2014 MOST INFLUENTIAL CANADIANS: EDWARD ROGERS

Justin Morneau ColoradoBy Bob Elliott

The Kansas City Royals were winning Game 6 of the World Series Tuesday Oct. 28 10-0 with only a few outs remaining before a Game 7 the next day.

About the eighth inning of the lopsided game someone told us: “Paul Beeston won’t be back with the Blue Jays in 2015.”

Too late to make any calls, but the next day we made a bunch.

After all Beeston’s future was more important than Game 7. Our Ken Fidlin can write a gamer 10 times better than I anyway.

If Beeston left, who would be replace him?

What was the future of general manager Alex Anthopoulos?

Ditto for manager John Gibbons.

All the phone calls resulted in zero franchise-shaking news in the executive suite.

It was status quo.

Beeston, whose contract expired at the end of October, would return for 2015 … or so we were told.

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