Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

[Peter_OS]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

the yanks and red sox should be in their own division

This is why MLB nees a salary cap to offset the high spending teams like the sox and yankees.

MLB lost me as a fan years ago. I cannot stand these players making millions.

[Vince]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Won't happen, Peter.MLB has by far the strongest union and will fight to never have a salary cap.

[Vince]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Won't happen, Peter.MLB has by far the strongest union and will fight to never have a salary cap.

[priceless]

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Cleveland should be in the East.We should send a petition to league offices to put us in the Central.Honestly,I cannot forsee the Jays contending anytime soon.

Even though the Sawx and Yanks have soe older players,you know that they will spend and spend like there is no tomorrow and get vitually any player they want.Lets be real,it's hard to compete with these guys.Only hope we got is the farm.And it's either hit or miss with these prospects.

There's no way Toronto and Detroit should be in separate divisions. Last year, they were done playing each other just a couple weeks into the season! That is just wrong. Toronto and Detroit had one of the biggest rivalries in baseball in the 80s and now it's completely gone thanks to the geniuses running MLB.

Since I doubt realignment will happen any time soon, I would like to see MLB return to a balanced schedule, with roughly the same number of games against each AL opponent. Teams competing for the same playoff spot (wildcard) but having vastly different schedules doesn't really make sense.

[priceless]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Cleveland should be in the East.We should send a petition to league offices to put us in the Central.Honestly,I cannot forsee the Jays contending anytime soon.

Even though the Sawx and Yanks have soe older players,you know that they will spend and spend like there is no tomorrow and get vitually any player they want.Lets be real,it's hard to compete with these guys.Only hope we got is the farm.And it's either hit or miss with these prospects.

There's no way Toronto and Detroit should be in separate divisions. Last year, they were done playing each other just a couple weeks into the season! That is just wrong. Toronto and Detroit had one of the biggest rivalries in baseball in the 80s and now it's completely gone thanks to the geniuses running MLB.

Since I doubt realignment will happen any time soon, I would like to see MLB return to a balanced schedule, with roughly the same number of games against each AL opponent. Teams competing for the same playoff spot (wildcard) but having vastly different schedules doesn't really make sense.

[Peter_OS]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Won't happen, Peter.MLB has by far the strongest union and will fight to never have a salary cap.

Well let them fight, they will have to cave in sometime. MLB needs to be fixed for the good of the game.

[Peter_OS]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Won't happen, Peter.MLB has by far the strongest union and will fight to never have a salary cap.

Well let them fight, they will have to cave in sometime. MLB needs to be fixed for the good of the game.

[theaub]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Rogers Centre? Is that the best they could do?

Ah well, the $17 million increase in payroll makes up for it...

[theaub]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Rogers Centre? Is that the best they could do?

Ah well, the $17 million increase in payroll makes up for it...

[VanCitySportsGuy]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Just saw the press conference....

Best news was Rogers upping the payroll.

210mil on payroll over 3 yrs. I'll take 70 mil over 53 mil anyday.

Since this off-season is basically over JP is better saving his dough this season and then having a 75-78 mil payroll the next 2 seasons after that.

Great day for Jays fans.

Too bad next years FA class is extremely weak.

I also like all the new scoreboards they're putting in the stadium.

I noticed Rogers took a jab at Bell.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Just saw the press conference....

Best news was Rogers upping the payroll.

210mil on payroll over 3 yrs. I'll take 70 mil over 53 mil anyday.

Since this off-season is basically over JP is better saving his dough this season and then having a 75-78 mil payroll the next 2 seasons after that.

Great day for Jays fans.

Too bad next years FA class is extremely weak.

I also like all the new scoreboards they're putting in the stadium.

I noticed Rogers took a jab at Bell.

[SPTO]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Since there has been a wide ranging set of topics since I last posted I will try to touch on them all and add some other things:

Let's start with the misnomer that attendance is declining. This is actually quite the opposite. The attendance is not the best but it's not the worst either. Here are the attendence figures and AL rank for the last 5 seasons.


2000: 1,705,712 10th

2001: 1,915,438 10th

2002: 1,637,900 11th

2003: 1,799,458 11th

2004: 1,900,041 11th


As you can see the numbers are very pedestrian but it seems Toronto has a good solid base for baseball. Knowing how Toronto fans are this is pretty good. Torontonians always cling on to a winner and they DO support losing teams if they're doing anything they can to win. Just look at the attendance for the Raptors over the last couple years.

The thing that is killing the Blue Jays from a profit margin basis is the dwindling TV numbers. Actually that's a bit of a misnomer as well cuz the TV numbers have generally been good tho not as great as the glory years. Last season the team had the worst TV numbers in 25 yrs which is not good. (this could also be why Rob Faulds was quietly shuffled out of the PBP gig tho it looks like it could be worse for us as Jamie Campbell is the favourite for the job ECH!)

As i've said before Torontonians will support a losing team if said team actually tries to improve itself. While the move today to increase budget is a bit puzzling since all the big names are gone it at least shows that Rogers is willing to make an investment. This payroll increase may very well be tied to the fact that Rogers now owns Skydome. The concessions, programs and merchandising sales will directly go into the coffers of Rogers which SHOULD go into payroll hence the increase.

As i've stated elsewhere the cosmetic changes for Skydome has long been overdue. I just hope that the FieldTurf they install is the kind that really simulates grass instead of the crap in Minnesota or Montreal last year. It's going to be weird not seeing the old Jumbotron but I guess a more modern scoreboard was neccessary.

[SPTO]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Since there has been a wide ranging set of topics since I last posted I will try to touch on them all and add some other things:

Let's start with the misnomer that attendance is declining. This is actually quite the opposite. The attendance is not the best but it's not the worst either. Here are the attendence figures and AL rank for the last 5 seasons.


2000: 1,705,712 10th

2001: 1,915,438 10th

2002: 1,637,900 11th

2003: 1,799,458 11th

2004: 1,900,041 11th


As you can see the numbers are very pedestrian but it seems Toronto has a good solid base for baseball. Knowing how Toronto fans are this is pretty good. Torontonians always cling on to a winner and they DO support losing teams if they're doing anything they can to win. Just look at the attendance for the Raptors over the last couple years.

The thing that is killing the Blue Jays from a profit margin basis is the dwindling TV numbers. Actually that's a bit of a misnomer as well cuz the TV numbers have generally been good tho not as great as the glory years. Last season the team had the worst TV numbers in 25 yrs which is not good. (this could also be why Rob Faulds was quietly shuffled out of the PBP gig tho it looks like it could be worse for us as Jamie Campbell is the favourite for the job ECH!)

As i've said before Torontonians will support a losing team if said team actually tries to improve itself. While the move today to increase budget is a bit puzzling since all the big names are gone it at least shows that Rogers is willing to make an investment. This payroll increase may very well be tied to the fact that Rogers now owns Skydome. The concessions, programs and merchandising sales will directly go into the coffers of Rogers which SHOULD go into payroll hence the increase.

As i've stated elsewhere the cosmetic changes for Skydome has long been overdue. I just hope that the FieldTurf they install is the kind that really simulates grass instead of the crap in Minnesota or Montreal last year. It's going to be weird not seeing the old Jumbotron but I guess a more modern scoreboard was neccessary.

[Vince]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Jamie Campbell?Oh god!

[Vince]

Re: Blue Jays to announce stadium upgrade and payroll increase

Jamie Campbell?Oh god!