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Originally Posted by valo403
The thing is that's no different than football, and football participation in Calgary is way up from when I came up in the 90's. Your season is only 4 months or so, you get your ass kicked for 4 weeks at the start of the year followed by a 10-12 week grind through the regular season, then into playoffs. Once the season's over you have maybe a couple weeks of downtime before off-season workouts start. 2-3 days a week at 7am for group workouts, your own personalized weight and cardio routine to follow, and occasional testing to make sure you're actually working out. That lasts until May, when you go through a week of spring camp ass kicking, followed by a summer of individual workouts and the occasional team workout. Then it starts out all over again.
My point is that baseball isn't any different than any other sport, at least not at the higher levels, when it comes to the commitment and work that you have to put in, so that really can't be a reason for the low numbers. I don't know what the reason is, I personally stopped playing baseball because it was incredibly boring, but it's struggling all over the place. This isn't just a Canadian issue.
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This is true, i was just speaking from my personal experience since i have never played another sport.
I still believe its the climate, and that if the weather would cooperate, you would see higher number in baseball and in other outdoor sports.