Should the Toronto Blue Jays play out of Toronto, P.E.I. this summer?

q12 · #1 Posted **May 18, 2021, 6:42 PM**

Toronto, Prince Edward Island (1) by Randy McDonald, on Flickr

esquire · #2 Posted **May 18, 2021, 6:47 PM**

Don't make me start another Winnipeg Goldeyes thread here

MonctonRad · #3 Posted **May 18, 2021, 6:48 PM**

I know that sign - close to New Glasgow (PEI).

Toronto, PEI - population about 50.

Should the Jays play there - sure, but only if they build an appropriate stadium.

jonny24 · #4 Posted **May 18, 2021, 8:12 PM**

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Originally Posted by MonctonRad

I know that sign - close to New Glasgow (PEI).

Toronto, PEI - population about 50.

Should the Jays play there - sure, but only if they build an appropriate stadium.

Surely there's a local Lions or Optimists park?

Doady · #5 Posted **May 18, 2021, 8:51 PM**

It's funny how upset people get about a thread about a potential new sports team in Toronto being made in the Canada section of the forum, to the point that a moderator felt the need move the thread and other people feel the need to make new threads like this one to mock that other thread, but a thread about a potential sports team in Quebec City is okay, no problem. You can see why a lot of people from Toronto don't bother with SSP, they just use Urban Toronto instead.

Rico Rommheim · #6 Posted **May 18, 2021, 9:25 PM**

Lol

ShavedParmesanCheese · #7 Posted **May 18, 2021, 10:21 PM**

Everybody's used to Toronto being the centre of the universe, and the big league teams. Quebec City on the other hand only has a major junior team...

isaidso · #8 Posted **May 19, 2021, 9:04 PM**

Proves the point that having 1 city that dominates the country isn't ideal. There will always be a degree of resentment towards Toronto and Toronto will always, to a degree, dismiss/ignore the rest of the country till that imbalance is rectified.

I have zero issue with Toronto being #1 but Canada would be better off with 10-15 metros scattered from coast to coast that were sizeable metros (3-6 million) in their own right. It won't happen in my lifetime but maybe next century Canada will have a more even dispersal of population, power, and influence.

Germany, the USA, Italy, and even Australia all have a preferable distribution of population.

JHikka · #9 Posted **May 19, 2021, 9:15 PM**

What's a good example of a country with no large dominant city and multiple equally-sized cities? South Africa? Australia? India? Countries like the US (NY & LA) and China (Beijing, Shanghai) have a pair or triple of large cities above all others, which isn't too different than what we have here in Canada...I can't think of a country with four or five equally-large cities spread out, and especially not in a large geographic space like Canada. It's probably too much to ask for.

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It's funny how upset people get about a thread about a potential new sports team in Toronto being made in the Canada section of the forum, to the point that a moderator felt the need move the thread and other people feel the need to make new threads like this one to mock that other thread, but a thread about a potential sports team in Quebec City is okay, no problem. You can see why a lot of people from Toronto don't bother with SSP, they just use Urban Toronto instead.

Probably lies more with who started the thread rather than the contents therein, but your points about Toronto are pretty correct.

q12 · #10 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:23 PM**

Martin, P.E.I. changed it's name to Toronto, P.E.I. during the 1966–67 NHL season...

MolsonExport · #11 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:33 PM**

Boston (frozen) Pizza temporarily changed its name to Montreal (frozen) Pizza during a not too long ago playoff series.

Denscity · #12 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:36 PM**

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What's a good example of a country with no large dominant city and multiple equally-sized cities? South Africa? Australia? India? Countries like the US (NY & LA) and China (Beijing, Shanghai) have a pair or triple of large cities above all others, which isn't too different than what we have here in Canada...I can't think of a country with four or five equally-large cities spread out, and especially not in a large geographic space like Canada. It's probably too much to ask for.

Probably lies more with who started the thread rather than the contents therein, but your points about Toronto are pretty correct.

It's because the Toronto team thread was the 3rd Toronto centric thread started by the same new person within a very short period of time.
Why is the Toronto section so dead??

JHikka · #13 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:41 PM**

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Why is the Toronto section so dead??

Because there's an entire forum called UrbanToronto which is similarly as active as SSP.

Denscity · #14 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:43 PM**

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Because there's an entire forum called UrbanToronto which is similarly as active as SSP.

There are plenty of Toronto centric threads on SSP and no shortage of Toronto posters though.

JHikka · #15 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:45 PM**

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There are plenty of Toronto centric threads on SSP and no shortage of Toronto posters though.

There's simply no need to post on the Toronto subforum, really. If TO makes up X% of any top 10 skyscraper thread then that's it, really. The rest can be discussed more in depth (and frankly, better) at UT.

MolsonExport · #16 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:48 PM**

same thing with MTLurb, where all the stalwart Quebec forumers decamped, except those that did not to be ruled by "Mr. Iron-fist with sensitive skin" Malek (who was banned from SSP for labelling other people's cities as shitholes...which is a bit rich, since he lived in beautiful downtown Laval).

Denscity · #17 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:50 PM**

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There's simply no need to post on the Toronto subforum, really. If TO makes up X% of any top 10 skyscraper thread then that's it, really. The rest can be discussed more in depth (and frankly, better) at UT.

The basketball and baseball in Canada are totally Raptors and Blue Jay's threads.
Vancouver's section is extremely popular and has been for years with many different threads.

JHikka · #18 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:51 PM**

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The basketball and baseball in Canada are totally Raptors and Blue Jay's threads.

This is hardly, hardly hardly hardly, a centre for good sports discussion.

You're free to discuss anything in those basketball and baseball threads if you'd like, but I don't think it's a coincidence that Canada's only professional teams in those sports are, uh, in Toronto.

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Vancouver's section is extremely popular and has been for years with many different threads.

That's good for Vancouver. The Atlantic section is busy because there's no central alternative.

Denscity · #19 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:54 PM**

Nope but most posters in those threads live close to Toronto.
There's only a national presence there when the bandwagon begins to fill up with team success.

JHikka · #20 Posted **May 20, 2021, 10:55 PM**

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Nope but most posters in those threads live close to Toronto.
There's only a national presence there when the bandwagon begins to fill up with team success.

Genuinely don't know what your problem is at this point aside from people existing in Toronto. Don't know what to tell you. Do you think the OP of this thread was actually being serious?