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Root, Root, Root for the Home Team

It’s Sunday night at the Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto. Inside the Blue Jays’ cavernous dome, the centerfield scoreboard flashes the estimated attendance at 13,094, though it seems like no more than 8,000 of the stadium’s 50,000 seats are filled. On ESPN’s broadcast, entire sections of chair backs are vacant, making the place look embarrassingly empty.


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