Jays' Home Opener a Sellout

SharoneWright · Post #1 » by **SharoneWright** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 4:40 pm

No real other place to put this... but thought it was a good tidbit. Looks like the buzz is already translating north of the border. For those of us who wanted to be there, we're going to have to scrounge a bit. ...

The Blue Jays will open the 2011 season on April 1 at Rogers Centre in front of a sold-out crowd, the team announced on Wednesday.

http://toronto.bluejays.mlb.com/news/ar ... r&c_id=tor

Maybe the other angle worth mentioning is on the business side - if Rogers can get that attendance back climbing, the TBJ's organizational worth is bound to move up from 27th out of 30 teams.

The Toronto Blue Jays are the fourth least valuable franchise in Major League Baseball according to Forbes magazine.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/ ... mlb-report

A better indication is sure to be the attendance on night 2!

Post #2 » by **j127** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:16 pm

Now that I'm out of school and have a job, I'll be attending a lot more Blue Jays games. I usually attend only 1 or 2 per season.

Hendrix · Post #3 » by **Hendrix** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:52 pm

terryoh wrote:Now that I'm out of school and have a job, I'll be attending a lot more Blue Jays games. I usually attend only 1 or 2 per season.

I'll be out of school after next year and plan to move to Toronto. I'll definitly be attending a lot more Jays games as well

RINSE · Post #4 » by **RINSE** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:56 pm

The Jays home opener is usually a sellout, a better indication will be how they do at the gate on Saturday and Sunday.

K1NG · Post #5 » by **K1NG** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:06 pm

RINSE wrote:The Jays home opener is usually a sellout, a better indication will be how they do at the gate on Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday is the Bautista bobblehead giveaway. I'm heading down for that one. It's opening weekend though, Saturday and Sunday should be near sellouts.

CapeCrusader · Post #6 » by **CapeCrusader** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 8:25 pm

K1NG wrote:
RINSE wrote:The Jays home opener is usually a sellout, a better indication will be how they do at the gate on Saturday and Sunday.

Sunday is the Bautista bobblehead giveaway. I'm heading down for that one. It's opening weekend though, Saturday and Sunday should be near sellouts.

Hopefully.

evilRyu · Post #7 » by **evilRyu** » Wed Mar 23, 2011 9:35 pm

it's kind of good (for Rogers) that the game isn't against Bos or Nyy, as those games tend to do well attendance-wise anyway.

Michael Bradley · Post #8 » by **Michael Bradley** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:49 pm

I will be there. First Opening Day for me and first time at Rogers Centre/Skydome since 1995 (?). Been to Yankee Stadium a bunch of times to watch the Jays the past 10 years, but it will be nice to cheer the Jays on and not be the only one doing it.

Post #9 » by **Duffman100** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:05 pm

Damn, should have gone through my plan of picking up 10 tickets and selling them on craigslist.

Post #10 » by **OldNo7** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:14 am

First opening day game for me too. Going with MGD24.

MGD24 · Post #11 » by **MGD24** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 3:18 am

OldNo7 wrote:First opening day game for me too. Going with MGD24.

Wooo...this won't be my first opening day game though...I've gone the last 4 years in a row and a few more times in the 90s.

Gonna be good

Brew666 · Post #12 » by **Brew666** » Fri Mar 25, 2011 5:01 pm

This'll be my first home opener, pretty excited about it...and going to the game on sunday as well...finally the season is here!!

MGD24 · Post #13 » by **MGD24** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 9:21 pm

for those of you also going...

Gates at Rogers Centre, home of the Blue Jays, will open early at 5:00pm as a special night has been planned. Start time is 7:07pm.