Blue Jays seeking new home ballpark for season after Canada bars team from playing in Toronto

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Coronavirus updates: Blue Jays seeking new home ballpark for season after Canada bars team from playing in Toronto

By Derek Hawkins and Hannah Knowles
7/18/2020, 4:28:56 p.m.

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Here are some other significant developments:

The Toronto Blue Jays said they are “in the process of finalizing the best home location for the remainder of the 2020 season” after the Canadian government barred the team from playing home games at their ballpark in Toronto amid concerns about the coronavirus. The announcement comes just days before Opening Day in Major League Baseball; the Blue Jays’s home opener is July 29 against the visiting Washington Nationals.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/18/coronavirus-updates-us-infections-top-76000-day-virus-spread-continues-unabated/

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Source: Wall Street Journal

Canada Bars Blue Jays From Playing Home Games in Toronto

Official cites public health risk from players, staff traveling to and from Covid-19 hot spots in the U.S.

By Paul Vieira and Jared Diamond
Updated July 18, 2020 5:12 pm ET

Canada won’t allow the Blue Jays to play Major League Baseball games in Toronto this season, citing the risk posed by team players and staff traveling to parts of the U.S. where the risk of Covid-19 transmission is elevated.

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Read more: https://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-bars-blue-jays-from-playing-home-games-in-toronto-11595105735

[applegrove]

1. I agree with that. No sense in having 200 people travelling back and forth

across the border 6 times a week. That is just looking for trouble.

[LonePirate]

2. There will not be a baseball season this year so this decision by Canada is largely ceremonial.

[CaptYossarian]

3. The mayor of Las Vegas will accept them.

[Brother Buzz]

4. There are a boatload of really nice unused minor league ballparks to choose from

Bummer they are in the American League East division so they won't be relocating in the west.