Letters to the Editor, May 11, 2024
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JAYS’ SLUMP
As Steve Simmons said, heads should roll for what the current Blue Jays are producing (May 5). The current owners, Rogers Communications, are not baseball people, their only concern is their bottom line. Spending $400 million on stadium renovations and increasing ticket prices are only ploys to increase revenues. Jays president Mark Shapiro and, in his ninth season as Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins, have done nothing to bolster the club to a championship caliber. Prior to coming to Toronto, their tenure at Cleveland was a bust. Atkins’ latest attempts to add high-profile players to the team are a joke, you need more than AAA no-names. The fans deserve more than just a fancy, dressed-up ball park. It shouldn’t take a GM close to ten years to create a winner, if he has the baseball smarts necessary. Heads should roll.
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Gary Megaffin
Kitchener
(Something has to change. At some point someone needs to come to the realization what they are doing now isn’t working)
FANS HAVE ANXIETY TOO
Re “We stink” (Toronto Sun, May 5): The frontpage headline extols the angst felt by the vast majority of Toronto sports fans. Why do our teams, with highly skilled, well-compensated players, continue to underperform? I have been advised by my cardiologist and banker that I can no longer support our established professional teams due to health and wealth concerns. We have the highest average ticket prices in all of the leagues and teams that constantly fall short of expectations and tear the hearts out of us. As a result, I am shifting my allegiance totally to Toronto’s PWHL team. If they let me down, I will have no choice but to devote my energy to becoming a better chess player.
Wayne D. Crawford
Markham
(That’s a laudable goal. But yes, why can’t there be a winning team here?)
THE BELOVED REX MURPHY
The most admired writer of our time just passed away. Millions of Canadians who truly love this country will miss his columns. Rest in peace, Rex Murphy. You were loved and admired by many.
George Dohnal
Oakville
(He was a brilliant writer with an ability to give consistently give the pulse of the nation. They don’t make them like Rex anymore and he will be missed)
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