Furtherdown in Ken Gray's piece in today's Ottawa Citizen he writes that "More sports: If you're an arts aficionado, Ottawa is nirvana. But if you're a sports fan, O-Town is No-Town. Take away the Senators and Belleville has as much sports as Ottawa. Thank goodness College Councillor Rick Chiarelli is pounding the bushes for a Blue Jays farm team for the mouldering $20-million Ottawa Stadium on Coventry Road."
There were a number of things that killed the Ottawa Lynx who, by the way, set a record for most fans in their first season in the International League. First off the City of Ottawa sold their parking lot, well most of it, to a private company who built a Hampton Inns. Secondly the street parking is next to non existent. So you have a 10,000 plus stadium with parking for 500 cars. What makes it worse is the city did not dedicate any busses to the stadium so getting there by bus was, at best, sh*tty.
Clean up those problems first Mr. Chiarelli and then get us a team. And it doesn't have to be a Blue Jays affiliate.
The devil is in the details.
WFDS
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