Why Quality Means Nothing In Toronto and The MLSE

“When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. But in Toronto, when the going gets tough, the dough keeps rolling”

I would like to thank my friend Andrew Echevarria for that wonderful quote. Mostly because it has inspired me to write this article. On with the show!

Take a minute to drink in the quote... think about what it might mean, I’ll wait don’t worry. That quote must be what the MLSE lives by. When you think about it, why would the MLSE care about the success of the team, or in other words, why would they get the tough going? They make money either way right? Right.

So, when did quality stop mattering? I’d say somewhere around year 25 or so, of this 42 year cup drought. This would be about the time they realized, “hey, it doesn’t matter what the team does! The fans will still come to the games any!”

I know that companies, and yes, that is what MLSE is a company a business, they really only care about the money. But, money is infinite, the profit is what it’s really about they like all businesses, have expenses. The money they make must go to staff members and share holders. So it seems to them that as long as people come to the games and pay admission they have no worries.

Don’t get me wrong, by no means am I saying that fans should stop going to a game just to teach the MLSE a lesson, because it’s just crazy to think any fans would ever do that. But for years now MLSE has been saying “we do care about the fans, we do care about the results and we do care about the players.”

I would like one good reason to believe that. They don’t care about anything except...any guesses? That’s right! Profit! How much money can we make off this? They wonder.

There are so many Leaf fans out there, that the recent small decline is hardly even noticeable. But the fact remains that over the last few years the “fan ship” has become smaller than ever before. Very soon small curve is going to plummet. People will become fed up with these losing ways. Fans won’t put up with this forever, Think about it MLSE (especially you, Richard Peddie)