Blue Jays catcher Tyler Heineman partied a little too hard after the team’s monumental win
In his defence this is very exciting
For the first time in 10 years, the Blue Jays won the American League East title last week. For the sports-averse, this is a big deal, as it means the Jays have home field advantage through the ALCS (if they make it that far), and didn’t have to slug it out in the Wild Card series, which wrapped up last night.
Torontonians are happy. But no one is happier than Jays catcher Tyler Heineman, who sprayed so much celebratory champagne into the crowd that he got a talking to from management.
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In an interview with the Foul Territory podcast, Heineman says a higher-up scolded him for his flagrant violation of what the Liquor Licence Act might call “failing to check ID.”
“I got told afterward, ‘Hey, you should probably not do that because you don’t know their ages,’” says Heineman, referring to fans in the crowd who could have been minors. “I was only pouring champagne into the mouths of people with beards or women that I knew were over 30 years old. But I understood, and I apologized.”
Give the man an honorary Smart Serve!
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
