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There's plenty of time when Ut football and baseball aren't in season that baseball is. That was my point. And if a major league baseball team is in the playoffs during football season, people will support both.
Austin is too small for an MLB team anyway. It's TV market size is in the 50s. If it got any of the four major sports, it would only get one. NBA is out. San Antonio is too close. NFL is out. Dallas and Houston runs the state and if any other city got a team, it would be San Antonio and the NFL easiliy takes a back seat to College Football in Austin. MLB is the hardest sport for a market to support and Austin has no chance of ever getting that one. That leaves the NHL. Austin is FAR down the list of any expansion probabilities.
UT Football ends in Early January. I would bet people would attend Spring Football more than a baseball game in April. Baseball season lasts from late February to June most of the time for this program. So that leaves two months in the hottest time of the year for an MLB team to be supported before UT football begins again. Not a chance.
Austin is too small for an MLB team anyway. It's TV market size is in the 50s. If it got any of the four major sports, it would only get one. NBA is out. San Antonio is too close. NFL is out. Dallas and Houston runs the state and if any other city got a team, it would be San Antonio and the NFL easiliy takes a back seat to College Football in Austin. MLB is the hardest sport for a market to support and Austin has no chance of ever getting that one. That leaves the NHL. Austin is FAR down the list of any expansion probabilities.
UT Football ends in Early January. I would bet people would attend Spring Football more than a baseball game in April. Baseball season lasts from late February to June most of the time for this program. So that leaves two months in the hottest time of the year for an MLB team to be supported before UT football begins again. Not a chance.
OKC was a sooner football town until the hornets and then later the thunder arrived. Baseball games aren't always played on Saturdays. There is plenty of chance. Austin is one of the biggest cities in the us without a professional sports team.
chicago bulls and milwaukee brewers are quite a bit closer than cincy and indi.
I can get from my house on the NE side of Indy metro to downtown Cincinnati in 1:45. No way most folks in Chicagoland can get to downtown Milwaukee in that amount of time, or vice versa.
I can get from my house on the NE side of Indy metro to downtown Cincinnati in 1:45. No way most folks in Chicagoland can get to downtown Milwaukee in that amount of time, or vice versa.
According to Google Maps, Indy to Cincy is 110miles, and Chicago to Milwaukee is 90. That's city center to city center. Traffic slows you down, but that all depends on when you make the trip. Plus, heck, you can grab the Hiawatha (train) to Milwaukee and go from Union Station to downtown MKE in an hour and a half.
But if that doesn't light your fire, how about the Cubs and the White Sox? Or the Mets and the Yankees? They're way closer than Cincy and Indy. Proximity alone is meaningless.
I voted Charlotte, New Orleans, and Indianapolis. That way each city would have a team in the big 3 sport leagues in the nation. Although, IMO, there are 5 including NHL and MLS.
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Media market has nothing to do with size. If San Antonio was the only big city in the state it would have a bigger tv market. For example, Indianapolis, Salt Lake City, MPLS. Being the only major city gives those cities more of a share of the market.
Indianapolis has a bigger TV market than San Diego. Salt Lake city is half the size of S.A. metro yet has a slighty bigger TV market. Austin being so close is the reason.
I don't think you get it. Pro sports only want butts in seats or marketing deals (people watching games on TV). You need a substantial population to do that, and SA is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT 7th in population for any reason except municiapal city population. That's all there is to it. Otherwise, if it was truly overlooked and was 7th on the list of cities that should have always had pro sports, how dumb are these business people, right? Think about it.
But if that doesn't light your fire, how about the Cubs and the White Sox? Or the Mets and the Yankees? They're way closer than Cincy and Indy. Proximity alone is meaningless.
Well, duh. There's also more people in Chicagoland than in Indy and Cincy metro combined. There's more people in the NYC metro than those three combined.
Well, duh. There's also more people in Chicagoland than in Indy and Cincy metro combined. There's more people in the NYC metro than those three combined.
Right. So why are you two talking about driving distance like it means something?
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