re: Montreal, Mexico City, and Charlotte are potential cities for MLB expansion

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North of the Lake, the bridge is near 24 miles in length

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what is weekday rushhour traffic like on that thing?

distance as well as driving back after drinking is the problem.

If park is in metairie somewhere, not so bad, not sure what options there would be downtown. Chalmette at old 6 flags site wouldnt be terrible. Would need to do a minute park type retractable roof type park.

I know they've been mentioned, but man I wish the situations in Puerto Rico or Cuba were better. Would be awesome with how baseball crazy those areas are. Plus wouldn't be far travel if Miami isn't a big deal


For realistic options, seems like Montreal would make the most sense. Canada showed big time support for those recent Blue Jays playoff teams.

Surprised I haven't seen more people mention Nashville in this thread. Also surprised at the lack of Vegas talk...not that I think it'd be a good idea but it seems like that's always in the mix for any professional sport expansion team



ETA: San Antonio would surely have plenty of fan support, but I don't think it's realistic with 2 other Texas teams and all the politics involved with that (just like NFL). Put it on the side of town closer to Austin and then you also have the San Marcos area not far

Do geography much?

I think Montreal should get a team back. I would say no to Mexico City and I don't know how much support Charlotte would get for a MLB team. Charlotte is really not a great sports town. I don't think anybody cares for the Hornets (esp. after they left the first time) and the Panthers get a lot of support when they are doing very well. Some other cities that I wonder about are: Nashville, Portland, Indianapolis, New Orleans, or maybe Oklahoma City. Seeing the Las Vegas has drawn in a NHL and NFL team, I wouldn't put pass someone trying to get a NBA or MLB team there in the future.

MLB has exhausted all the markets capable of supporting a franchise. It's a different ballgame when you have 81 home games. Expansion would be idiotic when they were considering contraction just 16 years ago.

Mexico City is an unapologetic shithole. No way that happens.

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Mexico City is an unapologetic shithole. No way that happens.

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It could happen

But Mexico City is not a shithole. It's actually a very impressive city because it can handle almost more people in one place than anywhere else on the planet.

There is crime like any big cities (and this is Top 5 population city in the world) - so...crime is a given.

MLB might not pull the trigger but they'd be crazy not to - unless they think the populace is just going to keep going over the border and being Dodger fans.

So Trump and MLB...decisions.

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Give a team to Montreal... they can't help their previous owner was scum

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This and let it please be the Expos. I hope they Rays and A's don't go anywhere, though. I enjoy both franchises. I even enjoy the dumpster fire that is Tropicana Field.


I honestly wish there were more domed stadiums in baseball. Metrodome, Kingdome and Astrodome were all great. In fact, didn't the Expos have one too?

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Portland can actually have an NFL team - I believe that. It's a tremendous small sports city like S.F. and only one or two hundred thousand difference in population.

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dude
they don't play football in SF. they play in Santa Clara county

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