Is Eugene Levy our greatest good luck charm?
Petition to have him attend all Canadian sporting events
It’s always a delight to see Eugene Levy out and about.
Even if we don’t catch him in-person, having dinner at Avant Goût or picking up pastries at Bar Centrale, it’s a source of comfort, and perhaps good fortune, to spot him on our screens.
Levy, a long-time Blue Jays fan, appeared to be a little stressed during the Jays’ historic, high-stakes American League Championship Series. But, as has been the case at previous major sporting events, his presence brought good luck: the Jays eventually won and advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1993. (To put things in perspective, in 1993, Maniac Mansion was still on the air.)
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Back in 2019, Levy was spotted in a We the North T-shirt during the NBA Finals, and what do you know, the Raptors won the championship.
However, the Jays did lose their 2004 home opener, at which Levy threw the first pitch, 7–0. We do not hold our national treasure accountable for this. But, just in case, let’s have him enjoy the rest of the series from really good seats off the field.
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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.
