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?
Following the Entire 1993 Blue Jays Season In Real Time on Twitter Sounds Kinda Awesome
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Oct 23, 2017, 12:46 EDTUpdated: Oct 23, 2017, 13:24 EDT
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!
Quick update: this is happening. Bot will begin tweeting news at end of 1992 WS, with updates throughout offseason into 1993. Stay tuned.
Spending my weekend poring over 25-year-old sports sections in the Toronto Star archives really took me back to my academia days
Awesomeness. And with the anniversary of the end of the 1992 World Series fast approaching (it’s tomorrow), Matt’s apparently ready to go:
The account is @RealTime93Jays. Tweets will start the moment the '92 WS ends, will carry through offseason news in real time, right into '93
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?
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:
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
At the dome! Losing my hearing!
At friends house in Cambridge. We all piled in a car and the first impromptu baseball parade in downtown Galt happened. Lots of people!
My parents went without me. High fived after the homer. Mom's ring sliced my dad's forehead. Spent the celebration in first aid. #karma
I was alone in the basement watching (my parents were at a bar and the babysitter didn't care), jumping right along with Joe.
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.
I had tickets for Game 7. I was probably one of the only people in Toronto who had mixed emotions about the home run.
I was 13 and my parents took me to the wedding of a 3rd cousin who divorced after 6 months.
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
Parents told the sitter I could stay up for the end. Sitter didn't listen, watched on tape the next day. Yes I'm still angry at that sitter.
I was at a bar with friends!'
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.
I was at a fundraiser dinner hiding a crazy big portable tv & rabbit ears under the table..many people I didn't know came over to say hi..
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: @RealTime93Jays.
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