TORONTO – On the flight home from Seattle after a crushing Game 5 loss left the Toronto Blue Jays down 3-2 in the American League Championship Series, John Schneider and his players looked at each other and said, “Good.”

The word had become a mantra for the team, adopted from a clip of Jocko Willink, a former U.S. Navy SEAL turned author and podcaster, who preaches a “Good” mindset as a way to adapt when obstacles arise.

So, their season on the line last October, “it was like, OK, good, what are we going to do?” Schneider recalled Wednesday afternoon. “We've got to find a way to win one game. We won one game in a row 94 times in the regular season; we've got to do it again. And if we do that, we've got to do it again the next day. 

“That's where we are right now,” he continued. “We have to go 1-0 once 10 times. That's how you have to approach it when the season's so long. You're not........

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