Torontonians will pay good money to watch bad teams that drive them wild with rage. But will they do the same thing to watch okay teams that leave them feeling nothing in particular?
When the Rogers Centre was renovated during the off-season, the idea was to make it less like a rallying point in case of disaster and more like an enormous tiki bar.
The obsessives are reliable customers at the beginning and, if things are going well, the end of the season. The scenesters help carry the club through the dog days. If the team is really humming, the two streams meet in one great dynamically priced river at the playoffs.On Tuesday night, the Rogers Centre wasn’t empty, but it also wasn’t full. The announced crowd was 40,454 – a few hundred short of a sellout.
We’re not talking about June. We’re talking about September. We’re talking about right in the thick of it. Now we’re back up to 2023 – it’s not the best team in a long time, but it’s a good team. On a given night over the past couple of weeks, you could be there for the moment the season either takes flight or blows up on the launch pad.
But if these Jays, with their competent roster, their high hopes and their semi-state-of-the-art stadium, can’t convince people to fork over a day’s wage on a night out, then what’s going on?For a chunk of the beginning of this century, all Toronto teams were terrible and all at once. It became one of the civic facts everyone here understands – traffic is terrible, there is not one world-class bar within city limits and none of the big three teams has a scintilla of quality.
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