Future looks a lot less bright for the Toronto Blue Jays

Is it not ironic that a non-baseball person would think that baseball is just a money-making machine, as did old Harold Ballard back in the 1960s?

Toronto fans deserve better.

Back in the 1960s, the Maple Leafs were winning Stanley Cups. Then came Harrold Ballard, who, from his bunker at the Maple Leaf Gardens, thought he knew better and wanted to make more money. The Leafs’ last cup was in 1967.

Now here comes Ed Rogers, who knows how to make money, but nothing about baseball, and who wants to change the character of the Blue Jays.

Toronto fans need to wake up and send Rogers a statement. It can happen again to the Blue Jays as it did to the Leafs, and they could disappear from respectability for years to come.

Why Rogers wants more control through his puppet Shapiro, the new president, is beyond all understanding.

Proof that Rogers knows nothing of sports come to his giving $50 million to a coach. Coaches do not score goals; good hockey players do. Invest in good hockey players.

How the Rogers group will destroy the Blue Jays is yet to be seen, and Toronto fans, sad but true, will continue to support mediocrity.

Paul Sauvé
Sudbury