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Going to the game next Monday. The missus, the son and his girlfriend attending. Our thing now is to travel to a Mets game to see a home team we’ve not seen before. Also seeing something at the Toronto Film Festival since we’re there.

cal sharpie wrote: ↑Sat Aug 31, 2024 2:02 pm Going to the game next Monday. The missus, the son and his girlfriend attending. Our thing now is to travel to a Mets game to see a home team we’ve not seen before. Also seeing something at the Toronto Film Festival since we’re there.

When the Rogers Centre debuted some 35 years ago, (originally, it was simply called "the Skydome" -- this was back in the day before the grubby and greedy large corporations got their names on practically all of the sports stadiums), it was as state of the art as a sports stadium could be. During its inaugural season, the "Game of the Week" did a pre-game feature on the stadium, including a bit about how there was even a McDonald's inside of the Skydome. I thought that was the coolest thing I ever saw in a sports stadium, which shows just how bad and limited stadium food was back then. I immediately got in the mood to go and watch a game at the Skydome just because of the McDonald's in there. Which itself, was kinda odd, because even 35 years ago, McDonald's was so ubiquitous that if you lived anywhere in the five boroughs, no matter where you lived, you were probably no more than a 10 minute walk or drive away from a McDonald's.

To this day, I never did get to go to that stadium.

I was at the Steve J Rogers Center last Sunday.

They really improved it since last time I was there -- big renovation this off-season or last.

We had a great time, Jays defeated the Angels 5-2.

We are in Toronto again this weekend moving Lunchpail to his swanky dorm.