Comments on: The media’s raging boner for Toronto sports teams

By: Dorian Geiger

Dorian Geiger — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 02:44:22 +0000

I kept my quiet all season as the majority of you proceeded to lampoon my synopsis of the terrible state of Toronto pro sports teams. How did the Raps do again? Playoff-less. Just saying. Here's an article I just saw of what proved my point in my my story. Oh my god, will Chris Bosh stay in Tdot? The only news ever coming out of Raptors-ville at the conclusion of every season for the past 4 or 5 years. javascript:%20postComment(0); http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Will+Bosh+s...

By: KP

KP — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:09:21 +0000

Your point is well taken. Toronto is the official “City of Losers” these days. However, if you’re going to expound on this point I would recommend some fact-checking, or at least some general reading on the Great Depression. (This just in: The Blue Jays have had a winning record in 3 of the past 4 seasons.)

I get all the angst about being awash in a sea of sports coverage from Toronto. Heck, I live barely an hour from the city and I wish my local Junior A team would get more coverage! Do I bitch about it? Nope. It’s reality.

I would love to hear all about the outcome of the next Blades – Raiders game but I won’t. Come to think of it, I won’t even hear about the Bulls – Petes game and it will be played less than two hours from the headquarters of all three of the major sports networks.

They only have so much time on the air and they like to make money. In order to make as much money as possible they’re going to show what more people will watch so they get more money from their advertisers. Cold hard truth.

By: Scroeten

Scroeten — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:13:30 +0000

I understand your frustration. Even as a Leafs fan, it’s ridiculous to see articles dedicated to Joey Macdonald’s goalie mask. But face it, the only thing lazier than writing trivial articles about Toronto sports teams is writing bitchy pieces about those same articles.

I just want to know what the sports media is supposed to cover, in your opinion. There are four big sports leagues in North America, and Toronto is the sole Canadian rep for two of them. Are TSN or The Score supposed to ignore a Leafs trade (or ignore a GM getting fired? come on, even Western CFL firings get press) happening down the street, in favour of some human interest story about shinny in Regina? Why not write the stories you think the masses should care about and stand by them, rather than playing to the “TO blows” peanut gallery with another article about perceived media oppression?

PS It could be deliberate, as the whole article is about not caring, but it’s spelled Ricciardi.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:34:13 +0000

Junk article…derides coverage of TO sports teams then gives a precis of their sports history. The writing is pretty waek, too. The use of “portrayed” and “poster child” make no sense…not a quibble in conversation, but this is supposed to be writing…

PS I like baseball. I like thinking about pitches and plays and strategies, and this does not depend on a winning team…

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:26:05 +0000

i Don’t get it so the only news worthy event worth reporting is winning a championship? This is a poorly written piece.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:29:51 +0000

I agree with Jay. Toronto has the biggest sports market in Canada. If you don’t like what you see on tv, change the channel.I always feel that there is always a jealousy for Toronto and it’s team and it needs to stop.

By: to blows

to blows — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:36:21 +0000

TO sucks and always will. Someone should drop a bomb on hogtown and be done with it.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:52:57 +0000

This is such a joke. When will the rest of Canada wake up and realize that no matter how much they bitch and complain, T.O. is the only thing even close to a big city in Canada. It makes a lot of sense for media to stop covering Toronto teams b/c they lose. That’s actually the most ridiculous thing ever. They are horrible teams right now, but that’s part of sports. You just can’t ignore it. and your piece lost credibility when you said the raptors won’t get anything close to a playoff birth. You’re kidding right. They will be 4th to 6th in the East.

By: AM Currie

AM Currie — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:24:45 +0000

One acronym and one name: MLSE & Rogers. MLSE is making money hand over fist so they have no motive ($) to perform better than average. Rogers is focused on bringing the Bills (talk about your winners) to Toronto so it is actually to their advantage to have the Jays underperform. Can you imagine trying to sell corporate boxes for a new Toronto NFL stadium when the CEOs are already spending big bucks to take clients to see a hot Jays team (like in the early 90s)?

By: B Franks

B Franks — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:27:36 +0000

AMEN.

By: gregg aiken

gregg aiken — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:56:53 +0000

That is funny, great title, good copy, but like the people who bitch about sex and violence on TV and radio, don’t watch, don’t read, change the station and the leafs are out of your life baby

By: rick p

rick p — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:31:17 +0000

you dont wanna hear it dont listen to it or read it lol. quite frankly theres thousands of leaf fans that do wanna hear and read about the leafs no matter how bad they are