Say My Name. Which Sportless City Gets Which Sport Next? A Short List

 Which big leagues are going to land in which cities?

East to West, the list mainly includes Louisville, Austin and Las Vegas.

Portland and Charlotte come to mind for some sports, too.
Los Angeles football is a no-brainer.  But let me guess the next chance for the others.

Atlanta:  hockey won't be here (back again) soon along with the melt of Houston.  I wish the Southlakes Predators would be their tag-team share.
Austin:  it'll likely be MLS but damn if the NHL doesn't see the wisdom in this hip town over a large hot Houston one.

Baltimore:  the ambiance of that town spells NBA.  But I would lean for a MLS rivalry first.  Rocket di Baltimore.
Buffalo:  Two is good for you.  But I love that big time baseball ready stadium.

Cincinnati:  hockey or MLS.  NHL or MLS???  Or NBA?  There's a majorly renovated coliseum.  I'm a hometown kid.  I don't know!  Going to say MLS or hockey.  MLS or hockey.
Cleveland:  NHL
Columbus:  Damn.                                       OHIO
Would the town of Toledo vie for MLS before Detroit would land it?  "Ohio Divided" sound like a cool name?  I've blogged about it.

Indianapolis:  MLS.  Why can't the Ohio hockeyless cities along with those in Indiana and Wisconsin have a Great Lakes NHL tag team?

Las Vegas:  along with Quebec City, it seems like a sure bet for NHL play.  Soccer is next.
Louisville:  I believe the NBA will eagerly honor this void for the next two team expansion.

Milwaukee:  NHL
Montreal:  baseball

Nashville:  tough one.  Say baseball.  But before Charlotte.  With my model as demonstrated in previous post, yes.  How awesome would FC Appalachian Bootleggers be?

Pittsburgh and St. Louis:  Ummmm, Major League Soccer
Portland:  I would go with the NFL soon, but Los Angeles is looking more like an expansion, so I'm actually seeing them for hockey, probably before baseball.

Salt Lake City:  their best chance seems like a hockey ambiance.
Seattle:  NHL, though it seems they'd be the sure-bet balance to a Louisville NBA expansion in the east.

Vancouver:  beisbol

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If NYC Gives Up a NHL Team

I'm a fan of the Whaler's name, and not necessarily Hartford.  But something between the Bruins and NYC teams could be of use on the East Coast.  Stretching down coast, Hampton Roads of the Newport News Virginia Beach area would like to be put on ice.

In the theme of my Regional Team camping model, why not have shared Connecticut-Virginia encampments.  Get rid of the Islanders.  Unless, ....unless Seattle wants them.  Or repackage the Islanders as the Portland Whalers.  Or the shared West Coast Whales that land from Portland into Vegas every now and again.  Every handful of years in Honolulu.  Annually in Anchorage.

I don't care for the Brooklyn Islanders.  I like the idea of Whalers, Whales or Great Lakers.  Think of the North Coast Great Lakers or Fleet or Coasters of Milwaukee and Cleveland.

Should we go North, East or West with the Brooklyn based goofiness and Big Apple redundancy?

UK Daily Mail

I wish the Panthers would move.  Or the Coyotes.

Other mentions of mine have been the Predators being shared in Atlanta.

Take a look around and tell me what you think.

East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL
Midlakes Mustangs NHL Expansion Team
Florida Panthers can be ridiculous. Co-Locate the Team. Rebrand. Southlakes Fisherman
Yankees Hockey: The Great Lakes/North Coast Hockey Team. A New NHL Franchise and Concept
West Coast Whales NHL Team in Seattle, Portland and Las Vegas
and other posts such as an Austin-Las Vegas share called the Cattle Drive.

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Is Canada and Las Vegas All the Expansion Talk? Look at Hockey AND Baseball

reviewjournal.com/sports/sideline/mlb-commissioner-discusses-possible-expansion-las-vegas
and
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/denis-coderre-montreal-expansion-mlb

As with the current feeling of Tor2 or Quebec City hockey paired east to the Las Vegas west as a hockey calling, eastern Canada rebirth and Sin City are getting baseball murmurs.

Is this just all mediocre markets and talk for more teams?

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"Spain" vs "Boston" Basketball

Real Madrid playing the Boston Celtics.  We shall see how that turns out.
The quotation marks in the title denote the mercenary flavor of Boston and Madrid's players.

theguardian.com/sport/2015/sep/18/real-madrid-nba-basketball

Is it in the same spirited flavor of a Premier League MLS matchup.  The viewership could provide more groundwork for being the first American League to stretch over the pond for regular play.

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If New York, Chicago and Los Angeles Gave Up a Baseball Team

          Give up the Mets.
          And Angels
          Cubs or White Sox?  That's tough.
     These cities hog up 20% of the league.  But ...
To where?

Often the talk of "should get a team": Portland and Charlotte.
Las Vegas.
Nashville.
Indy
Columbus
Sometimes New Orleans.
New Jersey.  It would've been an easy'ish change to the New Jersey Mets had there ever been an issue with building a new stadium in tight NYC digs.
And Brooklyn.
Montreal.  Le yawn.
San Antonio, OKC, SLC,
Havana
Monterrey
Mexico City

If it had to be done, here's the smartest way:
Charlotte White Sox.  The city is already an affiliate.
Portland being called the West Coast Angels.  Think exhibition in Honolulu or Vegas.
Should I rebrand the Mets or should I move them to be the Las Vegas Mets?
                  or Southland Band doing time in Nashville and New Orleans.  Southland Metros?

Making any sense?

I'm for more cities having teams.  And more leagues.  Like Lady Leagues.

WMLB and my Lady Redlegs v. the San Diego Madres

WMLB Team Names   <-----check out links

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If the Giants or Jets Might Leave New Jersey City

The Portland Giants.  How's that sound?
Think trees when  I did that?

I know, it's the sin of stabbing an original NFL team.  THE original one left.  Just a thought on spreading the love.

I'd be more for the Portland Jets for such synthetic, yet still accurate jealousy.

Las Vegas Jets?

Or.

Or Toronto Jets?  The Canadian Jets?  Imagine them playing ball, repping' all of Canada in Vancouver (BC Place) and Toronto (Rogers Centre) for a Seattle and Bills and American rivalry.  Boom and shakalocka.  Ratings.  The big bucks are in television now anyway.

Which city, if any would deserve the love shared?

Of course, being the guy I've been on this blog, I'm all about the West Coast Jets playing part-time in Portland and then Las Vegas.  How perfect would that be.  The Jersey Jets moving to the other coast to land two new NFL cities.


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Oddity Triple-A Baseball Cities

To me anyway.  Maybe to many.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-A_%28baseball%29 

The not so typical "big city" triple A teams, don't you think?  So by calling them an oddity what I really mean is that they're not a big city and somewhat in line for a future big league franchise, such as perhaps Indianapolis or Charlotte.

The not-so big cities near Big Time Ball.

Allentown, PA (Lehigh Valley).  Share the love with a territory name.  Love it
Moosic, PA (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre)

Gwinnet.  The Braves of suburbia Atlanta are their AAA team.  I'm jealous.  Seemingly expansion moves into their own suburbs.

The Phillies, Yankees and Braves Trip-Alpha affiliate logos below.

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Could Who Dey Land Ever Become the Kentucky Bengals? Or the Ohio Bengals?

I'm fairly sure I've talked about some of this rubbish before, but there's portability in that B-Logo, unlike the Chicago Bears one thieved off my Redlegs.  With Jerry Jones's cathedral, and perhaps a want to keep up with the Joneses, I can foresee some kind of leverage being weighed by the Brown family for the weekly venue of football to be played on the other side of the Ohio River someday.  It could be Louisville, but if the franchise were deemed the Kentucky Bengals, a pilgrimage is not even a stretch for the likes of Wildcat and Cardinal fans to unite and gather.  I could even see a Meadowland'esque deal being struck with the Cincinnati name in tact.  The Greater Cincinnati Int'l Airport is already in the old Kentucky home.

Though I much prefer and Kentucky Downs franchise someday expanding into Louisville.  A Downs, Colts, Jungle clash that would be.  As far as trash talk, I've even mentioned the Bengals in Mobile, Alabama.  But there, I'd prefer a share of the Southland Jaguars.

Dayton could make a grab for a football church place of gathering.  Could help boost a Flyers program and birth a Wright State one.  The Ohio Bengals would instantly birth the likes of Columbus riders into the brand for years to come.  New turf could beckon the Bengals and Brown family a better butter deal.  And Cincinnati would have the best High School and mid-level college stadium venue in the country.  Talk about Christmas, with all of them Red seats and them Green seats downtown.

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Best 100 Miles of Big Baseball

Indianapolis to Louisville to Cincinnati to Dayton to Columbus
            So, just to name a few in all of this guessery, you have the Pirate's Indians, the Bats, Reds, Dragons  and Clippers

Scranton to Philadelphia to Allentown to NYC with Brooklyn

San Diego to Anaheim and LA to San Bernadino (Inland Empire)

D.C.?                   The Bay?

Chicago to Milwaukee

Boston to Rhode Island to Maine                                

Buffalo to Rochester

Atlanta area?

Tough decision but I'm a biased bastard:  On top is my tr-state 100 mile stretch of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.

WHO AM I MISSING, if any???

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Major League Soccer in Rochester and Cleveland

Imagine a team called simply the Great Lakers

and they play in both cities.



True to my name, that's what I'd like to call two birds with one Stone.
And if you think it's a dumb idea for such a team for the likes of the above and/or Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Cincinnati, by all means accept my apologies by viewing below and clicking for a bigger view. 

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Eyeing Major League Soccer. A Cincinnati Goal

courier-journal.com/story/sports/soccer/louisville-city-fc/2015/09/03/cincinnati-wants-mls-team---short-term

I have bloggerated it before in this blog: Paul Brown Stadium and the Brown's field are good places for an Ohio Divided team to play the day after tomorrow with the proximity of Crew Country.               

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Soccer in Cincinnati #MLSCincinnatiSoccer

What to Do with a Two-Place Team's Empty Ballpark? Other Uses for Stadiums

Part of my nature misses the courtesy of playing baseball at the same place the football happens.  Vice versa.  Whatever.  But who can argue with the beauty and amount of seats clashing heads.  And I think at least now, surely the footballs can be in the same facilities!  Thanks Seattle.

citylab.com/cityfixer/2011/10/stadium-neighborhoods-alive-off-season

More fodder:  wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-purpose_stadium


Concerts, ...large gatherings (duh).  As told in the article above, ...bowling and hockey.  Snowpening day is a good one.  A dilemma of vacancy stretches from off-seasons to even minor league teams vacating.

While looking below at Soccer cheerleaders, what do you think some cool, perhaps irregular, uses for stadiums are?

Other perusings:
stadiummouse.com/stadium/economic.html

chsfield.com/about/ballpark-uses 

governing.com/topics/economic-dev/when-team-leaves-its-stadium-what-do-you-do.html 

Make Tampa part of the Florida Marlins

tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/st-petersburgs-tropicana-field-increasingly-eyed-for-uses-beyond-baseball

It is time for most of Pro Sports to vacate Oakland and Tampa

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Add "Nation" to the Jersey

Yankees
Cowboys

Is that all?

Maybe Steelers?
New York and Dallas?
That Pittsburgh mention makes my stomach curdle to the point where I don't care for this research to go beyond aesthetic.  What's out there?

But would adding "Nation" or "Country" to a jersey on at very least an exhibition tour, do more for the brand in terms of selling.  A Cavs game in Cincinnati....does that do the trick?  What about having Cavs Country jerseys,...is that helpful for someone in Cinci to embrace something that is actually Cleveland?

Speaking of another Queen City claim.  The south could use someone else to anti-monopolize baseball.

As a Cinci guy.  I would go for the Celtics touring town.  Not an inkling of anything else do I care for.  Loved Miller and the Pacers.  But how much does an urban kid care for race cars?

Any ideas?

NBA Europe Week. International NBA Sister Cities
NBA - If each franchise had to camp in two cities... .
Major League Baseball in Tennessee. How to beat out Charlotte for an Expansion Bid. New Brave King of the South

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With MLB Expansion Comes MiLB Expansion. Where to Play More MLB & MiLB Ball.

For simple math, say there are 80 home games.  So that's 40 home camp games per city for a two-town team.  Such a franchise might have some jealousy for Portland and Las Vegas (for my imaginary relocation and renaming of the West Coast Athletics), but it's better than nothing.  For the 40 games normally absent on an MLB schedule, baseball can still be played.

Triple A teams (wikipedia)

For something in the ballpark (figuratively and literally) of a 40 (normal) home game absence, a Triple A affiliate can represent some playing time in the "home away from home city".  So when the West Coast Athletics are playing home-camped in Vegas or on the road elsewhere, the Triple A affiliate could play in Portland.  They could be called the West Coast or Westward Warriors.  Or the Portland-Vegas Express.

Perhaps the drempt-up Truckers or Roadwarriors of Wyoming could be the West Coast affiliate.

Wyoming Truckers Team for MiLB. Or Maybe One for the Dakotas Also

So, let's say the league expands to 32 teams though.  

Let's say there's the East Coast Expos resurrecting bigtime ball in Montreal with a share in Charlotte.  It's talked about in my blog, but ....no no no no.  Let's say the North Country Lumberjacks are an expansion team for Vancouver-Montreal.  And the Southland Band is playing for more than just the camped Nashville and Charlotte homes with occasional exhibition in the likes of New Orleans and Memphis.  So, okay, all the South team cities just mentioned have minor league representation, specifically AAA ball.  So we'll create a Canada's Finest Triple A club looking like a Mounties brand for North Country.  At present, not much is going on the the ball team department way up north.  Nothing like the minor leagues used to be up there.  And perhaps we should consider something like a fictitious Monterrey Mexico Sur Toros franchise representing the Southland Band at high A ball.  Should we bring the Mexican League in on more North American minor league play.  The demographic is naturally growing anyway.  Perhaps Cuba and Puerto Rico for the East Coast Band?

worldnavigate.blogspot.com/2010/11/austin-toros-cheerleaders

 Monterrey Rays. Or Sur Toros? MLB in Mexico

That's my vote.  Minor League expansion with direct MLB team affiliate ties and a more international flavor.  

See samples:

Major League Baseball in Vancouver and Montreal. Make it one team. North Country Lumberjacks

Las Vegas Montreal Internationals Baseball. Major League Expansion Experiment

Puerto Rico MLB Team. East Coast

 

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