RealTime93Jays</a>.

Following the Entire 1993 Blue Jays Season In Real Time on Twitter Sounds Kinda Awesome

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