Much like many Toronto Blue Jays fans, team manager John Schneider isn’t exactly over the franchise’s heartbreaking World Series loss.

“When it ends, I mean, it hurt. It hurt for a while… it still hurts,” Schneider said in an interview this week with TSN 1050’s OverDrive show.

But coming into the season with uncertain expecations around the league, Schneider appears to appreciate a run Toronto hasn’t seen the likes of since 1993.

“I think if anyone said to us in spring training, ‘hey, you guys are going to win the American League East and win the American League and be in the World Series,’ you take it. But to be that close [and not win]… it sucked,” Schneider added.

With the seven World Series games taking place over just nine days, Schneider admitted there wasn’t a whole lot of time for mid-postseason reflection. And with Toronto suffering back-to-back losses in Game 6 and 7 to hand the title to the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Blue Jays manager admits it’s been tough to watch the World Series back in full yet.

“I haven’t looked back at all the plays, I haven’t dissected the series yet… I don’t think I’m ready for that yet,” he said. “I think when I dive back into it, I’ll kind of appreciate what an epic World Series it was. It was everything I had hoped for, just the outcome was wrong.”

Schneider also added that sometimes he will “wake up” thinking about two of the tougher losses in the series: a Game 6 defeat that ended on a surprise lineout double play, and a Game 3 loss that tied the record for the longest-ever World Series game at 18 innings.

“When you’re in the game, you’re in the game. You’re not thinking about… how the series is going to be documented or talked about years down the road. When you’re in it, you’re just trying to win, but looking back on it, yeah, man, it was, it was awesome,” Schneider added.

“I tried to set aside a minute or two each day to kind of be a baseball fan. Those minutes add up quite a bit throughout the whole postseason, you take a minute or two each day to be a fan and appreciate what you’ve accomplished and where you are, and then you go to work.”

But whenever he does get around to watching the World Series back again, Schneider said he’ll be doing so with a critcial eye.

“Hopefully there’s a learning opportunity for somebody somewhere,” Schneider said. “There’s a million of them, probably in just those seven games.”