04.08.09 BLUE JAYS FACE BEER BAN AFTER OPENER
No, that hed wasn’t a horrible pun, but we’ll have plenty of those later. Actually, the Toronto Blue Jays face a beer and liquor license suspension coincidentally after fan behavior took an unruly turn in the Jays’ opener yesterday against Detriot. Fans at the Rogers Centre littered the field with baseballs, paper planes, empty beer cups, and old copies of Jagged Little Pill. Okay, I made that last one up. Either way, there will be no hooch at tonight’s game, per order of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario:
The panel cited five broken rules at baseball and football games and concerts dating to the Canadian Football League championship game in 2007. The stadium will also be dry on April 21 when Toronto plays Texas, and for a CFL game on Aug. 1.
Both affected baseball games fell on dates when the price of upper deck seats was cut to $4, a promotion called “Messin’ With Recession.” The ban covers everything from concessions, vendors and restaurants to the beer refrigerators in both locker rooms.
Signs posted Tuesday at stadium entrances listed five reasons for the license suspension: permitting drunkenness, permitting the use of narcotics, selling and serving to apparent minors, failure to request approved identification and permitting illegal liquor on the premises.
It’s hard to believe that the province of Ontario would force people to watch baseball sober. That just reeks of cruel and unusual punishment to me. Not that would expect any different from a cadre of pinko socialists. But the liquor ban taking effect right after a game like that, is that true irony? Or is that Alanis Morrisette irony, which really isn’t irony at all? And to think that Dave Coulier actually hit that…
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BLUE JAYS FACE BEER BAN AFTER OPENER
Rex Banner was Canadian.
Hey, don’t lump those Nazi’s in Ontario with the rest of us. Saskatchewan Roughrider fans threw beer cans (not just plastic cups) at the B.C. Lions bench and the only thing that happened from that is they stopped servicing beers in cans.
Merk, you have my condolences, buddy/guy/friend.
/Messin’ With Recession sounds like the title of a Ratt album.
As long as they don’t take away their sodomy.
Good point Punch Rockgroin….How are we going to get American fans to make the drive to Toronto without the promise of getting butt fucked by Canadians.
I know when I’m sodomizing a Yankees fan at the Rogers Centre I like to have an ice cold beer in hand.
I thought fans are supposed to get unruly and out of control when their team is getting clobbered, not when their team is kicking the shit out of the visiting squad.
I guess when you’re drunk, nothing else matters. Kind of like the fat pig I let give me a BJ at a party last weekend…
I really wish that booze was banned for something this cool. It was actually because they served a bunch of minors when the WBC was there, they made a deal to have booze for the first game but not have them for a few after that. Holy shit! /non sarcastic answer
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