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Message: [QUOTE="Strategist, post: 14859, member: 767"] Baseball is huge in Puerto Rico. We've adopted the American passtime as our own national sport due to the influence of being a territory of the US. Winter League baseball is being played right now locally and sometimes local MLB stars play to keep themselves in shape. Well, most of the Caribbean as well, Cuba and the Dominican Republic also are heavy baseball countries. We had many homegrown MLB stars over the years, Roberto Clemente being the most famous and successful. Currently, Francisco Lindor of the Mets and Carlos Correa of the Twins are the most prominent Puertorrican stars. Fun fact, Puerto Rico was being considered as the new destination for the Montreal Expos when they were being moved, but we eventually lost out to Washington DC. Our stadium is smaller (can only house about 15,000 fans or so) and the location was deemed less convenient than DC. Oh well, it would've been fun to have an MLB team. One can dream. Weirdly enough, I am a Mariners fan. My father is a Yankees fan and I picked up the Mariners in the 90's because of Edgar Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr. and to have a fun rivarly with my dad. Also loved Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball game for the SNES. Unfortunately it was a cursed decision as the Mariners have been one of the worst teams in baseball since then. We did have Ichiro Suzuki for a few years and Nintendo owned the team, which was kind of fun but other than that it has been painful. [/QUOTE]

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