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The Orioles are not moving out of Baltimore. Nashville is one of six locations they may someday get a team through expansion. However I believe Portland and Montreal are the two most likely to get a team next.
Ooo Montreal? I don't think. That would be a tough sell because they had a team and it left town. IMO cities that lose teams, it's difficult for another to return. The final few years the Expos were in Montreal, their attendance was terrible. Literally nobody attended the games.
Ooo Montreal? I don't think. That would be a tough sell because they had a team and it left town. IMO cities that lose teams, it's difficult for another to return. The final few years the Expos were in Montreal, their attendance was terrible. Literally nobody attended the games.
With good cause. Ownership sold off all quality players, the product was abysmal and Olympic Stadium was a dump.
Ooo Montreal? I don't think. That would be a tough sell because they had a team and it left town. IMO cities that lose teams, it's difficult for another to return. The final few years the Expos were in Montreal, their attendance was terrible. Literally nobody attended the games.
As I stated in a previous post once having a team in the past is insignificant. Especially when it was over 15 years ago. DC and Milwaukee went through a span with no team. The Rays already had proposed playing half their games in Montreal, but leasing issues with Tampa shot that down. My guess eventually the Rays will end up in Montreal as soon as their lease expires with Tampa.
As far as any expansion, that is a long way off. Most MLB teams have been suffering in attendance over the past several years, pre covid of course. Of the 6 possible expansion sites named by MLB (Portland, Vegas, Charlotte, Nashville, Montreal and Vancouver) Nashville is close to the bottom if not on the bottom of that list.
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So.. This is interesting.. Would Charlotte support an MLB team?
Of course, they support the Panthers well.. and 'Charlotte' is a large area. They'll draw people from Upstate of SC, Western NC/Eastern TN and even up to Raleigh.
They have a LARGE number of minor league teams around there, tho. You've got the AAA Knights, the A Intimidators (Though I believe there was a name change there recently) And then you have teams in Asheville and Greenville..
But.. the closest team is Atlanta. And if they wound up in the NL, you'd have a natural rivalry with Washington and Atlanta.
And, the Knights were the highest attendance minor league team 4 of the past 5 years. But that's only 8000 some odd fans.
I'm willing to bet that Washington and Atlanta would probably oppose it.. But I do think Charlotte could support a team.
I live here and I completely disagree. It might do okay for the first few years but unless the team is the 2nd coming of the 90s Yankees or something, expect a lot of empty seats especially in the dead heat of summer. People from Raleigh, SC, TN, etc. probably won't really care one way or another, or at least it won't be enough to make up any difference when the locals stop showing up.
Nashville is pretty much in the same boat as Charlotte but they do have one thing going for them, and that is the tourism sector. A Nashville-based team will have the benefit of the bachelor parties and people coming to party, a Charlotte-based team won't.
I don't think any of this matters though, I don't forsee the O's relocating.
As I stated in a previous post once having a team in the past is insignificant. Especially when it was over 15 years ago. DC and Milwaukee went through a span with no team. The Rays already had proposed playing half their games in Montreal, but leasing issues with Tampa shot that down. My guess eventually the Rays will end up in Montreal as soon as their lease expires with Tampa.
As far as any expansion, that is a long way off. Most MLB teams have been suffering in attendance over the past several years, pre covid of course. Of the 6 possible expansion sites named by MLB (Portland, Vegas, Charlotte, Nashville, Montreal and Vancouver) Nashville is close to the bottom if not on the bottom of that list.
I don't think a team in Montreal would draw, even if they had a good team. Honestly I don't think Canadian sports fans care about baseball. Montreal would care more about a second hockey franchise. And Boudrant brought up the stadium, unless it is renovated, I doubt the city would get a new one. The Nationals got a new stadium within 5 years of coming back to DC.
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Charlotte would make more sense than Nashville.
This is one crazy thread though. Orioles arnt leaving the best ballpark in baseball
Disagree, neither is a slam-dunk but Nashville would be a popular road trip for visiting fans and people coming to town for the bachelor and bacherlotte parties.
I live here and I completely disagree. It might do okay for the first few years but unless the team is the 2nd coming of the 90s Yankees or something, expect a lot of empty seats especially in the dead heat of summer. People from Raleigh, SC, TN, etc. probably won't really care one way or another, or at least it won't be enough to make up any difference when the locals stop showing up.
Nashville is pretty much in the same boat as Charlotte but they do have one thing going for them, and that is the tourism sector. A Nashville-based team will have the benefit of the bachelor parties and people coming to party, a Charlotte-based team won't.
I don't think any of this matters though, I don't forsee the O's relocating.
Well, i'm not talking Baltimore.. I was thinking more an expansion team.
I'm in Greenville.. And an awful lot of people from here go to Atlanta for Braves games. we support the Drive here pretty well, even though it's a Boston affiliate. Only reason the G-Braves left was stadium issues.
Again, my worry there is just the fact that there'd be so much competition. Obviously, the Knights would relocate. But just about every little town here in the Southeast has a minor league team. And it's a whole lot easier to justify spending $10 a ticket vs whatever a MLB ticket goes for nowadays (I paid $70+ for pretty generic seats at Wrigley 10 years ago)
When there's only 8 NFL games, you can justify ticket prices that high.. 81 MLB games.. Tougher sell.
I won't say you're wrong. Because I can see what you're saying coming true. But.. I look at bit more on the rosier side of it.
Expansion is such a hard sell. I don't see it right now. Not when you already have 30 teams.
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