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Originally Posted by isaidso
Exactly! Ottawa should be able to draw 10,000 for baseball without even trying.
Not a baseball nation? Cultural disinterest is probably at the root of the problem, but it's not that Canada isn't a baseball nation. The problem is Ontario. Ontario doesn't see past hockey, but this tunnel vision for hockey isn't a fact nationally. In other parts of Canada, other sports are part of the culture as well.
It's a mistake to conclude that the rest of Canada simply mirrors Ontario. It wasn't till I moved to Ontario that I realized how big hockey was in other parts of Canada. Where I grew up, hockey was completely off many people's radar. I've tried warming to the game, but it's just doesn't resonate culturally for me. It's always been football, basketball, and baseball.
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I lived in New-Brunswick most of my childhood, they actually scrapped most of the baseball fields to put soccer fields instead. There is zero interest in Quebec, so when you have 2/3 of Canada's population that doesn't care about baseball, who's interested in it?