The first game at home for the Blue Jays is one filled with excitement every year. It’s usually the hottest ticket of the season, and even in years when the team struggled to get 20,000 people into the Rogers Centre, the place was always bumping on Opening Day.
There’s no doubt that fans will be excited again when April rolls around, but that first game will have some extra meaning in 2018, and will likely quiet the raucous crowd for at least a little while.
The Blue Jays announced on Wednesday that they will honour their franchise icon, Roy Halladay, who was killed in a plane crash earlier this month while flying over the Gulf of Mexico.