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Deezus, I suppose you're going old school and rightfully adding Salem metro to Portland metro.
I think baseball is diluted enough. The main reason I chose Indy is that I think midwesterners are earnest and non-cynical enough to get over their sense of loss even after the second group of stars hightail it to the major markets.
OU isnt in OKC is it? It's just like LSU in Baton Rouge and the New Orleans teams. LSU sells out for basketball, baseball, and football and the Superdome and NO Arena sell out frequently. One of the smallest markets too.
It's in OKC's metro. I think only 15 minutes away from downtown OKC. It's not like the LSU-NO thing. Not to mention that OSU isn't that far from OKC either.
Anyhow, several of the MLB's current teams are having trouble maintaining the league-mandated debt ratios. So if anything, the league is more likely to contract than expand in the short-term...
The teams named as having debt ratio troubles are the LA Dodgers, the NY Mets, the Philadelphia Phillies, the Chicago Cubs, the Texas Rangers, the Baltimore Orioles, the Detroit Tigers, the Florida Marlins, and the Washington Nationals.
Granted I'm biased as I grew up in Baseball City - St. Louis, but seeing a Toronto Blue Jays vs. NY Yankees was the most pathetic live sports experience of my life. I've never seen that many empty seats! Canadians simply don't care for one second about such an all american sport. They are far too engrossed in soccer and rugby.. (yawn..)
I think the Blue Jays would do well in San Antonio. Texas is a great state for sports fans and San Antonio is America's 7th largest city and 25th biggest metro area. Its one of the very few metopolitan areas that saw postive grown from 2000-2010. Its really amazing it only has 1 pro. team (i.e. Spurs) when quickly dying cities like Cleveland have 3. That said, the Jays could do well in Charlotte also, another growing city (2000-2010).
Bottom line: Get baseball out of Canada - obviously they don't appreciate it!
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MLB Will Reduce The Number Of Teams Not Increase Them......
