She also said:
Councillor Karen Stintz, who attends many Argonauts games as well as the past two Grey Cups and the upcoming one in Regina, said it would be more economical and her preference to make going to the Rogers Centre a better experience, instead of building something new.
“I would find it interesting to work on how we fill the existing stadium,” Stintz said. “My preference. Would be to get people interested in football again in Toronto (at the current home). The spirit in Saskatchewan, Winnipeg and even B.C. is so amazing, it would be great to get that kind of spirit in Toronto.”
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/07/26...rgos-play-next
So she's obviously out to lunch as she didn't even seem to be aware that the Rogers Centre is putting in grass and kicking out the Argonauts.
Kind of an unfair posting on your part. The Article which you quoted her on was from July, and the Argos announce in September that they were entering their final lease with Skydome. Without being a part of the negotiations, how would she have known what the plans for the future of the dome were? Seeing as how they are both privately run, it cetainly isn't anything that should have been on the agenda of city council.
It's us vs the rest of the country
It's been common knowledge for years that the Blue Jays are going to put in real grass and kick out the Argonauts:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?...s_mlb&c_id=mlb
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb...re-grass-turf/
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/cfl-55...232200351.html
Last edited by Neely2005; 11-06-2013 at 03:04 PM.
Wasn't Braley himself on record over the last year saying he'd still like to make the Skydome work? I'm sure I can remember a radio interview or something. Sure it's long been unlikely that they would stay (and now appears impossible) but advocating for the Dome hardly makes someone out to lunch.
Considering that the Blue Jays have been talking about going to grass for years I would be quite surprised if Braley has said anything of the sort recently.
It does when it's been common knowledge for years that the Blue Jays are going to kick the Argonauts out.
It is impossible for the Argonauts to stay at Rogers Centre once the grass goes in because they can't reconfigure the Stands without destroying the grass.
Last edited by Neely2005; 11-06-2013 at 04:07 PM.
It's us vs the rest of the country
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