What to expect from the Rogers Centre crowd?

Since the 1992-93 World Series victories, the Blue Jays have not made the playoffs, the longest drought of any baseball team in the Major League.

With no other major sporting victory in Toronto since 1967, when the Maple Leafs won NHL’s Stanley Cup, Toronto fans are been starved of success and are traditionally very cynical, used to losing and heartbreak.

However when a Toronto team gets on a roll, the city is a buzz and the stadiums will be packed.

Unlike the Maple Leafs down the road, the Blue Jays crowd is very young, not corporate and a pretty good mix of male and female. On a Saturday or Sunday game, they start games at 1.07pm, which generate a lot of buzz, a great time and lots of young people and families.

One thing I will say about the Toronto crowd is that they are not the most knowledgable baseball crowd, so you will see some things you wouldn’t see at Yankee Stadium or Fenway Park 

For example: They will get the ‘wave’/’Mexican Wave’ going at a crucial part of the game, oblivious to the situation going on the field at the time. There have been way too many instances where a spectators have reached over the fence and pickup or catch a ball which is still in play. One other thing I have noticed is that they will start and finish a chant while the stadium announcer is talking/music playing, instead of waiting and chanting to make noise when all the announcements and music is finished.

I think these subtleties are due to an entire generation of fans watching mediocre teams that never played in important or meaningful games of baseball.