Nutsiest Big League Towns?

Or just say "weird".  Or just unconventional, unusual, or business unusual.

Green Bay
Jacksonville
San Jose has the Earthquakes and Sharks.  Perhaps.  For my Ohio peoples, it would be as if Cincinnati had all the sports and was kind of so saturated that they'd put a few of the teams in Dayton.  San Jose is magnatized to the Bay.
Columbus.  Like San Jose, they have the hockey and soccer.

Mountain Music?

Utah  I don't find a team for SLC as odd as their desire to not be unique, yet odd.  SLC represents a weekly venue also.
Orlando?  NBA Magic and some future soccer lore. 
Chivas was weird.

Are all of those weird?  But I like 'em.  Did I miss any?

What's the next thing?  Is it the above mentioned or something new.  Business-wise is apparently a gamble for the leagues and their love of Vegas.  Louisville won't be weird ushering Kentucky into the big leagues with either one of the footballs or the NBA.  I wish hockey would usher in Omaha/Lincoln or the Dakotas.  Or Austin.  The "Texas Ranchers" would draw crowds from Houston but they should be housed a majority of the time in Austin.  One of my favorite ideas is a MLS team for Appalachia.  The Bootleggers could play in Charlotte and Nashville.  Yeah, the Appalachian Bootleggers.

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NFL uniforms mashed up with NBA counterpart

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Teams in Pittsburgh city all share the same color scheme.  Cincinnati's minor league hockey squad embraces the town's mainstay (on at least an occasion).  Does this spark any ideas for you?





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Jacksonville London Alliance. Is this the next NFL Expansion Team?

bbc.com/sport/american-football

The owner admits it's the Jaguars home away from home.

The Jags are the only franchise to do without its "rightful?" and fair entitlement to 8 homes games to match its 8 away (10 in all incl. preseason).  My vote throughout the blog has been either an all southern brand in places like Louisville, Little Rock and Birmingham, or moving a little more internationally closer over the Lake Erie pond to Toronto.

But if any market in the world has some pull, even if it's a long pull, it's London.  Is Jacksonville being conditioned for an inevitability?

Could a team simply known as "Armada" exist in multiple ports?

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Indianapolis is next east city to get NHL, right?

Besides Canadian places like TorontoDos and QC of course.

You can throw other major league city names into the hat like Cleveland and Cincinnati, but the B-Jacks house the heart of Ohio.  And Indy is that gap between C-bus and Blackhawk holds.

Kansas City has the arena beckoning something but the Blues make their claim in state.  Atlanta can kiss as much grass as it wants,...they had their shot.
Welp, that's about as much east as there is to be talked about.  Out west, I see glaring holes of Portland and Seattle.

To settle my Midwest love, I've chattered about a Great Lakes team.  It could be housed on the north coast in Cleveland and Milwaukee and/ or even spread more in the likes of Cinci, Indy and Syracuse.

A regional team in a couple places as home isn't new in the big leagues.  The Kansas City-Omaha Kings were before Sacramento.  Look it up.

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The Big Six? Say Volleyball. Future in Pro Sports Expanding

I blabbed a Big Six blog post before.  Last year it said lacrosse.  America has a lot of field sports with strong popularity.  And the court sport is basketball.  How about another court sport?  And it can be brought to the beaches and bowling alleys stronger than soccer.


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Big Two Cities: MLB and NFL ...and What's Next

          San Diego
          Cincinnati
          Baltimore
          Kansas City (technically)...if we're thinking more Big 4 than Big 5 quite yet.
          Seattle, same

Which one of these guys is going to get something next?

With an NBA expansion, popular thought is that Louisville is the next sure market in the east.  And a balance would be struck next out west.  A revival of the Sonics brand seems logical.

 Is it Seattle Sonics for the NBA?

For the record, I think it's a shame Seattle and Portland get passed over 
for more flailing desert hockey.

Some would think it to be KC luring a struggling NHL club to relocate to their new house.  

Kansas City NHL?

With that new arena, and no NBA in St. Louis, they might garner the NBA.  Seems more b-ball than ice hockey to me.

SD, Cinci and Baltimore seem to be on the outs in this climate of market saturation and their proximity to existing team markets.  I wish the Clippers would've tag teamed Seattle and San Diego as the West Coast Clippers.  That would've brought more stretches to the coast that reps an entire Golden State.

Out of all on this list I believe Baltimore doesn't have a shot at anything, though an MLS expansion with the Baltimore Brigade has a ring to it.  Doesn't fire a shot though.  It's in the Balwash Corridor,....I mean the beltway.  D.C..  Above the belt.

Which out of the three land major soccer first?  I say Cinci.   "Armory" has a ring to it.  Wouldn't an I-75 battle with the Detroit Arsenal be swell?

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Southlakes Panthers NHL Relocation and Rebrand. The Best Expansion

For the National Hockey League, Atlanta's attendance obviously wasn't the best.  They are no more.
Florida is pretty typical Florida:  little to no butts in seats.  Butts next to no butts.

But the two put together?

20 games each city?  Would that work for a southern embrace of ice hockey?  Absence making the heart grow fonder?

fishingfury.com

Go big or go home.  Or go camp.
I would even go as far as a rebrand in the south.  I'd call them the Fishermen.

Sure, the league wants a Florida market like a California market.  But why not a whole southern market with occasional ice time in the stretches of Little Rock, New Orleans and the like?  Rivalry with Carolina and Nashville would be sweet.

Really, I'm for a lot of moves with the Coyotes and Panthers.  Austin Coyotes sound good?  Texas Coyotes?  Share ice-time with OKC and call them Midlakes Coyotes?  The Pack (pact)  Ooohh, Omaha!  So many options.

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NFL to a 34 Team Expansion?! But Who?

           los angeles                            Portland?

                    Las Vegas?
                                     Toronto?

LOUISVILLE

                                                                                                                   San Antonio?
                  BIRMINGHAM

                                    boise, SLC, OKC, little rock, omaha, austin, iowa

And what about Vancouver, Montreal, El Paso, Memphis, Albuquerque and Orlando.  And the like.

Throughout my bloggerations I give my nod to LA, Portland, Vegas, Louisville and Birmingham ....and that's without expansion.  That would leave room for numero 33 and 34 to trounce around a place like Little Rock and OKC.

The equation is simple really.    = Multiple Homes for the Team

Think "Midland Cattlemen" for that OK Arkansas tag team.

Granted, I feel my tag-travel-team model works for the more-games sports other than the footballs, but imagine the West Coast Raiders in LA and Portland or Vegas and the Southland Jags in Louisville and Birmingham.

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Ohio Flights NBA Expansion Team. House it in Cincinnati AND Dayton

It would be the best two coliseum team in the NBA.  One of the arenas already exists and it will be NBA/NHL caliber when renovated, and its renovation is set.
usbankarena.com/whatsnextcincy

Build another 50 miles up the highway in Dayton and the Cavaliers have balanced competition on the other side of the state.  It wouldn't be a bad idea having the Ohio Flights in Columbus and Cinci, or C-bus and Dayton for that matter.  Dayton-Toledo isn't a terrible idea at all. 

I'm for a compromise to house the team in Butler County in between Cinci and Dayton in the heart of the CinDay Corridor.

Sound like a good idea?  Too close to a Louisville expansion?  I'm for two-town teams.  Two teams are in the big sports for Ohio but not hockey and b-ball.  I've talked about ways for that including a Great Lakes brand for a NHL franchise.  That drumbeat of multi-located home-camps is throughout my blog.

And to wrap this post up with full disclosure:  I find it only fair for Louisville's pro brand of basketball is more deserved, with my heart and my business mind regarding market saturation.

What do you think?

See samples:
The Anaheim Mighty Ducks of Cincinnati. A travel-tag-team
Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex  
Columbus Crew C-Bus Cincinnati - A new Major League Soccer arrangement. MLS Expansion in general
Yankees Hockey: The Great Lakes/North Coast Hockey Team. A New NHL Franchise and Concept
New NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Louisville. Tri-State
An NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Kansas City? The Arenas will be Ready
ECHL or AHL Should at least have a Team for Seattle/Portland. Dayton/and somewhere someday 

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The Best 32 Team Expansion. But Way More Than 29 Places. Strong Case for Baseball Nations

Adding baseball to Mexico, Vancouver, Montreal, Portland, Las Vegas, Nashville, New Orleans and Charlotte, and expanding by only two more teams.  Sharing a team in more than one city is how it can be done.  T'would be a regional powerhouse, a powerbrand if you will.  With LA, NYC and Chicago hogging 6 spots of 30 teams, even in a 2 teams expansion there won't essentially be 30 cities of MLB outside of suburbs, grapefruit and cactus.

I'm talking more than 8 new MLB cities.

The news teams are the North Country Lumberjacks (does Northland sound better?)
and the Southland Band.

Here are the newer old teams.

Tampa-Monterrey Rays
West Coast Athletics

North Country is housed and camped in Vancouver and Montreal.  Averaged out they could be a central team.  A heavily renovated Olympic Stadium and BC Place is in place.  40 games a piece.

More than 8, I say.  Yes.  Ever heard of the California Angels?  I'd have the Angels playing in Sacramento also.  The easiest move would be to have the Oakland A's non-existent and just splitting home games between there and Anaheim.  If the Yankees played some play in Buffalo, it'd be bonkers north of Yonkers.  What about the Rangers playing also in El Paso, San Antonio, Austin or San Marcos (as a compromise)?
The Monterrey Rays or Sur Toros could be in existence if the Florida Marlins split time in Tampa.  A weekend series (with a Monday off) in Mexico City for the Sur team would be a special site.

Can't you see it?

Jays v. the 'Jacks

Piece of the Rays logo

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NFL Los Angeles Looks to Be Back. Two Teams Again? NEWS

foxsports.com.au/us-sports/nfl/nfl-owners-meet-to-decide-future-of-rams-raiders-and-chargers-and-possible-international-expansion

If the San Diego Chargers can't be SD, at least make them the California Chargers.

I'm for dumping St. Louis instead of northing' the Chargers a hundred miles.  And with international chatter, the NFL is looking for those overseas television viewership dollars.

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

Which big leagues are going to land in which cities?

 Short list was a previous post.  The additions, generally more medium or less considered (perhaps sports saturated) cities, are highlighted.  This of course is my unscientific deal, for almost every sports market is considered economically saturated for expansion.  But the NFL and MLS are weekly events which are certainly doable.

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

Portland and Charlotte come to mind for some sports, too.  Baseball for Charlotte.  Hockey for Portland
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.
Alabama:  NFL
Albuquerque/Santa Fe:  alignment with a team in El Paso for a regionally represented team?  NBA'll give you a glance.
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.
Boise:  NBA
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.

Detroit Arsenal sound like something to you?

Hartford:  share an NHL team with Virginia Beach

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

Jacksonville:  no

Kansas City: NBA or NHL?  NHL or NBA?  I'm guessing NBA before St. Louis.  But wouldn't a Showme State Express be a good share wrapping the state?  NBA, because I could see hockey in Austin first for a Texas deemed team.

Las Vegas:  along with Quebec City, it seems like a sure bet for NHL play.  Soccer is next.  Everybody will be there before end century.  Probably the same thing will be said of Portland.
Little Rock:  one of the footballs, not sure whether major or national.
Louisville:  I believe the NBA will eagerly honor this void for the next two team expansion.


Memphis:  I don't see it.  But wouldn't it be awesome for a Tennessee Major League Baseball squad that plays 40 home games here.
Milwaukee:  NHL
Montreal:  baseball

New Jersey: a baseball team a long time from now
New Orleans:  baseball a long time from now


Oklahoma City:  NFL
Omaha/Lincoln:  NHL 
Places like Ottawa:  an all-camped Canadian franchise in any big sports league.  After all, television dollars and regional sports networks is where the money is.  Imagine the population of Canada to count on.

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.  Love you long time.

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.

Toronto:  hockey two.  Is calling the team "Ontario" too out of bounds?  Is suburbia chopped liver?
Tucson:  Arizona's brand of not-so saturated Major League Soccer

Wichita/Topeka:  sandwiched in between Denver and Missouri teams.  My travel-tag-team suits you in a regional Midland alliance with the likes of Little Rock and OKC.

Vancouver:  beisbol
Virginia Beach/Hampton Roads:  share an NHL team with Hartford.  Might get an NBA team.

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

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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
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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

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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.

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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.
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