The Jays Say Goodbye To Halladay

December 19, 2009 | Comments Off

Since early September 2009, sentiment towards baseball in the social media world has been slowly increasing. Sentiment towards the Toronto Blue Jays and Major League Baseball (MLB) has been fairly similar, with the MLB pulling slightly ahead for the most part.

Sentiment towards Roy Halladay, a pitcher for the Blue Jays, had been a bit lower compared to discussions of baseball in general but, at the end of October, the announcement that he may not be returning to the Jays caused some commotion. In fact, Halladay’s sentiment increased as people became excited discussing which team he might join. But, emotions returned to normal in just a couple of weeks.

The big news, however, was Thursday’s official announcement that the Blue Jays will be saying good-bye to one of their much loved heros. After weeks of negotiations, Roy Halladay confirmed he will be moving on to join the Philadelphia Phillies. And that is where you see in the chart that sentiment towards Halladay has just started to pick up again. On the other hand, sentiment towards the Jays didn’t show much change as people were unsure about the three new players the Jays would be getting in return.

Only time will tell whether the social media world thinks this was a good decision.

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