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Originally Posted by isaidso
What happened to the team? Was it a lack of interest in baseball by people in Ottawa? You'd think a metro of 1.1 million could easily support a team. Some teams in MLB are in metros not that much bigger than that. Milwaukee? Kansas City?
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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". Not like they didn't try: prices were great, the stadium is cozy and pleasant, close to downtown, getting there was no hassle. People just weren't going. Like the Phoenix Coyotes, you can try a sport outside its natural market but there's only so much money an owner can lose.
The former Ottawa Lynx are now the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs.
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