Saturday, May 16, 2026

The tunnel to the show

Big league dreams
Toronto, ON
May 2026
This photo originally shared on Instagram


I have hazy childhood memories of attending my first Montreal Expos baseball game at Jarry Park, and the part that most sticks with me is the moment we walked through the access tunnel into the stadium.

It felt like a movie, a long, dark concrete corridor, with brilliant light pouring into the other end. As my eyes adjusted to the light, I could barely make out the massive space beyond, the stands filled with fans, the sounds of the crowd gradually building as we slowly moved toward the opening.

It was a moment filled with promise and potential as the gigantic space gradually revealed itself. Four-year-old Carmi didn’t really understand the mechanics of the game, but already I could feel the magic of the moment, and why thousands of strangers had decided to end up in the same place at the same time.

To this day, that moment is a trigger for my soul every time I walk into a ballpark. And so it was as we headed in to watch the Blue Jays at Toronto’s Rogers Centre, a brief moment of anticipation in a dusty concrete tunnel not far removed from the spot where I first discovered why these fields of dreams are so dreamlike in the first place.

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