Buffalo Boy's Blog

11,000 and change. Thats it. Where are the fans of this baseball team? If they are all at home waiting for this team to start playing good baseball I have news for you, they have gotten good-great baseball all year long.

I realize it was a Monday night but still, you have the division leaders coming in and a 9 game stretch that will tell the fans of this team just how good they are.

Win or lose we have gotten a 50-60 game sample of what this team is going to do this year. They have a power offense that is leading the league in home runs, RBIs and runs scored and a pitching staff that is leading the league in strikeouts. They have an exciting offense and great pitching and defense and they are challenging the Yankees for the wildcard and tonight just went out and showed that they can in fact play with this Rays club.

What is the city of Toronto waiting for? I blame the Toronto media. The national media here in the US has even caught on, I get to watch the opposing teams broadcasts as well as the Jays home broadcasts on satellite and I have been tuning into the opposing teams more lately and all the Jays get is praise.

The power rankings in the Buffalo News have had the Jays in the top 10 in Major League Baseball all year. What more do you want?

Instead what gets more coverage? Doc Halladay's perfect game, not the fact that the Jays completed a sweep of the Orioles.

I am taking my dad up there for Father's Day in a few weeks, its  a weekend game and from what I can see, the attendance has been pretty slim on the weekends too. I challenge the city of Toronto to start supporting this team in the attendance numbers by the time I get there.

Maybe the media should get off its ass up there too. Im guilty is charged on the Doc Halladay thing, I posted on it and part of me regrets it. I firmly believe that it was addition by subtraction when they traded him. They got a boat load of talent for him and its not even here yet.

Maybe its going to take a move by Alex Anthopoulus to make a statement that the front office thinks this team can do it as soon as this year. Maybe its going to take these next 8 games againts Tampa and the Yankees to prove it. Well, we are 1-0 to start this all important early 9 game show of hands by this club. So far so good.

Whats wrong with Jays fans up there? I realized it was going to be slow to react after everything that has transpired but seriously, its an exciting group, prove to me that this city, one of the largest in North America can and will support this baseball team. Doc isn't coming back its time to recognize the great play on the field of a young and exciting ball club that has a chance to do some damage here.

Who am I kidding though, it won't happen, what's it going to take? Take this for what its worth but the media up there has to start propping this team up. I'll believe that Toronto can come back to the Jays when I see it, Ill be there June 19th, I'll bet there won't be more than 20,000 there, prove me wrong. start making it look like the picture at the top of this post.