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A Dodgers move to San Antonio?
Although Austin and Portland would be more appropriate destinations for the Dodgers given how both have more Angelenos than L.A. does nowadays, San Antonio's a bigger market than Austin or Portland and will assuredly get a MLB team before Austin.
While I think Portland's a great city for any league, based on how great the Trailblazers' fans are, San Antonio should be the first to get any team because Portland's only notable venue is the 22,000-seat Jeld-Wen Field, which is primarily used for football and soccer anyway.
Cleveland has no hockey while Southern cities without any hockey heritage have NHL teams? The Great Lakes region is the traditional hockey belt of the US, Cleveland needs an NHL team.
I don't know how good the football team plans to be, but apparently good enough to scare away NFL and UFL teams.
...wha?
No, I was saying that the Alamodome now has a tennant with this team.
Of course UTSA isn't gong to scare away any pro league teams or even be good at all. This is going to be the program's first year in existance. They'll be lucky to win A game.
Why does Green Bay have Wisconsin's football team? It's not exactly neighboring Milwaukee.
Seriously?
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Originally Posted by Hamtonfordbury
Where is Kansas City's NBA team, St. Louis?
Kansas City doesnt want an NBA team. This is the college basketball capital of the country and an NBA team would never be able to beat out the Jayhawks for attention. They would always play second fiddle to them.
Plus, the NBA is a trash product anyway. We dont want that crap in our city.
An NHL team is what we are missing.
What you seem to fail to understand is that cities do not have sports teams. Owners own sports teams and they run them in certain cities. It all comes down to ownership. If an owner or ownership group gets their **** together and wants to start a team in a certain city, it will likely get done eventually through either relocation or expansion.
So, all these cities that do not have teams do not have them because they do not have a billionaire wanting to operate a team in that city or they are waiting for an expansion or relocation opportunity.
A Dodgers move to San Antonio?
Although Austin and Portland would be more appropriate destinations for the Dodgers given how both have more Angelenos than L.A. does nowadays, San Antonio's a bigger market than Austin or Portland and will assuredly get a MLB team before Austin.
Ownership. Size of the market has little to do with it. It's where the owner is that matters.
A Dodgers move to San Antonio?
Although Austin and Portland would be more appropriate destinations for the Dodgers given how both have more Angelenos than L.A. does nowadays, San Antonio's a bigger market than Austin or Portland and will assuredly get a MLB team before Austin.
Not sure why Portland is always mentioned as a good MLB market....they have a AAA team that they don't support. I don't think MLB should expand anymore (in fact I think they should contract the Marlins and Rays), but if they were, I'd say Buffalo would be a good city to exapnd, they have always drawn well for AAA, even drawing over a million fans at times.
Not sure why Portland is always mentioned as a good MLB market....they have a AAA team that they don't support.
They don't anymore, the Beavers left town last year.
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