Originally Posted by Mutt

wasn't always that way - Blue Jays had the highest payroll in baseball, a brand new stadium the world was talking about, stars from throughout baseball wanted to go to Toronto, and record attendance figures - 4mil a year through the turnstiles.

then something funny happened - the Blue Jays won back to back World Series. the labor stoppages didn't help but the truth is that Toronto is a bandwagon/trendy town. the vast majority of the 4 million fans a year weren't real baseball fans. once the World Series had been won, twice, they left in droves, never to return. most will say it was the strikes/lockouts that turned them off the game, not to mention the team being dismantled, ownership and management changes, but the real reason is they just weren't baseball fans.

making it worse is the Skydome, now Rogers Center, is the worst stadium on the planet, a concrete mausoleum. it was built right before the renaissance of the old style ballpark architecture with all the modern amenities. Toronto needs a nice outdoor ballpark, fans would come back. there are more ball fans out there than the 20,000 who still turn out.

i have no patience for baseball, too slow, too many games and those work stoppages baseball was plagued with really did turn me off - i don't like baseball players.

and now hockey is making the same mistakes, letting Donald Fehr once again turn the fans of another sport against the guys who play the game.