AA on Tim&Sid

[GeorgiaPeach]

Build a new stafium first.

 

It isn't feasible, but I'd love to see a stadium put back on the island.

[o2cui2i]

It isn't feasible, but I'd love to see a stadium put back on the island.

 

The island isn't going to happen. pretty much impossible to get 40,00 people back and forth for a game. I'm pretty sure the old stadium was pretty small. 17,000 max... in the second build of the stadium. if they build a stadium for 40k+ it would be difficult to figure out how to get people in and out for a game. No trains, subways, buses, parking.... trying to Ferry over 40,000 people plus staff, police and all the sidewalk buskers. it would be a nightmare that would make going to the RC seem like rolling out of bed.

[SaskJaysFan_2]

Alomar, Stieb, Halladay, Delgado, possibly Key

 

I'll add Tom Henke and Tony Fernandez...but if you don't think they make the cut I totally understand. Just two favourites of mine.

[SaskJaysFan_2]

Ya new stadium first. I think Joe Carter leaping in the air would be an iconic statue.

 

While not entirely PC, Alomar's mockery of the tomahawk chop would be fantastic

[immature]

Building statutes for anyone especially athletes is just dumb. Now that we know God doesn't exist, the whole idea of paying reverence to statues should be obsolete.

[goeb]

Building statutes for anyone especially athletes is just dumb. Now that we know God doesn't exist, the whole idea of paying reverence to statues should be obsolete.

 

Yikes what a killjoy ...the statue would be built just to encapsulate fond memories not to immortalize these guys as some deity.

[GeorgiaPeach]

While not entirely PC, Alomar's mockery of the tomahawk chop would be fantastic

 

I'd rather have Alomar either with the double arms up after taking Eckersley deep, or having him in a full out dive making a catch.

[GeorgiaPeach]

Building statutes for anyone especially athletes is just dumb. Now that we know God doesn't exist, the whole idea of paying reverence to statues should be obsolete.

 

I never looked up to athletes as role models. I appreciated their talents and emulated their swings or how they pitched, but my parents were always my role models.

[jays4life19]

Darryl Strawberry was my role model growing up as a kid.

[Boxcar]

That'd be cool, great idea.

 

"Who are those guys? Will doing this make us more money than it costs?"

 

- Rogers board of directors

[GeorgiaPeach]

That'd be cool, great idea.

 

The Jays could put a statue of you in the RC bleachers and a hidden speaker with chants of "Yankees suck farts" being played.

[Dick_Pole]

Ya new stadium first. I think Joe Carter leaping in the air would be an iconic statue.

 

A new stadium is not happening for at least 25 years imo. The government has to pay off the Dome first. I can see a situation where the Rogers Centre gets torn down in favour of condos and the baseball park is built somewhere else. That would be a great business case for Rogers. No idea where the team would go to. Lots of usable land within city/GTA limits, but none near the downtown core that I can think of. Markham or Mississauga Blue Jays doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

As for Joe Carter, I'd love a statue of him struggling to catch a routine fly ball in the stadium's "bright lights". Perhaps he is crouching and squinting with the glove just over his head trying to block the lights, and the ball is flying about a foot over his glove.

[immature]

I never looked up to athletes as role models. I appreciated their talents and emulated their swings or how they pitched, but my parents were always my role models.

 

I just think statues are going too far. Banners, documentaries, retired jerseys #s or having players coming back and throwing out the first pitch I think are all good ideas and are sufficient enough to show appreciation for a player. If anything, keep the statues for guys like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mandela not a bunch of athletes who for the most part have contributed nothing to society except provide entertainment.

Edited October 6, 2014 by immature

[GeorgiaPeach]

I just think statues are going too far. Banners, documentaries, retired jerseys #s or having players coming back and throwing out the first pitch I think are all good ideas and are sufficient enough to show appreciation for a player. If anything, keep the statues for guys like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Mandela not a bunch of athletes who for the most part have contributed nothing to society except provide entertainment.

 

Walk of Fame in Hollywood???

[immature]

Isn't that just a bunch of stars on the ground. But if not then its still dumb IMO. Most movie stars and singers are in the same group of athletes in terms of contribution.

[GeorgiaPeach]

The statues would be at the venue and only of great players who played and brought life and memories to that neighbourhood, burrough, City, Province or State or Country.

[GeorgiaPeach]

And as important as Ghandi & Mandela are to the World, they don't interest me.

 

I'd rather drive some routes and spots where Bonnie & Clyde took, visit Deeley Plaza again, or siginifcant WWII, Civil War battlegrounds.

[jayswin11]

And as important as Ghandi & Mandela are to the World, they don't interest me.

 

I'd rather drive some routes and spots where Bonnie & Clyde took, visit Deeley Plaza again, or siginifcant WWII, Civil War battlegrounds.

 

Neither of them imparted as much wisdom as Yogi Berra.

[GeorgiaPeach]

Neither of them imparted as much wisdom as Yogi Berra.

 

One of the many Yankees more significant than Jeter.

[GeorgiaPeach]

I finalized our deal in the FC.

 

I confirmed.

[GeorgiaPeach]

The only statue can be Tony Fernandez in the middle of his sidewinding delivery to 1B or GTFO.

 

Or applying Clearasil

[immature]

And as important as Ghandi & Mandela are to the World, they don't interest me.

 

I'd rather drive some routes and spots where Bonnie & Clyde took, visit Deeley Plaza again, or siginifcant WWII, Civil War battlegrounds.

 

Fair enough. Depends on what is interesting / important to the person. But when there are young impressionable kids who start to emulate ppl like Marilyn Monroe and statues and the like help immortalize her , then we got a problem.

[jaysfan2014]

A new stadium is not happening for at least 25 years imo. The government has to pay off the Dome first. I can see a situation where the Rogers Centre gets torn down in favour of condos and the baseball park is built somewhere else. That would be a great business case for Rogers. No idea where the team would go to. Lots of usable land within city/GTA limits, but none near the downtown core that I can think of. Markham or Mississauga Blue Jays doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

As for Joe Carter, I'd love a statue of him struggling to catch a routine fly ball in the stadium's "bright lights". Perhaps he is crouching and squinting with the glove just over his head trying to block the lights, and the ball is flying about a foot over his glove.

 

Dome's already paid off. At this time, there is no pressure for Rogers to build a new stadium for the Blue Jays, especially considering the Rogers Centre has been renovated in recent years, and is expected to get grass in 2018. Besides, MLB is more concerned about the situations in Oakland and Tampa Bay right now, who need new stadiums worse than Toronto.

 

The other problem is that any new stadium for Toronto would require a roof. Open-air baseball without a retractable roof is a no-go in Toronto, especially considering the mess with Exhibition Stadium, plus weather conditions in April and September.

[RealAccountant]

lol Dickpole