Blue Jays grass dreams slowly being mowed down

New Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro doesn’t consider grass at the Rogers Centre to be a true “need”. Given the Jays priorities, it may be a slowly dying project

Grass in the ‘Dome. The debate has simmered for years now, but had come to the forefront towards the end of Paul Beeston’s tenure as the former president began a fairly encouraging and public push to have grass installed by 2018. The conversation soon quieted, though, and Mark Shapiro has done little to re-ignite any optimism.

Speaking with Toronto media on Thursday, Shapiro made it clear that the natural grass project is one of several projects the Blue Jays are facing. “My opinion is, we don’t need it,” he told John Lott of the…