D-WNBA League

WNBA's D-League
Is UConn the developmental league?  Maybe with Tennessee?

Just do it.

What kind of open geography do you see in the map?
12 current teams and some defunct ones in the big time.

wikipedia

I'd like to offer up a team.  The Fever's Cincinnati Cold.

Now I'm not going to pretend to know the business of it, and yet I'll assume the closer the minor club is to the major, the more feasible of a choice it is.

Do the Cleveland Rockers again.  Affiliate with Chicago.
          10 more to go:
Florida Scheme for the Atlanta Dream
Boston Bad Girls for the CT Sun
Iowa Farm Girls for the Lynx
Delaware Dare for the Mystics
Buffalo Gals for Liberty
            , or does Lady Liberty of Long Island work?  Philly Freedom?
California Queens (San Fran?) for Los Angeles
Starzz of ol' Utah but in Vegas for the Phx Mercury
Reincarnate the Portland Fire for the Storm
Austin Lassos for the San Antonio Stars
Dallas Diamonds ..or Diamantes

What say you?  Louisville instead of Cinci?  Louisville Crossovers?

Hypothetical Dream about MLB's Future. ..a blog blab

North Country Lumberjacks took on the New England Colonials in a World Series for the first time.  The 'Jacks did a number on Boston's National League brand, sweeping them 2 games a piece in Vancouver and Montreal.

Other such firsts of expansion team matchups in the 21st Century were as follows:

Oklahoma Pilots took on the West Coast Cobras, but fell in Las Vegas.
Monterrey Toros took on Dallas Texas Express
Portland Flights v. Charlotte Carolinas

Indianapolis v. Music City Mayhem brought about some contention for fans in NOLA.  While Memphis and Nashville got to host the game in person, New Orleans didn't get such a privilege, namely because of the Mayhem's failure to get to Game 7 in their loss to the Racers for game 5.

Florida Marlins were swept by the California Angels on a Tuesday night in Sacramento.

Any questions for all this questionable babble?

Futbol Blitz: Where do you see Your Stadium?

Unprecedented in the expansion sports world, this rapid Major League Soccer expansion is moving along fast.  And the likes of Charlotte and Cincinnati are of consideration.  Stretching from Sacramento to San Antonio.  Galore, much more.

But where do you see your stadium?

With a league urban 'insistance for locating a stadium, Cincinnati is limited geographically (terrain and population density).  With as much fervor as the fanbase has proven itself a hustle, I don't see why what's good for Seattle and Portland can't be the same for the Bengal base.  They have NFL stadium and tarps (leaving room for the environmentally-efficient and friendly mantra of reduce, reuse and recycle).  And expansion of seats with the roll of the tarp!  Dummies!

My town, Cincinnati, does a lot in way of supporting its club.  This will help translate the fan base into more of a major league one sooner than later.

fccincinnati.com/supporters-groups

And the stadium we use for our USL team, UC's Nippert, was the same place the Bengals got their footing before moving downtown.  Verbally, possibility has been stated north of their currently inferred temporary location for a new stadium, to just south of our border on the river, within walk and site.  Kentucky will be to Cincinnati what New Jersey is to New York City.

Rough Draft stage Moved fast in Cincinnati.  This is an unsolicited rendering .....    rcnky.com RiverCityNews

What are some choices in your town?
As urban as Carson City?

soccerstadiumdigest.com/2016/09/handicapping-mls-expansion-august-edition


Choices for a Charlotte Soccer Stadium

Neighbors a Consideration for Major League Soccer?

Of course.  It's a business.  Franchises and cannibalism is a consideration everywhere.  Also, factored in is the reality of market saturation these days.

Minnesota: no intrastate or like a St. Paul team or next door team.
North Carolina or Carolina:  ditto
Atlanta:  south of the capital.  NHL failure.  Charlotte or Raleigh probably deserves a squad more.

Sacramento:  has San Jose as a neighbor.
San Antonio/Austin.  Houston not far.  Dallas in market.
Miami.  Oh well.
Tampa not really far from Orlando either.
Cincinnati:  Columbus essentially right down the street in same state.

Detroit:  wide open.
St. Louis has its KC neighbor
Nashville is as wide open as North Carolina.

Las Vegas is a nympho newbie.
Indiana empty.
Arizona empty.  Of course I mean the MLS level.
San Diego.  While there is two LA, again.
And again.

si.com/planet-futbol/mls-expansion-prospective-cities-bids-28-teams

In line with much of my innovative expansion theme, one that is meant to fend of the hesitation for expanding boldly, I'll take an east/west exponential expansion look.  Looking east, I could see a Nashville and North Carolina combo-camp team.  I've blogblabbed it before:  Appalachia United Bootleggers.  Bootleggers United.

I could even do a Milwaukee and Cleveland Great Lakes brand.  Throw in Rochester.

Were I king, I could combine a combination of Sacramento, San Diego, Anchorage, Honolulu and/or Las Vegas as West Coast United.

Being even slicker, aside from considering the Arizona brand in Tucson, one could combine Arizona with central Texas or El Paso into a brand called The Wall.  Talk about inflaming passions.

San Diego butts up against a market, much in the way Cincinnati and St. Louis are?  Which markets and how much hardship does this put on them for their bids?

As reported by SI on its expansion city profile for Cinci:

Regarding Columbus, Garber said, “We’re trying to capture that soccer thing, which are neighborhood rivalries … Our rivalry games that we have are our highest-rated games on television and I don’t think—we’re not thinking about putting a second team in Columbus. We’re thinking about putting it in down the interstate so that you can get a bunch of people in buses and cars trying to prove that they’re better than their neighbor. Should we decide to come here it will be creative and of great benefit to [the Crew]. There’s no doubt in my mind about that.” 

Oakland. Losing the Big Three ???

Warriors,....come out and play eey yayah.
Come out in San Fran.  Shocker.

You'll likely lose the Raiders, Oaktown.
And yet I'm torn.  I'm all for taxpayers taking a stand against Billionaires getting welfare for their opulent coffers.

My idea of regional teams, essentially sharing a team between 2 camps, stemmed from the sadness of the prospect of Oakland losing the A's.  It's a real possibility, though MLB does not like that sort of thing, and thus understandably is dragging its feet on the franchise that was once Philly and KC.


So, why not share with Las Vegas part-time as the West Coast Athletics?  Ditto, Raiders.  West Coast Warriors sounds fab, also.



Get a smaller ballyard built by billionaires.  Make it all the more special of an occasion with a cozy ballpark.  Class up the joint with Sin City.

Unless you go Multi-Nodal, You Won't have a Home Team in your Lifetime

Unless you go Multi-Nodal, You Won't have a Home Team in your Lifetime..... in what you may want, ........like big league baseball.
And the children of your children won't have a team to call their own as quick as they could.

Let's look at an example.  Let's say the Athletics leave Oakland for Portland and Las Vegas, and it happens this way because MLB is unsure of both cities but figures that the West Coast A's playing 40 home games a piece in each place can work out.  And even better yet, let's say that after a few seasons, even with vacationers checking out their team at the road game in the resort town, the attendance figures waiver in the City of Sin.  Let's say that no a single game has unsold seats in Portland.

And let's say the West Coast apparel sales are exceedingly kicking butt.  MLB awards the ownership shares completely to Portland (previously MLB 4%, LV 48%, Port 48%).  Well, now the only dilemma for the Portland housed team, no longer camped in Vegas periodically, is whether to keep the team name West Coast A's or Portland A's because of the name Portland likely not selling as much clothing gear as West Coast's broad name inclusivity embodies.

Portland and Las Vegas alone, may have peoples that never see the big league claim in their lifetime.
That is unless the likes of them blaze a trail.

2020 and 2022 for Major League Soccer

freep.com/story/sports/2017/01/30/major-league-soccer-detroit

Two playing in 2020

Two more for 2022

Announcements later this year and some other time after that.

The rank:
"In order" according to Commish.....St. Louis, Sacramento, Detroit, San Diego, San Antonio, Austin and Cincinnati.
                      Then there's ....Charlotte, Indianapolis, Nashville, Tampa and Raleigh. So, Central Texas and central North Carolina are in intra-regional competition for the house.

Is that how it's going to be?  Lose the Chargers to boost a charge?

cbc.ca/sports/soccer/mls/mls-expansion-12-applications

MLS is like a horse sprint.  Your city can be in the map at no time at all.  Talk about a trade out brands of big league football like San Diego and St. Louis, or show your minor league support like Cincinnati.                                                                                            Out of the mentioned markets, Austin is brave turf.  Well, at least it's new turf.  Not a far drive from San Antonio, especially for bi-weekly attendance.  A Texas named team in San Marcos is smartest of compromises.