I went to Toronto yesterday to see the Doc. I had the uneasy feeling that this masterful performance by Roy Halladay was the last one with the Jays. He even waved at the excited crowd at the end of the game.
How couldn’t the Toronto crowd be more excited after seeing Halladay retiring a ton of Red Sox in a row and allowing only one run. Only Pedroia and Youkilis seemed to be at his level yesterday, but they just couldn’t keep up with him after the 4th inning.
Well, I think it’s so long to Halladay now in Toronto. It’ s sad, but he really deserves a more competitve organization, not a penny-pincher-we’re-happy-just-with-having-a-team front office like Toronto’s. An organization that still only believes that fans can live only on memories of two back to back World Series 16 years ago. I saw a franchise getting moved because of ineffective ownership and sustained fan alienation here in Montreal. The Blue Jays can still expect some fan support for a number of years before Rogers Centre becomes the haunted house Montreal’s Olympic Stadium was in the last 5 years of the Expos run, but they are truly walking in that direction. Did I mention that there were probably more Red Sox fans than Blue Jays fans at the park yesterday?
So, it still not confirmed, but I feel that the Halladay era in Toronto is over. Good luck Doc, do get your well deserved postseason and World Series exposure and continue making baseball fans happy. Just don’t sign with Yankees, will ya?
Scorecard for yesterday's game
