No love for the World Series

By Riley Maracle

BELLEVILLE – In a hockey mad area baseball’s Fall Classic doesn’t appear to be getting very much attention.

Two of baseball’s most historic franchises will face off tonight for Game 1 of the World Series. The Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals have both played 162 games this season along with two playoff rounds to reach this point. It appears that this effort hasn’t been appreciated so much in the Belleville area.

Erin Cloutier is the manager of the Dem Bones sports bar in Belleville. She thinks this area is definitely focused on other sports.  “I don’t think baseball is as popular in a sports bar as, let’s say, hockey,” said Cloutier. “Also this is Canada so we are all hockey obsessed.”

Cloutier still thinks that they will got a bit of a crowd for the game. “There are still some hardcore baseball fans,” she said. “ They come out and they sit at the bar and they want their own TV turned on to baseball, and some people will sit here all afternoon.”

Christina Hamilton is the manager for Boston Pizza in Belleville. She says she isn’t expecting much of a crowd for the game.

“We don’t have a huge crowd for baseball,” said Hamilton.

This is a hockey-mad community, she said.

“I am a huge baseball fan but nobody else in the city is. We promote hockey.”

Nick Taillon is a student at Loyalist College. He said he doesn’t have much interest in the upcoming game.

“Not really, no, I don’t really care about it all that much,” said Taillon. “Because I don’t follow baseball all that much.”

He added that he hasn’t heard much being discussed about it the Fall Classic.

“(I found out) through the newspaper; it’s the only way I would have known,” said Taillon. “Otherwise I would have been completely oblivious.”