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re: If there was anyway a situation could attract a MLB team to NO...
Posted on 4/23/19 at 8:14 am to Giantkiller
Posted on 4/23/19 at 8:14 am to Giantkiller
Nola don't want no ranky arse minor league baseball team dude
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Posted on 4/23/19 at 9:57 am to StickD
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to NO... by StickD
Pittsburgh Pirates
Population: 302,407 (2017)
PNC park
Y'all are out of your minds.
The Pittsburgh metro area is twice the population of NOLA's.
Pittsburgh is more affluent than NOLA.
Pittsburgh's park is beautiful and iconic.
You're not getting the Pirates.
Posted on 4/23/19 at 1:28 pm to BeepNode
I think it will be tough in the modern era to introduce a major sports franchise in a city that isn't a particularly important business city. While San Antonio has a better size argument than NO, I think they would have the same challenge.
Posted on 4/23/19 at 2:20 pm to devils1854
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I dont know how the facilities are for the players in New Orleans, but that had to be a major reason Houston left to go across the country to Fresno.
This is not how it happened. The Astros moved their AAA affiliate to Round Rock, Texas in 2000 when the contract ended. Affiliate contracts are two year deals. After 2000, Houston moved the affiliate partly because Round Rock was a new franchise and was owned by Nolan Ryan.
That move made sense for the Astros, but it destroyed or started the destruction process for the Zephyrs. The team was still decent and the ball park still new then, but were then affiliated with the Nationals, followed by the Mets.
THEN the Mets pulled out and we got stuck with Florida and now can not get rid of them. It has been a disaster with the exception of Giancarlo Stanton parking one out on Airline Highway in the Marlins-Zephyrs exhibition a few years ago.
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