tbf to Montreal, god knows i'm skeptical of a return, it is the largest metro area in Canada/US without a MLB team.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
iirc vancouver and portland are near-identical sizewise. interest may differ between the two.
feel like Portland makes more sense just because in Vancouver you're in the market of both the Jays and the Mariners. otoh they're both reasonably big cities with plenty of $$$; they only have short season A teams (and Portland's is outside the city in a suburb); and they each only have one major league sporting team in town (not counting soccer).
― -_- (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
id personally be happy if Vancouver had a non-short-season minor league team tbh (as it used to do long before i moved here)
― -_- (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
portland has a lengthy history of being unable to keep a triple-a team, although the stadium situation was never good
charlotte has a new triple-a ballpark that draws very well but is not expandable to meet major league standards
sounds like colorado springs' triple-a team is going to move to san antonio, though i'm not sure if that's contingent on a new park. there's currently a double-a club there that doesn't draw particularly well, even by texas league standards
i imagine any of those places could ultimately get a team if it were willing to build a stadium for free? maybe san antonio could get a package deal on the a's and raiders
― mookieproof, Thursday, 21 April 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
jaffe: http://www.si.com/mlb/2016/04/22/mlb-expansion-montreal-mexico-city-charlotte-portland
― mookieproof, Friday, 22 April 2016 19:33 (seven years ago) link
RIch W.: Expansion question: if two more teams are added, is Charlotte in the conversation?
Jay Jaffe: It sounds as though they’re certainly among the top choices. Based on Jayson Stark’s most recent column at The Athletic (https://theathletic.com/390737/2018/06/13/stark-how-mlb-expansion-coul…) and my own previous work in this area, it seems as though Charlotte, Portland, Montreal and San Antonio (or maybe Austin) are probably the top 4, not necessarily in that order.
JJ also thinks it would mean 16 teams in the playoffs, ughhhh
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 14 June 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
Our ManFredo has a list of cities
“Portland, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Nashville in the United States, certainly Montreal, maybe Vancouver, in Canada. We think there’s places in Mexico we could go over the long haul.”
https://deadspin.com/rob-manfred-says-he-wants-mlb-expansion-lists-six-pote-1827712616
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
id bite my arm off for major league baseball in vancouver
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 19 July 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
seems like a natural... they'd need something bigger than Nat Bailey from the get-go, of course
http://www.milb.com/content/page.jsp?ymd=20090505&content_id=40995160&sid=t435&vkey=team1
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 July 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Montreal can't afford it.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:34 (five years ago) link
i'm not sure how many of those places can support 81 home games a year and i'm even less sure that any of them will pony up public money for billion-dollar stadiums
manfred's trying to play cities off against each other, as ever, but i think/hope we've reached the point where cities are no longer fooled. no one now thinks 'we need a big-league baseball team to be a big-league city' and all anyone has to do is point to miami to see how things will work out
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:56 (five years ago) link
dear god
The official logo unveil for the #OrlandoDreamers. Williams says now we have to see how much the community is willing to embrace this. pic.twitter.com/nmNzi64Ktz— Joe Kepner (@JKepnerWFTV) November 20, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Dave Dombrowski, former GM of the #RedSox, is moving to Nashville and joining Music City Baseball, LLC, in an attempt to bring #MLB to Nashville. The city is hoping to land an expansion franchise or have an existing team relocate to Nashville.— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) July 6, 2020
― Andy K, Monday, 6 July 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link
no pursed-lips photo? smdh
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 July 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
Justin Timberlake 'thrilled to be involved' in group working to bring MLB franchise to Nashville
rip the 10k-seat five-year-old minor league stadium the city will spend the next 30 years paying for. it's important to be Big League
― mookieproof, Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:09 (three years ago) link
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/the-playoffs-arent-too-big-the-league-is-way-too-small
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
that article was kind of all over the place, but it is fun to ponder
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link