Penticton, Kelowna hockey teams broadcast Blue Jays games in-between periods

As the Western Hockey League’s Penticton Vees hit the ice for practice ahead of Friday night’s game against their Washington state-based rivals, the Wenatchee Wild, another cross-border battle was on Riley Pollock’s mind.

"I think that there's a lot of people that have been waiting a long time — or even their whole lives — for the Jays to be in the World Series [and] that are also diehard Vees fans," said Pollock, the team’s director of communications and "Voice of the Vees."

Choosing between watching a new season of Canada’s game, and the championship of America’s, is no easy matter.

"It would be a tough choice for me if I wasn’t broadcasting the game," Pollock admits. 

At least two Western Hockey League teams in the B.C. Interior have decided that, if you can’t beat baseball fever, you might as well join it. 

The Penticton Vees will open the doors of South Okanagan Events Centre two hours before puck drop to screen the first game of the World Series on the arena scoreboard and rink televisions. 

On Saturday, the Kelowna Rockets will do the same for game two. 

"We thought if we could do something to kind of celebrate [the Blue Jays], but also get people out to our game …  it was kind of a no-brainer.” said Pollock.

While hockey teams are jumping on the bandwagon, the Toronto Blue Jays' minor league farm team, the Vancouver Canadians, is keeping celebrations, so far, in the family.

The Jays' High-A affiliate is holding an invitation-only watching party on Friday, mainly for season ticket holders and their strongest supporters.

But on Tuesday, the team will host a public watch party for game four at Hero’s Welcome, a pub just down Main Street from Nat Bailey Stadium

"It’s first-come, first-served,” Canadians spokesperson