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“Yeah, there’s no real following here,” Rios told the Sun-Times during the White Sox four-day visit to Toronto that wrapped up Thursday. “There’s a small group of diehards, but it’s hockey, hockey, hockey. It’s gotten sad here. They just don’t really care.”
supersub15 wrote:link“Yeah, there’s no real following here,” Rios told the Sun-Times during the White Sox four-day visit to Toronto that wrapped up Thursday. “There’s a small group of diehards, but it’s hockey, hockey, hockey. It’s gotten sad here. They just don’t really care.”
Is the media killing other sports in this country with their fixation on hockey?
dillio wrote:Rios is just bitter that he got booed all 4 games. He was literally crying when they released him last year.
supersub15 wrote:link“Yeah, there’s no real following here,” Rios told the Sun-Times during the White Sox four-day visit to Toronto that wrapped up Thursday. “There’s a small group of diehards, but it’s hockey, hockey, hockey. It’s gotten sad here. They just don’t really care.”
Is the media killing other sports in this country with their fixation on hockey?
inthecolours wrote:dillio wrote:Rios is just bitter that he got booed all 4 games. He was literally crying when they released him last year.
well there's that, and you know, record low attendance numbers...
dillio wrote:inthecolours wrote:dillio wrote:Rios is just bitter that he got booed all 4 games. He was literally crying when they released him last year.
well there's that, and you know, record low attendance numbers...
They traded away Halladay for prospects and essentially told their fans that they have no plans to compete. Plus it's still early in the season, attendance normally picks up once summer starts.
MikeM wrote:I think he's right.
And the biggest reason is Toronto's high Immigration rate. Most European, Asian, and Indian
communities are not interested in baseball.
MikeM wrote:I think he's right. Baseball in general is dead in Toronto but if the team wins the fans will come. Toronto fans will support a winner regardless of the sport but they won't go to a mediocre team's baseball game.
In May 2004 while traveling with the White Sox on a road trip to Toronto, Cowley made disparaging remarks about the city of Toronto in a radio interview, calling it “nothing but a city in a third-world country.” Subsequently during the series in Toronto, Cowley refused to stand for the Canadian national anthem prior to a game. Toronto Blue Jays president Paul Godfrey described Cowley as having “bad manners” and had letters of complaint sent to both Cowley and his publisher over the incident.
Cowley gained notoriety nationally when he admitted on Tuesday Nov. 21, 2006 on the Mike and the Mad Dog show, which is heard on WFAN New York, to be the only writer to vote Derek Jeter in sixth place on the American League MVP ballot. However, if Cowley had placed Jeter first on the ballot, Justin Morneau still would have won.
That was the second such incident for Cowley; after omitting Blue Jays players Carlos Delgado and Vernon Wells, two top-ten overall finishers, from his 2003 AL MVP ballot, the Chicago chapter suspended him from voting the next year.[/quote]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Cowley
# Arrived in Cleveland ... USA, USA, USA ... Four days in Toronto is like three weeks in the States. about 4 hours ago via txt
Just got through customs ... Felt like Midnight Express. "Oh Bobby!"
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Profanity wrote:This is why I question a Canadian team in our league. it's a govt conspiracy trina to sell all our milk to Russia. They let the raptors participate to not let canadians demand crossing taxes. it will backfire one day.