Winnipeg Sun - Halloween party planners hustle to add World Series Game 6 to the agenda

Canadian Press

TORONTO — When Toronto Blue Jays fans pile into The Cat’s Cradle Sports and Spirits to watch Game 6 of the World Series on Friday night, they may get a little more than they bargained for: namely, fake cockroaches, bloody handprints and severed body parts.

Owner Barbara MacPhee goes all out for Halloween, turning the midtown sports bar into a scene straight out of “Tales from the Crypt” and hosting karaoke.

But this year, she has to push all of that back to make room for the bar’s bread and butter.

“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.

MacPhee is among the Torontonians trying to squeeze the matchup between the Jays and the Los Angeles Dodgers into a night already packed with Halloween festivities, from parties to trick-or-treating.

For MacPhee, that means taking her three kids out from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., handing out candy from 7 until 8, and then driving to the bar, which she said takes roughly 45 minutes with traffic. After the game, they’ll move back into scheduled spooky programming.

She just hopes it isn’t another six-and-a-half-hour 18-inning nail-biter.

“The whole day is going to be chaos from top to bottom,” she said.

While MacPhee is carving out a Game 6-sized slot in her schedule, some party planners are taking a subtler approach.

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