Blue Jays can't play play in Toronto - Buffalo it is

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Fair enough but you seem to be missing the issue the government here has isn't with sports happening at all clearly as the NHL has been approved to play in two cities here. They had a problem with multiple trips back and forth over the border with no bubble established to baseballs return. Specifically with Miami and Tampa making trips here. It would be more like me not letting your kid play at my house but the neighbors are cool with it. If your point is essentially just wanting our government to come out and state that they disagree with the States returning to play well I just think it is a empty statement that doesn't change or mean anything at all.

That's true, though I respect Trudeau and take him at face value most of the time.

The whole subject is touchy. My county is on California's watchlist, meaning life is basically suspended until the numbers improve. I haven't gone out on an actual outing with my family since late Feb. I'm probably hypersensitive to any perceived slight right now.

 

[TonySoprano]

Anyone else think the Jays players are being babies about this? Just play in Buffalo, just have to suck it up for 30 home games.

There is more to the clubhouse than comfy seats and wide stalls.

There are subpar trainers room, video room and batting cage.

 

[Vamos Rafa]

Turner Field? Globe Life Park?

 

[SSF]

Turner Field is a football stadium only now; so it is out.

 

[Cas]

Turner Field? Globe Life Park?

Neither are options. Turner Field will never be a baseball option again, Globe Life Field has already been retrofitted for football and cannot currently support baseball without extensive demodification.

Home to left-center at Globe Life Park is now around 250 feet.

However, I would pay to see balls hit into that weird gap between the new stands and the old seats along the left-field line - triples attempts would be really fun because both baserunner and outfielder would have no idea what's going on.

 

[SSF]

Preview: Georgia State Stadium - Football Stadium Digest

this is what Turner Field looks like now, so no, it wont ever host a baseball game

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

A handful of conflicts that would need to be sorted out: 7/29-30 vs. WSH (easy solution for this one would be to reschedule the game on the 29th as part of a doubleheader on the 30th), 9/7-9 vs. NYY, 9/21-24 vs. NYY

 

[Del Preston]

PNC Park is gorgeous.

Blue Jays in Pittsburgh
Penguins in Toronto

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

How many lockerrooms are there? Will they have to share any facilities? Not sure this is a great idea at first glance.

 

[Quid Pro Clowe]

Double

 

[PG Canuck]

PNC Park is gorgeous.

Blue Jays in Pittsburgh
Penguins in Toronto

Good deal for Toronto.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

A handful of conflicts that would need to be sorted out: 7/29-30 vs. WSH (easy solution for this one would be to reschedule the game on the 29th as part of a doubleheader on the 30th), 9/7-9 vs. NYY, 9/21-24 vs. NYY

It's Nightengale though. It does leave 1 of those NYY series unaccounted for...

 

[IU Hawks fan]

How many lockerrooms are there? Will they have to share any facilities? Not sure this is a great idea at first glance.

The reason Pittsburgh and Baltimore were being considered is that both have hotels steps from the park that could be become their home base and eliminate the need to create an auxiliary clubhouse in the ballpark.

 

[Big McLargehuge]

Not loving the increased risk this brings to Pittsburgh, I find MLB's handling of the entire covid situation to be exactly in line with the way I view MLB in general - incompetent and unable to get out of its own way - but...eh. The kid who grew up playing Little League for the Blue Jays in suburban Pittsburgh (I also played for the Expos, eh) and has always kept that soft spot for the Jays means there will actually be a team playing in PNC Park this year that I don't actively despise, so...yay?

Either way I'm all here for some of those mash-ups.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

I like the Steelers one. This is so ugly.

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

Forget Pittsburgh. That changed quickly.

 

[Cas]

The Toronto Spiders of Pittsburgh and Anaheim.

 

[John Price]

Where are they gonna play!!?

 

[MMC]

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

If they insist on playing in an MLB park, either Baltimore/DC or NYC still make the most sense to me.

 

[Swervin81]

This whole saga really doesn't look great on management. I get that this is a changing situation, but with the way that Canada has taken COVID seriously, they should've known it was extremely likely we wouldn't be able to play here and should've gotten the wheels moving on contingency plans sooner. This feels super like they got caught completely off guard and now that they're scrambling. And now we're scrambling again after PA denied us.

It was mentioned that Buffalo's big problem is the lack of replay infrastructure and lighting. Upgrades were said to take a week... probably should've done those already just to have a backup plan.

 

[joestevens29]

This whole saga really doesn't look great on management. I get that this is a changing situation, but with the way that Canada has taken COVID seriously, they should've known it was extremely likely we wouldn't be able to play here and should've gotten the wheels moving on contingency plans sooner. This feels super like they got caught completely off guard and now that they're scrambling. And now we're scrambling again after PA denied us.

It was mentioned that Buffalo's big problem is the lack of replay infrastructure and lighting. Upgrades were said to take a week... probably should've done those already just to have a backup plan.

Feels like they just don't care and thought they would get their way.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Feels like they just don't care and thought they would get their way.

Yeah, I think they thought being a professional sports team at a time when many are craving sports, all levels of government would have bent the rules and rubberstamped it with no issues whatsoever. Even so much so visiting teams would have been able to bypass the 14-day quarantine.

 

[Khelandros]

Just realized that MLB is going ahead with a traveling circus. If any league is going to shutdown due to Covid, MLB will be it.