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Should Be Called the Billy Koch Blown Saves Centre

2005_02_02skydome.gifBlue Jay ownership – also known as Rogers Media – have announced plans for a revamping of the once astonishing Skydome. The building, purchased last fall, will undergo renovations starting with an immediate change of name to the Rogers Centre. A change hoped to separate the team from the unpopular stigma attached to the dogged ballpark.
The structural changes accompanying the new name, will include a transplant of the more-natural field-turf for the old astro-turf, a new jumbotron, and a state-of-the-art wrap-around scoreboard.
Possibly the most important announcement however, is that payroll allowances are planned to be increased in upcoming years. This is important because a renovated ballpark will fail to make the game more enjoyable if the team’s record is 62-100.
No word yet on speeding up that “state-of-the-art” retractable roof.
Image: Many Ayromlou

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  • http://work4bandwidth.blogspot.com mike w

    Change the name of the Skydome? That’s crap. Rogers Centre? That’s boring. Rogers Dome, perhaps. Rogers Field? Sure. But the Skydome was and is a one of. Sure they have the bucks. I say Rogers Skydome if it must change at all. The Jays can still suck or succeed no matter what the name is on the building. And they will do both.
    Changing the name won’t change the fact, no matter how much Ted and co. want, that it will always be the Skydome to millions of current Torontonians and ex-pats like me.

  • David

    If renaming the Skydome ‘Rogers Centre’ is the price of increasing payroll by 20 mill a year then that’s fine by me. I’d say since the strike in ’94 the Dome has lost much of its luster and any move to disassociate from the sterile, uneventful atmosphere of recent years is a welcome change.

  • Billy

    Dudes. Who cares? The Blue Jays will never do well as long as Stephen Harper exists. Long live Fidel Castro!