Bob Donegan de Ivar’s, a seafood restaurants based in Seattle known for its slogan “Keep clam!”, He says he is a bit concerned about the lack of Canadians who travel south to encourage the Toronto Blue Jays while facing Seattle sailors.
Donegan says that he loves Canadian baseball fans, referring to them as “friendly and charming”, but he sees signs that they can be transmitting the opportunity to see the tiles during their only trip to the state of Washington this season.
“I am looking over the promenade at this time and there are hundreds of people walking along the coast, not one of them has a Jay blue cap or a Jay blue sweatshirt, and that saddens us,” Donegan said on Friday, before the set of three Jays games against the sailors in T-Mobile Park.
The visit of the Jays to Seattle occurs as less Canadians travel to the United States amid the rates of President Donald Trump and the threats of annexation. April saw a 51 percent drop in cars with BC plates that were directed to the US. Uu. From southwest BC compared to the same month last year.
Julie Nimmock of Vancouver says that she and a friend have the tradition of traveling south to see the Jays in Seattle. This year, he said, it is different given the current commercial war and the concerns that increase the scrutiny on the US border makes traveling to the country too uncertain.
“I think that with everything that is happening right now, I simply do not feel 100 percent comfortable going to the United States today, and I don’t want to support the economy, considering some of Donald Trump’s statements to Canada,” Nimmock said.
Look | The presenter of the Seattle radio station talks about the absence of Canadian fans:
Kim Malcolm, the host of all the things considered of the NPR Kuow affiliation station, says that many Canadians usually cross the border to see baseball games housed in Seattle between the Blue Jays and the sailors, but Seattle residents are seeing less Canadian tourist traffic for the game of May 9. She tells BC Today Michelle Eliot about the companies that have talked about a decrease in tourism that coincides with the border rhetoric of the president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Nimmock said that she and her friend agreed to jump this year’s trip to Seattle and reassess as things advance. Meanwhile, he plans to visit the Nat Bailey stadium to see the Canadians of Vancouver, the Blue Jays affiliate.
A spokesman for Seattle sailors told CBC News that they have heard anecdotally that fewer fans are making the trip from Canada this year, but “the crowds of this weekend are tracking our expected assistance numbers.”
If the assistance fell, other factors could be at stake. The visit of Blue Jays this year to Seattle arrives in May, when for more than a decade it occurred in summer. There is also the fact that the Blue Jays have had a slow start, with a winning percentage below .500.
The team record is not a factor, says the sports columnist
Mike Wilner, a podcaster and baseball columnist of the Star of Toronto, believes that the performance of the team in the field will not affect the assistance in one way or another, since fans in western Canada have a present presentation story, regardless of the team record.
“I was in Seattle in 2022 when the tiles lost four in a row, each in a more humiliating way than the previous one … but it was full of tile fans,” Wilner said.
Wilner points out that some Canadian fans can still attend the games, since they bought tickets for the Mariners-JAys series last year, before the current commercial tensions of US-Canada.
While it remains to be seen how many fans will make the trip to the south, some Seattle companies participate in an ascent to attract Canadians to visit the Esmeralda city.
Open arms for Canadian friends will see participating businesses Take the Canadian dollar on par.
Donegan says that between seven and 11 percent of Seattle visitors come from Canada, and “the lack of that lovely Canadian accent is remarkable” in the city.
He says that the objective of the promotion is to ensure that Canadians attend the Jays games in Seattle, but also let you know “that you are our friends and our neighbors and miss it and hope that the relationship survives this temporal obstacle.”
