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Uhuniau · #**2181** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 4:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Trainyards is almost directly adjacent to downtown, I don't think many cities have as much big box shopping as close to downtown...

By the life of me I can't imagine any measure by which Trainyards is adjacent to downtown, or, for that matter, adjacent to almost anything worth being in.

Uhuniau · #**2182** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 4:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by ac888yow

Hmm. There are 3 Canadian Tire stores within a (much) closer distance to the core than South Keys/Orleans (Coventry, Carling, Heron). There's a massive Sport Check at St. Laurent mall. There are Walmarts at Trainyards and Billings Bridge.

The overriding point you're making is a valid/interesting one, but to suggest that one cannot find a baseball glove closer than Orleans or South Keys (from the core) is not credible.

The location of those stores tells me absolutely nothing about whether or not they had ball gloves in stock last June when my friend was looking for one.

Uhuniau · #**2183** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 4:54 PM**

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Originally Posted by Harley613

Trainyards is almost directly adjacent to downtown, I don't think many cities have as much big box shopping as close to downtown...

There are now cities that actually have big box stores right in their downtowns, or at least urbanized versions of them, but that kind of thinking is apparently impossible in Ottawa, both from the regulatory end and from the developer/retailer end.

Uhuniau · #**2184** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 4:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by jeremy_haak

I don't know when this particular baseball glove desert incident happened, but baseball has recently seen quite a resurgence in popularity. My understanding is that they are having trouble with field availability now in a lot of places.

The ball fields in Ottawa seem to be heavily subscribed during the season.

YOWflier · #**2185** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 5:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by Uhuniau

The location of those stores tells me absolutely nothing about whether or not they had ball gloves in stock last June when my friend was looking for one.

Do you know? Sounds like not, yet you've asserted that the "closest ball ball glove to be found" was in Orleans or South Keys. Those I provided, and others after me, are just examples of places closer than that for which the probability is extremely high that ball gloves were available.

Uhuniau · #**2186** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheGoods

Were is there a sports store in South Keys, was it Walmart? Why did he not go to Elgin Sports as you suggested?

We tried Elgin Sports.

THEY HAD NO GLOVES.

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If they are closing down, then they never sold the product and wasn't a big loss. I find this very hard to believe that the Sport Expert at Rideau did not have it unless he is going in the middle of winter trying to buy a baseball glove.

It was June. There were no ball gloves in any store in the Rideau Centre. We called or visited all of them. (We ended up with a committee of three hunting all over town, starting from the centre outwards, looking for a damn glove.)

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At the end of the day, it is supply and demand.

Indeed. And there is a lot of unmet demand for basic consumer goods as the retail sector hollows out in the core, even as it adds residential units.

TheGoods · #**2187** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 5:19 PM**

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Originally Posted by Uhuniau

The location of those stores tells me absolutely nothing about whether or not they had ball gloves in stock last June when my friend was looking for one.

Your friend was mistaken, he didn’t try hard enough, he should have googled and called some stores.

I can guarantee it that Cnd Tire, Play it Again Sports (which is where I bought a used soft ball glove last year in May, they also had new gloves), Valliquette Sports (they have a full section on their website on baseball) and Sportcheck would be selling a baseball glove in June.

Uhuniau · #**2188** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 5:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by ac888yow

Do you know? Sounds like not, yet you've asserted that the "closest ball ball glove to be found" was in Orleans or South Keys. Those I provided, and others after me, are just examples of places closer than that for which the probability is extremely high that ball gloves were available.

We visited or called many, many, many stores looking for the Damn Glove.

Uhuniau · #**2189** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 5:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheGoods

Your friend was mistaken, he didn’t try hard enough, he should have googled and called some stores.

I can guarantee it that Cnd Tire, Play it Again Sports (which is where I bought a used soft ball glove last year in May, they also had new gloves), Valliquette Sports (they have a full section on their website on baseball) and Sportcheck would be selling a baseball glove in June.

We tried Play It Again. Bupkis.

I can guarantee that you are wrong. It was one of the most baffling attempts to find and buy a thing that I have ever been involved in.

acottawa · #**2190** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 5:37 PM**

So to summarize the Great Baseball Glove Debate of 2017

Maybe there was a weird run on baseball gloves in June 2016 that made them really hard to find.
Normally there are numerous stores within a few km of the Rideau Centre that habitually stock ball gloves, including the ones listed above.

rocketphish · #**2191** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 6:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by acottawa

So to summarize the Great Baseball Glove Debate of 2017

Maybe there was a weird run on baseball gloves in June 2016 that made them really hard to find.
Normally there are numerous stores within a few km of the Rideau Centre that habitually stock ball gloves, including the ones listed above.

I second the motion. Next topic please...

YOWflier · #**2192** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 6:04 PM**

My cross examination wasn't complete but I'll respect the wishes of the plenary to move on.

phil235 · #**2193** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 6:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by TheGoods

Where is the new Baseball Town store will be located?

Bank and Flora, in the old Tommy & Lefebvre building that has been subdivided. It is filling up quite nicely - there is Three Tarts bakery, a pizza place and a shwarma shop to fill in a 4-block gap in shwarma shops.

TheGoods · #**2194** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 6:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by phil235

Bank and Flora, in the old Tommy & Lefebvre building that has been subdivided. It is filling up quite nicely - there is Three Tarts bakery, a pizza place and a shwarma shop to fill in a 4-block gap in shwarma shops.

Cool and problem solved, there will no longer be a Great Baseball debate in 2018, there will be a baseball store in the core.

eemy · #**2195** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 7:21 PM**

I know I've had frustrating experiences trying to buy stuff like winter wear in February, or a spring jacket in April. A lot of stores put the next season's clothing up so early now that it's hard to actually buy stuff in season any more. The baseball gloves were probably put in storage so that they could stock up on snowshoes and balaclavas.

Radster · #**2196** Posted **Feb 8, 2017, 11:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Uhuniau

We tried Play It Again. Bupkis.

I can guarantee that you are wrong. It was one of the most baffling attempts to find and buy a thing that I have ever been involved in.

Sorry I know the debate is over, but I still wanted to chime in. I noticed Uhuniau deliberately failed to admit that they never tried to see if any of the 3 C. Tire locations within the greenbelt had baseball gloves. Have you ever been in a Canadian Tire, in June? Their baseball-softball section is HUGE. Your fail, just admit dammit for once, that you were wrong and didn't try hard enough -