A Day without Beer at the Rogers Centre

THE BLUE JAYS WON their home opener on Monday, and their fans celebrated by pelting the field with baseballs, beer cups and paper airplanes. Although determined in advance, beer and alcoholic beverages were banned from the stadium the next day due to $4 ticket prices for Messin' with the Recession promotion night. Too much beer makes people do silly and stupid things at the ballpark, like running out onto the field and sliding into second base or intentionally trying to hit a ballplayer with a baseball, although pitchers occasionally do the latter while sober. Stadium officials believe $4 tickets and beer are a bad combination, but they might want to add Opening Day in Canada and beer to that list.