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Blue Jays Fans! $1 Hot Dogs Are Back This Year – But There’s A Catch…

Mar 9, 2024

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Blue Jays Fans will get their $1 dollar Hot Dogs in 2024, but there’s a catch—Billionaires don’t like loss leaders.

Last year, Blue Jays fans treated “Loonie Hot Dog Night” like a staff Christmas party during Tuesday home games and took advantage of the Cheap Hot Dog promo. It was almost as if long-suffering Jays fans delivered a Hot Dog gluttony message to Jays brass.

 

Rogers (Blue Jays parent company) has decided to stop subsidizing your resentment eating, and they are limiting you to 4 – count them, FOUR hotdogs per fan.  

BlogTO: The team announced the return of the promotion on Thursday, saying, “Back by popular demand, Loonie Dogs Night presented by Schneiders returns to Rogers Centre for every Tuesday home game of the 2024 season.On Loonie Dogs Night presented by Schneiders, fans will have the opportunity to purchase $1 hot dogs from various concession stands around the ballpark.”

The announcement included a footnote warning attendees that, “Due to demand, you may be limited to 4 Loonie Dogs per transaction.”

The rule, limiting fans to four of these cheap hot dogs per purchase, was in place during the 2023 season, though its enforcement was inconsistent at best, as many fans reported purchasing more than four of these snacks in one go last year.

Hot dogs were an unexpected storyline in the Jays’ 2023 season. Rogers Centre crowds took down a staggering 693,865 during the 2023 campaign, which is only expected to increase this year.

Apparently, they “loosely enforced” the hot dog limit last year, which is breaking news to me. Lochlin and I ate 40 hot dogs with Caryma and Chris (our production guy) last year—twice. Attendants happily handed over those tube steaks—sans side-eye.

The Hot Dog hypocrisy where the Blue Jays are concerned should be a major storyline heading into the 2024 season.

Last year, they pimped our hot dog-eating records while silently limiting the number of trailer park tacos they served. This year, they are telling you they will limit your hot dog intake up front by tasking their poorly paid hot dog vendors with eyeballing greedy fans like that will happen.

What’s next? Maybe they’ll hire that Scottish company to put on that Willy Wonka Experience at the concourse for Junior Jays Saturdays.

Buy an eight-pack and watch the game at home. You won’t get stuck in traffic with four shitty hotdogs bearing down on your colon on the two-hour journey getting from Front to Lakeshore leaving the game.

You’re welcome.

Chris Rooke

Content Director-Producer-Writer

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