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  1. CrackerJack
    Where will you guys stream the game from tonight? I subscribed to Sportsnet+ to get all of October playoff baseball. But don’t want to renew now for November when I’ll just be watching one sporting event the whole month. Cheers. Go Jays!
  2. CrackerJack
    For tomorrow night? I bet the crowd will be in the Teens (less than 20k.)
  3. CrackerJack
    The first 15,000 fans tomorrow night get a Vladdy bobblehead doll . . . they might not even get 15 K actually in attendance.
  4. CrackerJack
    It can be an expensive night out, with jacked up prices for everything (other than loonie dogs.) I’ve had good season tickets for a long time. And my own experience is that my family, friends, co-workers etc. were hounding me all the time for tickets from 2013-2016 in the crappy old dome. Different story last year (with the Jays sometimes getting like 3-5 baserunners a game haha) and so far this Spring . . . the buzz is gone.
  5. CrackerJack
    Yes, I’m sure Ed Rogers likes Mark. I don’t doubt that. And it’s great to have a renovated stadium etc. (with the potential of making lots of money) but fans won’t be coming to an improved shiny stadium in droves for cool giveaways/theme days etc. if the on field product is bad (and boring.) Check the Ticketmaster website … there are tickets galore available this season … (yeah, not the premium seating because those season ticket members had to pay for a couple of seasons in advance.) But if fans are skeptical to get tickets today when the Jays have both Vladdy & Bo and a chance to grab a wild card birth, then how rockin’ will the renovated Rogers Centre be (and how will TV ratings be?) during a rebuild? … (a rebuild or long retool after having zero success in the playoffs, and having never competed for a division title in 10 years? … if this season is a failure as well.)
  6. CrackerJack
    So if this — the last year of the contention window, with a top 5 payroll, and a bottom one-third farm — turns out to be another season of meaningless September baseball, and the Rogers Centre is half empty with s***** TV ratings (in the 2nd half), and Vladdy & Bo are on their way out the door … Rogers is going to extend Shapiro?
  7. CrackerJack
    I don’t see Shapiro ever being “fired” by Rogers, but maybe he decides to “move on” (to bigger and better things e.g. future commissioner?) after 10 years in Toronto. Do you think the decision whether he gets extended or not (or wants an extension) depends on anything the Blue Jays do on or off the field this season?
  8. CrackerJack
    Rogers Centre now has about 39K seats and add another K for those with outfield district tickets and in private suites. They called the home opener a “sellout” at 40,069.
  9. CrackerJack
    I’m a Blue Jays season ticket holder/member lifer.
  10. CrackerJack
    If one really believed that Ohtani was on that flight and signing here was imminent, then is it a stretch to say that most Jays games would’ve been sellouts and having good tickets would’ve been like gold?
  11. CrackerJack
    I think that the Jays will draw under 30K per game (on average) next season. They’re averaging 33K this season … and tickets were bought in advance for a team that was supposed to be in the mix of playoff contention … also had the fleeting Ohtani frenzy … and was the first year with the shiny new 100 level renos. Attendance will drop for a last place team playing boring baseball. (If selling tickets wasn’t a concern, then they wouldn’t be trying to lure season ticket members with an opportunity to attend one of Taylor Swift’s shows at Rogers Centre.)
  12. CrackerJack
    Perfect night for baseball on Monday as well, and the giveaway was a Vladdy bobblehead. My wife and niece attended the game. They didn’t get to the Rogers Centre early to get the bobbleheads, instead we all went for a relaxing dinner downtown and then they just showed up at their empty stadium gate at a normal time. I couldn’t believe that they both still got a bobblehead. (It was the second smallest home crowd of the season so far.)
  13. CrackerJack
    whoever coined the portmanteau “shatkins” was quite creative.
  14. CrackerJack
    There is only about 38,000 seats in the Rogers Centre now, and the home opener is not quite a sell out (at this moment) … you can still get 7 seats in a row in the lower bowl. (And they sold a lot of home opener tickets during the “Ohtani is on a plane to Toronto” frenzy and that’s probably why they didn’t tell one of their Sportsnet mouthpieces to quell the rumours about that.) So how embarrassing will it be to see a nearly half empty shiny splashy stadium for quite a few games this season?
  15. CrackerJack
    I don’t think that Shapiro will be fired, but at some point he’ll be moving on … and with ten years in the books and the renovations complete and with Bo & Vladdy perhaps gone, then maybe he moves into the commissioner’s office (or something) to be groomed to take over for Manfred haha
  16. CrackerJack
    interestingly, if Shapiro doesn’t continue as president after 2025, then he will have taken the helm with peak excitement in the team with the band wagon overflowing, and could be departing (quite possibly) with just the hardcore baseball fans still giving a s***.
  17. CrackerJack
    Is there any scenario where Shapiro’s signature project (the stadium renovations) are disappointing revenue wise over the next few years? (Long term i’m sure it’ll more than pay off.) Or is it a slam dunk revenue generator right away? They’ve jacked up ticket prices everywhere and so how low would attendance have to drop for there to be a negative impact? I wouldn’t be surprised if average game attendance drops about 9,000 this season. And then, if they go into a rebuild/retool phase, the next few years also could have many empty (expensive) seats.
  18. CrackerJack
    30 days out
  19. CrackerJack
    I might be selling a pair of Rogers Centre seats, so if you think they’d be a cool addition to your man cave then message me. Cheers
  20. CrackerJack
    would’ve said low 80s … but with fewer games against divisional opponents now … i’ll bump it up to mid 80s.
  21. CrackerJack
    I think that the division series should be best of 7 (rather than a best of 5.)
  22. CrackerJack
    We had a draft on the weekend before the season started. There weren't lineup changes on a daily basis. The only way to change players on your team were: (1) to make a trade; (2) to claim an undrafted player (before somebody else does) and subsequently drop a guy to make room for him; and (3) we each had 5 players that we drafted in reserve who you could "call up" to replace somebody who was either on a long DL stint or who was having a s***** season. All player moves were made official by phoning the "commissioner" haha. And each player transaction cost some money which was added to the pot for the winner. I had both Mattingly and George Brett in '85 and they finished 1-2 for AL MVP. Good times. Edit: actually, it wasn't a draft; it was an auction.
  23. CrackerJack
    I dig it. The Hit Man helped me win my rotisserie league in 1985.
  24. CrackerJack
    Talking about having a guy on the bench primarily as a pinch runner ... makes me think of Tom Lawless in 1989 who helped the Jays clinch the division against Baltimore with a big stolen base in extra innings during the final weekend vs. the O's.
  25. CrackerJack
    For those of you who use mlb66.ir to stream games, is it still working for you? It was working great for me up until a couple of weeks ago, but now, no.
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