Jackson, MS needs a baseball team

Have you followed the post 1960s era history of Jackson, MS?

You chose poorly. Should've moved to the Coast, broseph.

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Yeah I know all about it. What's your point?

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They have much bigger problems to figure out than a lack of a minor league team and because of demographics issues there’s not much chance a minor league team would want to move there.

They got a less polarizing mayor so that's worth something.

They did alright in the 90's with the Jackson Generals, so it can be done (again).

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Yeah the Jackson Generals in Tennessee is an entirely different organization than the Jackson (MS) Generals.

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They currently have nothing and getting a double A baseball team a second chance is fair. They have a legit stadium in Pearl. Don't care if it's minor league Athletics. I love baseball. Someone rich with connections act.

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Didn't an independent minor league team start playing at Trustmark Park after the M-Braves left?

ETA: Yep

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They got a less polarizing mayor so that's worth something.

They did alright in the 90's with the Jackson Generals, so it can be done (again).

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Not sure what the Jackson mayor has to do with baseball in the region. No one’s playing in Hinds ever again

They’re realistically cooked as a minor league metro. Their last 4 seasons they were the 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st least-attended team in AA. That's not good. The inexcusable / disqualifying part is they are the affiliate of the unanimous MLB team of the region, which is a boon few minor league markets get to experience. It should have guaranteed the M-Braves solid attendance in perpetuity. There's no reason to assume another team could even equal the apathy people felt for them at the end

Maybe in a decade they can build something off 55 in Madison where more of the discretionary income is (like a northward march to Marietta 2.0) but that metro deserves a cooling off period. They didn’t take care of what they had

It’s a suburb of a dying metropolitan area and the thread is titled “Jackson, MS needs a baseball team”.

Mobile lost their team and they’re actually growing on the eastern shore over there.

To pull a team you need a strong area to pull from and/or a big corporate sponsor.

3 years ago I was in Jackson for a week and went to 4 games in that week. There was NOBODY there. Jackson has much bigger shite to worry about than minor league baseball - same for NOLA(although name change may have sunk NOLA).