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SkyDome renamed to Rogers Centre??! - highlander - 02-02-2005

Bah. They should have left it the name it was but of course the corporations that own major shares in sports teams and venues all want their name on the building the team plays in.

I just like SkyDome better than Rogers Centre (eeww).

High

- chris - 02-02-2005

Roger's didn't just buy the naming rights, they bought the whole damn SkyDome... giving the them right to name it whatever they want. I'm surprised it took them two months to get around to renaming it.

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And they are the sole owners of the Jays - not just a shareholder.

- MikeS - 02-02-2005

They own the team, they own the building and now they're giving the Rogers Centre (gotta get used to that!) a makeover with three new video boards and new FieldTurf...add to that a $210M commitment to player salaries over the next three years (they sit at around $50M this year) and he could have called it the "I'm Ted Rogers and You're Not-Dome" for all I care...

Unfortunately, in the end all this is moot when you play in a division with the Yankees ($200M in salaries PER year) and Bosox, but it's nice to see them at least making an effort...

- NMAS - 02-02-2005

They should have Just called it Rogers Skydome, everyone is going to call it skydome anyways.

- Roy-at-tth - 02-02-2005

WHY WON'T THEY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?

- prz - 02-02-2005

Good to see they are making an attempt to fix things up there. I didnt realize it was the last place in the league to use astro turf.

- mrlayance - 02-02-2005

It will always be SkyDome to me.

- j-monster - 02-02-2005

They should have called it Rogers Field or Rogers Park... a Centre just doesn't make sense for a baseball diamond.

But yeah, it's good that they are putting in new FieldTurf and increasing the payroll... although it's hard to see how it will help them beat the Yankees and Red Sox... oh well.

- clearlyentranced - 02-02-2005

mrlayance Wrote:It will always be SkyDome to me.

Ditto! 10-20 years from now we'll talk about the skydome...and our children will look at us like we're crackheads..but..it'll still be the skydome.

- chris - 02-02-2005

I think that "The Rogers Dome" would have been more fitting.

- gratts99 - 02-02-2005

no matter what you call it that staduim has left its best days behind. When built it was so cool to be in the dome, now everyone wants a nice outdoor ballpark.

- cferneyh - 02-02-2005

And given Rogers notorious service quality, we can expect the Dome to start caving in any day now.

- Stephen Dame - 02-04-2005

Wow, this sucks. There was some simple poetry about the name... A dome that opened to the sky... but then what the hell would Ted Rogers known about simplicity.

This sucks.