Another guest contribution from J. Dilkas. For the record, the opinions and ideas expressed are solely (and probably, in the entire universe, only) his own. When you go down to the SkyDome now to watch a Jays game, and don’t get me started on calling it the Rogers Centre, it’s not the same as it was. I remember back when Alomar and Carter and White gave us the first good team we’d ever had, there were crowds galore and it was easy to enjoy the best of baseball’s grand old traditions: the stadium wave. You couldn’t do it back at Exhibition Stadium because there was that huge gap in right field where there weren’t any seats. That’s kind of the problem now. When the Jays played to a full house, it was easier for people to keep the wave going and have it stay together. Now with more empty seats, it falls apart too easily. The 500 level slows down and the 100 level speeds up and the black seats out in center field where no one wants to sit just mess everything up. As a result, I don’t think our guys get all the support they can from us. It’s like a vicious cycle. We can’t do a wave, so they win less, which means fewer people come out to games, which makes doing a wave harder. Repeat until we’re worse than Tampa. I’m sure the waves they do at places with better teams, like Boston or the Yankees, are tight and organized. What I think we should have is an app for your phone that can co-ordinate things. Everybody downloads it. You type in your section and seat and when a wave starts it tells you when to stand up and keeps all the levels together. You could see something like the sweeper arm on a radar display you see in the movies moving around a map of the stadium. You could even watch waves happen when you’re not even there. Maybe you can take part if you’re watching on TV. I’m not saying it would make a bigger difference than having a halfway decent bullpen, but it definitely couldn’t hurt and at the bare minimum we’ll have the best waves in either league, which is a start. __ Ideas Free to a Good Home we’re too lazy to develop ourselves.
