The Blue Jays are communicating the World Series message loud and clear with their Game 1 win

TORONTO – In the world of underdogs, my favorite philosopher is Duke. He’s the trainer who, at the end of the first round in “Rocky,” pleads with his overconfident hero Apollo Creed: “He doesn’t know it’s a fucking show. He thinks it’s a fucking fight.”

The Dodgers — if they needed the information — learned Friday night that the World Series wouldn’t just be a televised coronation. Trying to defend their title will be a damned battle. The battle in Game 1 was fought on the Blue Jays’ terms with relentless punching from the length of their lineup and an insistence on never giving up on a strikeout. With the Blue Jays, it gets interesting when one of their hitters hits two hits.

Toronto did to the Dodgers at Rogers Center what it did for two days earlier this month against the Yankees — hit, hit and then hit some more. In a nine-run sixth inning attack, the Blue Jays received either an RBI or a run scored from all nine spots in the lineup on their way to 11-4 victory Which refers to the memo that said the Blue Jays were supposed to roll and play dead for the Dodgers, they must have never gotten past Canadian customs.

“Everyone compared it to David versus Goliath,” Blue Jays shortstop Nathan Lux said. “But I think it’s like two goliaths – we’re the last two teams standing.”