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re: MLB expansion
Posted on 5/29/23 at 11:30 am to GentleJackJones
Posted on 5/29/23 at 11:30 am to GentleJackJones
Las Vegas and Nashville
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Posted on 5/29/23 at 11:31 am to IcantBelieveItsNotBu
Why would Nashville work better than Charlotte?
Posted on 5/29/23 at 11:33 am to Paul Allen
Nashville support their teams better
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:21 pm to Paul Allen
Charlotte is larger and has more people but Nashville would support a team better. Just looking at Titans vs Hornets to see this
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:28 pm to IcantBelieveItsNotBu
NC is a huge baseball state. More so than TN I would argue. The problem will be converting generational Braves fans to whatever the franchise would be. I’m not sure you can accomplish that and then you end up with a Rays type of situation where the majority of people going to games are there for the other team 
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:30 pm to Tiger Ryno
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I despise expansion and the watering down of competition
Agreed. MLB and NBA both need to contract down to 24 teams.
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:35 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
I mean look at New Orleans, Las Vegas, etc... it is easy to convert "fans" when they have a local team to root for. What's harder is keeping them interested and coming back while your team struggles
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:44 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
NC is a bigger basketball state than baseball and they don’t support the Hornets.
Nashville meanwhile supports the Preds very well.
Nashville meanwhile supports the Preds very well.
This post was edited on 5/29/23 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:46 pm to justaniceguy
Yea. Nashville is going to get a team and maybe Montreal or Portland.
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:46 pm to IcantBelieveItsNotBu
I don’t know if it’s true that it’s easy to convert fans to a local team. I’m from Baton Rouge for example and have never cared about the Pelicans. I used the Rays as an example because they’re similar to Charlotte in that the majority of the town is populated with transplants. It would take a few decades and a generation of kids raised on the local team for the new franchise to really take hold because of the long time Braves fandom from locals and then whoever the transplants have rooted for their entire lives. Nashville is probably the better option as far having limited competition goes.
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:47 pm to LSUBoo
What is the point in moving from Tampa bay to Orlando?
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:47 pm to IcantBelieveItsNotBu
Las Vegas won’t be an expansion the As are moving there. It’s a done deal.
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:48 pm to justaniceguy
There is no point which is why it won’t happen unless Orlando really builds a stadium and Tampa bay doesn’t deal with the Trop situation
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:49 pm to justaniceguy
Exactly. It's 85 miles.
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:50 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
One redeeming quality about San Antonio is I am pretty sure most people would switch their allegiance immediately. Most “baseball fans” couldn’t name 5 players on their “favorite team”. If you ask 10 people their favorite team there’s a good chance you will get 10 different answers. But that’s just cause there is no local team.
This post was edited on 5/29/23 at 12:51 pm
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:53 pm to justaniceguy
I would be shocked if they added another team in Texas. It’s going to be Nashville and somewhere else that is a new media market
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:54 pm to BrainKellyRespecter
I would be shocked too
Posted on 5/29/23 at 12:58 pm to justaniceguy
Would San Antonio support another franchise? I thought I read the Spurs were having some issues.
Posted on 5/29/23 at 1:01 pm to TigerOnTheMountain
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The problem will be converting generational Braves fans to whatever the franchise would be. I’m not sure you can accomplish that and then you end up with a Rays type of situation where the majority of people going to games are there for the other team
Florida pretty much sucks at supporting all their teams. I don’t see it being an issue in Nashville (or Charlotte). Those people are Braves fans because they don’t have a team. Hardcore fans will stick with their team but casuals and kids will root for the local team and that’s plenty.
Posted on 5/29/23 at 1:03 pm to Paul Allen
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Why would Nashville work better than Charlotte?
I'm not too sure if it would be better, but from a tourist standpoint, Nashville is considerably more of an attractive city to visit and watch baseball.
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