"Blue Jays fans are mad as hell.

But for the most part they appear to be willing to keep on taking it.

Oh, there was plenty of frustration on Monday night at the cavernous Rogers Centre where 800 or so season ticket holders were invited to an open bar, pre-season "state of the franchise" session with team brass. But that frustration was mostly expressed among themselves.

Few of the sharp barbs that fans have bombarded the Toronto Sun with over that past week on the state of the team made it to Blue Jays CEO Paul Beeston, general manager Alex Anthopoulos and manager John Farrell.

But that doesn't mean there was an acceptance of the status quo.

Glen Pye, a season ticket holder from that very first snowy April day in 1977 when the neophyte team took to old Exhibition Stadium, said he is as frustrated as he has ever been in his 35 consecutive years as a Blue Jays supporter.

Almost all of that frustration, he said, is directed at team owners — Rogers Communications."