Toronto Blue Jays Finally Have a Good Team, But No One Is Watching

The American League leaders are an exciting team. 

With the roll back leadership of Cito Gaston, the Toronto Blue Jays are leading the way.

This year, in the light of a revival for the boys in double blue, there is one aspect that still needs reviving.

In the 1980s and early 90s when the team was competitive, the people of Toronto showed up—often competing with the LA Dodgers for the amount of fans passing through the turnstiles.

Now, the Jays have become a victim of years of bad baseball, even when the team would have good players and CY Young winners, it did not change the facts.

In a division of heavy weight spenders, the Blue Jays were seen as the weak sister.

Yet now the team, not unlike the Tampa Bay Rays from last year, are going against the grain.  Having lost only one series so far this season, the team is on a roll. 

With all the early success, there are more empty seats than full ones. 

Fans are not back to cheer on their team; they are still staying away either out of disinterest or out of fear that the team will dash their hopes.

So far, the Blue Jays have just kept winning. 

Even with struggles at the gate, the team is still going forward.

As their pitching depth fell to skim milk levels, they still kept going. 

This is a team that can hit and pitch—something they have not done since the heady days of Joe Carter, Roberto Alomar, and Dave Steib. 

The fans will hopefully catch back on with the team once they face stiffer competition in the Yankees and Red Sox this month. 

If the Jays can win those games, they will go a long way to proving to the doubters.

As we get closer to that moment, I hope more than 20,000 people will start showing up to these games. 

They are missing a great team.