They played the final baseball game yesterday… in Ottawa… and 7468 fans turned out on a picture perfect day to see their Ottawa Lynx bring down the curtain on AAA baseball in the Canadian capital. As the game was winding down the fans stood and cheered, but at the conclusion there were no post game ceremonies, no dedications, just a few players tossing their caps into the stands and racing for the door. That was it.

For the many who turned out, the bitter irony of this last game was not the waiting time to line up to buy tickets, but the hard time patrons had finding parking. Over the years the Lynx have sold off chunks of their parking lots to other developers, to the point that less than 600 spaces exist onsite to service the facility. Trust me when I tell you that the neighborhood is pretty densely built up by now, so spillover parking is not exactly in abundance.

The Ottawa Citizen has the full story here on the last game.

So what happens now? Although there is speculation that an independent team might fill the place of the Ottawa Lynx, the building might become The Steelback Centre of Ottawa. An ambitious plan is being forwarded to convert Lynx Stadium into a sports and entertainment facility with a bent towards soccer rather than baseball.

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