CBC news - Forget monsters. The Blue Jays and Mother Nature are coming for you this Halloween
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- Nov 6
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Nick Logan · CBC News · Posted: Oct 31, 2025 8:58 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 31
It's a treat to have the Toronto Blue Jays in a position to win the World Series. The trick for many families and baseball fans will be being able to watch it happen.
And for those souls who sacrifice watching Game 6 to take the kids trick-or-treating, beware of Mother Nature. In some parts of the country, she's not going to be playing nice.
The confluence of wicked weather and the chance of Canada's only professional baseball team winning its first championship in 32 years could be forcing some tough decisions about celebrating Halloween tonight.
It's not the first time that the World Series has fallen on Halloween, but the Blue Jays weren't playing in those games.
The last time the Jays played in the World Series was in 1993, but the series ended on
Oct. 23 when they beat the Philadelphia Phillies. A year earlier, they won the series against the Atlanta Braves on Oct. 24.
Tonight's Game 6 against the Los Angeles Dodgers gets underway at 8 p.m. ET in Toronto.
Game night on fright night
Venues that were planning Halloween parties are now scrambling to set up for a doubleheader.
Barbara MacPhee is among them. The Torontonian goes all out for Halloween, turning her midtown sports bar, The Cat's Cradle Sports and Spirits, into a scene straight out of Tales from the Crypt and hosting karaoke.
But, as MacPhee told The Canadian Press, this year she has to push all of that back.
"I'm built on Halloween, and my husband is built on sports. So this day is like a mega-amalgamation of him versus me, pretty much," she quipped.
She'll take her three kids out from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., hand out candy from 7 until 8, and then drive to the bar, which she said takes roughly 45 minutes with traffic.
After the game, they'll return to scheduled spooky programming.
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