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Mar 29, 2026, 01:44 PM ET

It took more than a few months, but Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider received some words of wisdom on how to deal with his World Series Game 7 heartbreak from Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr.

It's not because Kerr took his time to reach out; it's because his handwritten letter, which was dated the day after the Blue Jays' loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in the deciding game of the World Series, had been sitting on Schneider's desk at Rogers Centre during the offseason without the manager's knowledge.

Schneider said he saw the letter and opened it after the Blue Jays returned to Toronto following spring training.

"As I read it," Schneider told The Athletic, "I was like, 'holy s---.'"

"I don't know you," Kerr wrote, according to The Athletic , "but I felt compelled to reach out after watching your incredible leadership on display during the World Series."

In the letter, Kerr compared Schneider's loss to the Warriors' Game 7 defeat in the 2016 NBA Finals to…