Sportsnet reporter goes viral for sour-grapes Toronto Blue Jays take
The Toronto Blue Jays came up short in the World Series, but nobody can say they didn’t give it their all up to the end.
This was an underdog Blue Jays squad that went up against the most expensive MLB roster ever created in the LA Dodgers and still found a way to push them to the very edge. Toronto was two outs away from winning it all, and forced the Dodgers to make a miracle comeback in the ninth inning to get past them.
For many, the Blue Jays were the better team during this series because of how much they dominated the Dodgers at times. They didn’t come up with the championship in the end, that’s true, but they exemplified everything you could want from a baseball team.
That is an opinion surely held by Sportsnet reporter, and former MLB player, Caleb Joseph, who gave a brutally honest take on the Rogers Centre field after the game. In a rare moment, we even saw the reporter swear on a live broadcast.
“It’s gonna sound like sour grapes, and I don’t really give a sh*t. I think the better team did not win this series,” Joseph said on air. “I think the Blue Jays are the better team, and I feel like they played baseball a certain way that was infectious, that grabbed the attention of fans.
“It’s disheartening to see that the better team did not win. That’s not to take anything away from the Dodgers, but the Blue Jays did so many things correct, did so many things right.”
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— Rob Williams (@RobTheHockeyGuy) November 2, 2025
Joseph is a former MLB catcher who appeared in 425 games between 2014 and 2020, most while playing with the Baltimore Orioles. He did, however, have a brief stint with the Blue Jays in 2020, where he appeared in just three major league games.
In a lot of ways, the Blue Jays were the better team statistically, but just could not get the right plays to come at the right moments. Throughout this seven-game series, Toronto outscored L.A. by a 33-25 margin, had a better team batting average at .269, had fewer strikeouts and fewer errors, and struck out more batters.
Unfortunately, the one place where the Dodgers bested them was the long ball, smashing 11 home runs throughout this series compared to the Blue Jays’ eight. In the end, it was two solo home runs off of Dodger bats that made all the difference.
Toronto was better than the Dodgers in just about every single way except the one thing that changed the entire series. It’s frustrating, but you have to give L.A. all the credit in the world for coming up in clutch moments. The firepower throughout the Dodgers’ lineup was just a little too much for the Blue Jays to fully handle in the end.