The future of our Basketball program is actually extremely promising.
As for Baseball. Its been discussed that if LA hosts the 2024 Olympics that MLB would consider a break to allow the top MLB players to compete for their country. Perhaps that's the incentive needed. You would think you would want to compete for your country out of Pride though.
If you're a Canadian baseball player and you see Canada get curbed stomped on National Television you would think that would bother them.