DODGERS’ Shohei Ohtani (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Hey, you maple syrup-addicted Canucks. Lay off with the trash talk against Our Unicorn. Go kiss a moose!

In Toronto on Saturday, with their team getting beat like a red-headed Manitobian, some Blue Jays fans took to chanting “We don’t need you,” when Shohei Ohtani was at bat.

What a Canadian insult. Boy, did that sting ….

Anyways, as a matter of fact-checking, they indeed do need a Shohei Ohtani – which MLB team doesn’t? – and Shohei is not strictly speaking Ours, although if the U.S can contemplate Canada as the 51st state, why not annex Japan, or at least the part that generates such great ball players?

Which is a nice segue to the accomplishment of Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who did in a World Series game what most pitchers couldn’t do in a beer league: pitch a complete game.

He struck out eight hitters, walked only one and retired the final 20 batters.

Complete games these days in baseball are as rare as honest politicians and sober reporters. The typical manager today, studying his Moneyball stat sheet, is not embarrassed – but should be – about playing eight or nine pitchers in nine innings.

Next thing you know there will be a search for ambidextrous or perhaps schizophrenic hurlers, who will throw two warmup pitches before returning to the bullpen, or – perhaps – to the parking lot.

Curse you, Billy Beane!