New Ball Park?

Huskies1947 · Post #1 » by **Huskies1947** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:45 pm

Honestly, I hate the Rogers centre and I know Ted Rogers got a nice bargain on it etc, but when do you think it will take before they will need to replace that eye sore?

Would love it if they built something like the park that was supposed to be built in Montreal...

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asif9t9 · Post #2 » by **asif9t9** » Fri May 25, 2007 1:54 am

The Skydome was supposed to have costed taxpayers $250M, but it ballooned to closer to $500M. That doesn't help.

Plus it would make the Skydome useless and it might as well be torn down....wasted money.

And I think it's been proven that we need a dome or retractable roof stadium.

No new stadium until somehow attendance picks up and the place gets packed. And that's for sure not happening.

Huskies1947 · Post #3 » by **Huskies1947** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:33 pm

asif9t9 wrote:The Skydome was supposed to have costed taxpayers $250M, but it ballooned to closer to $500M. That doesn't help.

Plus it would make the Skydome useless and it might as well be torn down....wasted money.

And I think it's been proven that we need a dome or retractable roof stadium.

No new stadium until somehow attendance picks up and the place gets packed. And that's for sure not happening.

The Dome is going to deteriorate eventually when do you think it will happen? Also, the Dome would be packed again when the Jays start winning... when that will happen? I dunno...

Post #4 » by **OldNo7** » Fri May 25, 2007 8:12 pm

It is not financially feasible to build a new stadium, especially after they spent millions in their "upgrades" a couple of offseasons ago.

Mak · Post #5 » by **Mak** » Sat May 26, 2007 5:25 am

whosthebosh? wrote:It is not financially feasible to build a new stadium, especially after they spent millions in their "upgrades" a couple of offseasons ago.

yup, it's not going to happen anytime soon. The only thing that could speed the process up is winning. As it stands now i doubt we'll see a new ballpark for another 15-20 years. If we had a good team that was making money, then maybe it would happen a lot faster.

Banger_bro · Post #6 » by **Banger_bro** » Sun May 27, 2007 12:03 am

It opened when, '89? Making it almost 20 years old...At least 20 more years before they build a new one...maybe longer....

Unless it starts falling apart the The Big "Oh"

evilRyu · Post #7 » by **evilRyu** » Sun May 27, 2007 10:34 pm

I also don't like the RC, and one of the main reasons is that they're not using grass.. It pains me that visiting teams at times need to sit there older star players, due to the surface..

mr.garbage · Post #8 » by **mr.garbage** » Sun May 27, 2007 11:31 pm

We need a big blue jay in center field

Banger_bro · Post #9 » by **Banger_bro** » Mon May 28, 2007 3:17 pm

evilRyu wrote:I also don't like the RC, and one of the main reasons is that they're not using grass.. It pains me that visiting teams at times need to sit there older star players, due to the surface..

They changed the surface two years ago to be more like grass. I think they virtually elimated the compliants about the surface.

heemer · Post #10 » by **heemer** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:23 pm

Its not thaaat bad, its just not super nice. We need to have a dome and the concourse level is nice and the field surface sweet. I think the biggest problem is that there are too many seats. Most of the new stadiums are being built with far less seating. I think the jays will move to get rid of a couple thousand seats maybe by replacing them with bigger ones, or adding more luxury boxes and wine bars etc.

Triple M · Post #11 » by **Triple M** » Thu May 31, 2007 8:56 am

it is probably 20 years away i wonder however where would they plan on building the new stadium.

straightguji · Post #12 » by **straightguji** » Fri Jun 1, 2007 10:43 pm

My only beef with it is that even with 30,000+ people showing up for a game it still looks very empty.

They need to get rid of some seats.

mr.garbage · Post #13 » by **mr.garbage** » Sat Jun 2, 2007 3:57 pm

We need the field more attracting. Yea I agree with the previous post we need to cut down seats it makes us seem like we have bad attendance yet we do have a good attendance rate.

evilRyu · Post #14 » by **evilRyu** » Sat Jun 2, 2007 7:55 pm

To me, it just doesn't have the "baseball atmosphere".. I guess Boston and NY would be the exterme best case scenarios, whenever I watch a game on TV, it just doesn't have the "feel".. for example, the lights make it too bright, making the game seem way "indoors", even though it technically is indoors with the dome closed..

heemer · Post #15 » by **heemer** » Mon Jun 4, 2007 9:22 pm

mr.garbage wrote:We need the field more attracting. Yea I agree with the previous post we need to cut down seats it makes us seem like we have bad attendance yet we do have a good attendance rate.

And thats actually a huge factor. A sell out of 35,000 people would be a much much better atmosphere than even 40,000 ppl with a good 15,000 empty seats. That game last year vs. the Yankees when there was 52,000+ fans was incredible and i barely remember the actual game

whiterasta80 · Post #16 » by **whiterasta80** » Tue Jun 5, 2007 3:43 am

Cutting seats out would also help with the comfort level of the fans. Honestly... those 500 level seats are worse than many AAA parks. I'm only 6'4 210 and I struggle to fit in the seats.

uniballer · Post #17 » by **uniballer** » Wed Jun 6, 2007 2:31 am

mr.garbage wrote:We need a big blue jay in center field

They have that in MLB 2k7 for the 360 and it looks pimpin... i wish they would do it in real life

wicked_crossova · Post #18 » by **wicked_crossova** » Sun Jul 1, 2007 1:49 pm

Why dont they just take out the 500 level? Honestly, who the f*ck sits way up there?

beater97 · Post #19 » by **beater97** » Mon Jul 2, 2007 1:06 am

mr.garbage wrote:We need a big blue jay in center field

I second that! We also need to go back to early 90's uniforms.

beater97 · Post #20 » by **beater97** » Tue Jul 3, 2007 9:09 pm

wicked_crossova wrote:Why dont they just take out the 500 level? Honestly, who the f*ck sits way up there?

I sometimes do, its a good inexpensive way to watch a ball game.