re: When does NOLA get MLB Team?

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N.O.'s economy is such that there just aren't enough folks with that much disposable money to support another big league team. Yes, we're solidly behind the Saints and do OK with the Pelicans, but you'd have overlapping seasons with basketball and baseball.

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And there's the biggest issue. Team revenue in MLB is tied primarily to the number of TV sets in the local market. NOLA just doesn't have the population base to compete. Any remotely good players would leave as free agents or have to be traded for prospects.

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They couldn't support a minor league team with cheap ticket prices and a brand new ball park.

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This is stupid. When Zephyr Field was first built, and the Z's were competing reguarly for championships, that stadium had a number of sell-outs on a regular basis, and was packed pretty often, especially on $1 beer thursdays and firework fridays.

People stopped supporting the team when:

1) Couhig left the ownership group, and the new owners were horrible
2) They kept getting saddled with crappy MLB affiliations
3) They stopped investing in the ballpark, which went from one of the nicest in the minor leagues to a dump.

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N.O.'s economy is such that there just aren't enough folks with that much disposable money to support another big league team

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That, and you would have to have a new stadium, which we also can't afford.

A well-run AA or AAA team, with a good affiliation, playing in a Zephyr Field with 10-15 million of upgrades, would do well.