tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post7879762772006545181..comments2024-02-29T23:31:03.341-05:00Comments on Out Of Left Field: YOU CAN'T SHAME A SNAKE IN THE FIELDTURF; OR, GODFREY JOINS THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERSsagerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08757652892056684490noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-6230931164534236812008-02-13T19:03:00.000-05:002008-02-13T19:03:00.000-05:00Mc79, I'm sure the Red Sox bandwagon you so fearle...Mc79, I'm sure the Red Sox bandwagon you so fearlessly hitched yourself to back in 2003 will roll through your town en route to Toronto sometime this summerDrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07271534213351978408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-45922445839775280212008-02-11T21:19:00.000-05:002008-02-11T21:19:00.000-05:00Toronto fans get 81 teams to watch their crap team...<I> Toronto fans get 81 teams to watch their crap team up close, as do Red Sox fans in Boston.</I><BR/><BR/>A-ha! So you admit the Red Sox are a crap team? Granted, they've won as many World Series as the Jays have in the past 60 years, and Toronto wasn't even around for half of that.sagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08757652892056684490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-44466303337710812932008-02-11T21:08:00.000-05:002008-02-11T21:08:00.000-05:00Personally, I'm just pissed that this offer wasn't...Personally, I'm just pissed that this offer wasn't extended to all Red Sox fans. For guys like me, who cheer for the Sox, this is one of my nine or ten chances this year to see them in T.O. Toronto fans get 81 teams to watch their crap team up close, as do Red Sox fans in Boston. Those members of the Nation who aren't in Boston deserve the REAL first shot at the tix.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-50313859522521338092008-02-11T21:01:00.000-05:002008-02-11T21:01:00.000-05:00What is it with Toronto and sports management?As a...What is it with Toronto and sports management?<BR/><BR/>As a sports-mad Torontonian, I’m saddled with the burden of having to put up with MLSE, Paul Godfrey, and the Canadian Soccer Association – all at the same time. <BR/><BR/>That has to qualify as some sort of human rights violation, doesn’t it? <BR/><BR/>As ridiculous as this stunt is, it’s nothing compared to the Godfrey-esque antics SkyDome-regulars are forced to put up with from April through September. In Paul Godfrey’s world, maintaining longstanding baseball traditions such as the counting of Ks is only worth doing if there’s an ad tie-in to be exploited. In fact, nothing’s worth doing if it can’t be sold. Douche bag in-game hosts enthusiastically notifying the fans that “we’ve got lots of giveaways comin’ up!” PA announcers who kibitz like they’re Ed McMahon. “Urban dance packs” whose only role is to plug FedEx. And a surplus of ribbon board space that, instead of being used to provide fans with more stats, info, and updates – you know, stuff they can use – is used to display the same goddamn ad over and over and over again. <BR/><BR/><BR/>With every passing year that Godfrey is in charge, the feeling one gets stepping inside the RC inches closer and closer to that of entering a Walmart. I don’t know about you, but I don’t like that feeling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16538424.post-13012120615506707652008-02-11T19:30:00.000-05:002008-02-11T19:30:00.000-05:00I'd send you a comment, but I'm afraid you took al...I'd send you a comment, but I'm afraid you took all my thoughts and put them into a more sensible (and albeit less colourful language) article that I could have done.<BR/>Once again, Sager says it all....<BR/>Now, if we out west could only get some semblance of baseball out here (no, the Golden league doesn't count, since it is just an slightly more expensive version of the Western Major Baseball League).....Jordie Dwyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07741596697910230850noreply@blogger.com