The Blue Jays punched their ticket to the postseason by winning the third wild card and will face Minnesota in one of the Wild Card series.

One of the frequent comment that is being made is that this fan or that fan thinks that after frustrating and occasionally brutal regular season, this team and it’s various shortcomings are equivalent to a moral failing, that it’s laziness or ineptness. They are terrible people and not worthy of playoff baseball. “I just wish it wasn’t these guys,” said one comment on TikTok.

Some of it is understandable — this has been an alarmingly up and down season. This is a team that never got going on all cylinders — there would be be fantastic wins followed by irrational losses.. This has caused a lack of trust this fanbase has in this group of Blue Jays. It never felt good.

But, it is important to note that despite all the failings of the 2023 Blue Jays, they are not corrupted, they are not lazy, they are not terrible baseball players, and they are not impure. They deserve to have made the playoffs under these current rules. You can disagree with the rules, but they are the rules all the teams played this season.

They were frustrating but they didn't do anything that deserves any kind of the ire that I saw on social media. Just hang on and see what happens.

It’s OK to enjoy this.