What US City should get a Major League Baseball franchise next??

[edsg25]

Originally Posted by Jdawg8181

New York could use another team lol. Ok in all seriousness though, NY's football teams play in NJ so we really owe NJ a team of their own. They have a basketball team but it would be good if they had a baseball team too. They deserve it. (cant believe I'm a NYer not hating on Jersey lol)

I doubt if New York could use another team. It's not like the Mets aren't sadly playing in the shadows of the Yankees today.

Three teams would never work. What if NY got a third team. It would be back to the Yankees/Giants/Dodgers days. And those three teams in New York are what got the city down to one, rather than, like Chicago have two and keep them.

For in New York, for all the talk about the Dodgers abandoning Brooklyn, it was the Giants that proved far more why a three team city could no longer be. The Dodgers still packed the fans into Ebetts Field and were a good team. The only reason they bolted to LA is that NYC would not build them a ballpark. Of course, the irony was that only a few years after they left, the city did build a new ballpark for the expansion Mets in Queens.

The Giants were the third shell in NYC, the team on the fringe; they were unable to compete with the Yankees and Dodgers and the fans pretty much abandoned them. The Giants were going to leave that three team market no matter what the Dodgers did. Long before Walter O'Malley was flirting with LA, Horace Stoneham, the Giants owner, was viewing M/SP as the new location for the Giants; it was the Dodgers' plans to go to LA that got the Giants to SF since the league would need two west coast cities to make travel out there sensible.

[Howest2008]

Originally Posted by brajohns81

Either through expansion or relocation of a current team. There has been talk of relocating the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, the Oakland A's and the Toronto Blue Jays.

none because San Francisco Giants are blocking the Oakland A's from moving into San Jose CA , and all of the other market are either not Large Enought ( MLB has 81 Home Games A Year)....or the other markets don't have Rabit Enought Fan to pull 30,000 to 40,000 FANS Into The Stadiums...

[Jdawg8181]

Originally Posted by edsg25

I doubt if New York could use another team. It's not like the Mets aren't sadly playing in the shadows of the Yankees today.

Three teams would never work. What if NY got a third team. It would be back to the Yankees/Giants/Dodgers days. And those three teams in New York are what got the city down to one, rather than, like Chicago have two and keep them.

For in New York, for all the talk about the Dodgers abandoning Brooklyn, it was the Giants that proved far more why a three team city could no longer be. The Dodgers still packed the fans into Ebetts Field and were a good team. The only reason they bolted to LA is that NYC would not build them a ballpark. Of course, the irony was that only a few years after they left, the city did build a new ballpark for the expansion Mets in Queens.

The Giants were the third shell in NYC, the team on the fringe; they were unable to compete with the Yankees and Dodgers and the fans pretty much abandoned them. The Giants were going to leave that three team market no matter what the Dodgers did. Long before Walter O'Malley was flirting with LA, Horace Stoneham, the Giants owner, was viewing M/SP as the new location for the Giants; it was the Dodgers' plans to go to LA that got the Giants to SF since the league would need two west coast cities to make travel out there sensible.

Thanks for that but I was kidding about the NY thing. Ny def has enough sports teams. And yeah apparently ny doesn't want to build football stadiums either. I feel bad we throw our teams around jersey like a redheaded stepchild and then take all the credit. The jets and giants are not really ny teams they are jersey teams. We might as well give jersey a baseball team. Jersey junkies? Lol

[Howest2008]

I don't think that any American Cities should get a crack at a MLB team , but two Canadian Cites should warrant a closer look #1 Montreal couldn't handle one in the past " what about today #2 Vancouver Canada is a market that probably could handle a MLB team.....

[Neworleansisprettygood]

I think San Antonio, then Portland. Most of the other cities, including mine, are too small and/or already have two major league teams.