Dear Gossips,   

The jokes about Drake and Kendrick Lamar started the minute the Jays won game 7 of the ALCS on Monday night. Drake, of course, is from Toronto and Kendrick is from LA and their feud has, at this point, become monoculture. 

 

If we’re talking about musicians and baseball though, one of the surprises at the start of the series was that it was Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, narrating a hype video that played at the beginning of game 1 set to his song “Timeless” with Playboi Carti that includes the lyrics:

“City on fire when I'm comin' home
Fill up the sky (yeah), I fill up the Dome
They'll play it one day (yeah), it's a hell of a show”

 

The “Dome” of course refers to the Skydome, where the Jays play, and it’s been renamed now but for most of us who live here, the Dome will always be the Dome. 

It’ll be interesting to see if there will be a new edit for the World Series, if Abel will continue to be involved. There’s a lot of superstition in baseball and it’s hard to say what and who they determine is lucky or not. But also, the World Series is a spectacle and both teams will want to put on a show before the show. Last year, for example, Ice Cube gave what is now considered a legendary performance of “It Was a Good Day”. Cube was back at the beginning of this season to deliver the World Series trophy to Dodgers Stadium. And he recently filmed a hype video of his own for his team to start the playoffs. Will there be more? 

 

To go back to the Drake and Kendrick thing… I mean, as mortifying as it might be, LOL, for us in Toronto, “Not Like Us” would blow the roof off the place (if they had a roof) in LA. This is one of the pop culture side plots related to the World Series that the internet is obsessed with. Drake by the way is making headlines today because he responded to a random DM from a high school student asking for a senior quote. 

Whether or not he makes an appearance in some form in support of the Jays remains a mystery… although, um, there’s that whole “Drake curse” thing (which he has tried to downplay) and, like, I’m not sure we want to f-ck around and find out right now. 

 

There’s another Canadian musician who is somehow in the mix here: Michael Bublé. Shohei Ohtani’s walk-up song is Michael’s version of “Feelin’ Good”, which MB has been talking about since last fall when Shohei made the switch. It’s the most “intimidating and scary” that Michael has ever been. 

 

And he just talked about it with Stephen A Smith in a new interview, how conflicted he is because of course he’s Jays all the way… but he also can’t deny that it’s a flex that the greatest to ever play is playing against his home team and walks out to his voice. 

 

If it were up to me, though, for whatever celebrity moment the Jays might be planning, it would be Justin Bieber performing “Never Say Never”. Because it checks so many boxes! The song lyrics suit the moment perfectly. There’s actually a Bieber on the Blue Jays, the jersey is right there, he’s a huge name, and at the Dome, they play JB’s “Sorry” whenever Shane Bieber, the pitcher, gets a strikeout. 

 

It’s not just Shane Bieber, the Jays are fans! 

Also, has JB been a little quiet about the Jays lately? Maybe it’s something, maybe it’s nothing. 

Here's Michael Bublé yesterday at Good Morning America. 

Yours in gossip, 

Lainey 

Michael Bublé is seen at "Good Morning America" in New York City, October 21, 2025
Photo credits: Jason Howard/ BauerGriffin/ INSTARimages

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