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Originally Posted by TheU
I can't imagine caring for the Blue Jays with the way baseball is now. Just an absurd amount of spending in your own division, how on Earth can you hope to be competitive?
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The Red Sox have a rinky dink park and they manage to compete with the Evil Empire. The Jays could pack the Sky Dome at one time. What needs to change? I read an article years ago stating that the worst thing that ever happened to the Blue Jays from a business stand point in Toronto was winning the World Series. The writer pointed out that the Maple Leafs pack the house every night despite not winning since 1967. His opinion was that the Toronto sports fan was hungry for a championship. Once that hunger was gone they didn't care so much.
A good friend of mine attended a few Blue Jays games this summer. He is a big fan and he told me the whole Rogers Center experience just sucked. If most fans feel that way, how can the Blue Jays ever expect to compete with the Yankees who see crowds pushing 50,000 every game? $10 for a beer? Maybe they should lower prices to try and get more fans out to the ball park.