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Originally Posted by m0nkyman
Metro Kansas City is 2.2 Million, Milwaukee is 1.7 million, but an immediate hinterland of well over 2 million.
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Exactly! Ottawa should be able to draw 10,000 for baseball without even trying.
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Originally Posted by Mille Sabords
More to the point, we're not a baseball nation. People just weren't going. In the days we were the farm team for the Montreal Expos there was a good reason for baseball fans to follow the team, but since we were switched to being the farm team for the Baltimore Orioles, it was more like "whatever".
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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.