2 Minor League Teams in Dayton ?

What could another team in Dayton be named?
..... whether that be A-Advanced, AA or Trip-A.
And by the way, yeah, they can double up with the A-club in the Dragon's Layer.   Logistically, this would leave for a lot of coordination and fixed dates.   Coordination between the International League and Midwest League might get tricky.

Why do I say any of this?  Dayton has a top-ten attendance figure Minor League baseball wide.  And that is as an A-ball club.  They could house a Triple-A team with their attendance figures.

Dayton or Ohio based team names ?

If a second team were simply deemed "Ohio" in name, easy justification for other places of play could occur, not limited to Great American Ballpark.  The Ohio Players could grab naming rights from the band to include purchase of mandatory playing of songs.  Or just name them Players Club.  I like Pros or Oaks a lot.

The attendance leaders in each classification of Minor League Baseball and their overall numbers were: Triple-A -- Indianapolis Indians (641,141), Double-A -- Frisco RoughRiders (470,003), Class A -- Dayton Dragons (554,638), Short Season-A and Rookie -- Vancouver Canadians (239,527).

MiLB.com

Cleveland and Milwaukee Should Team Up for Great Lakes

Bucks and Cavs Country footing for soccer.
Brew and Tribe Nation teeming for hockey.

MLS and NHL

Great Lakes

I definitely would love to see this for hockey.  Two saturated markets teaming up for something I think that they deserve.  And so why not for MLS (and playing in existing structures) for what would amount to a home showing in these two cities essentially once a month?  I know.

How badass does this name sound?  Armada

Or Fleet ?  Or Great Lakers SC.  Shippers.

preseason for Great Lakes ?

....what about these cities in the Great Lakes region?  And Syracuse or the like?


Great Lakes SC. Major League Soccer. By Popular Demand?

East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL   (click)

City Combo'Nations for some Sports Tag-Travel Team thoughts

Florida Panthers Rebrand. Southlakes Fisherman. Co-location 

Cinci and Indy

MLS Before more Mutiny or Rowdies in Tampa

Favorite FUTURISTIC Franchise Names

Some bloggystyle schemed up future franchise names

   in the Big Five Sports

Omaha-Dakota Diesel on the ice.

Southlakes Fishermen in NHL Atlanta
West Coast Ghosts in Seattle and Portland
East Coast Whalers could swim between Hartford and Hampton Roads (Norfolk)

Detroit Arsenal

Cincinnati or St. Louis Shield taking on Chicago Fire

Armada docking in Cleveland and Milwaukee

Bootleggers United camped in Nashville and somewhere in the Carolinas.

Texas Divided or Excited

North Country Lumberjacks swinging from Vancouver to Montreal
Louisville Lumber Company
Carolina Cougars or Colonials; Carolina Lumber sounds good too.
Tennessee Trucking
West Coast Whales in Portland and Las Vegas
Oaks in Oklahoma City or Omaha or the Pilots (for both)

What about Toronto Trucking or Nord Force football ?

Oregon Railroad   Express ?

Kentucky Downs

Cincinnati Aviation for hoopin' hardwood
Aces in Vegas
Ohio Flights

Whatchoo' got ?

click:  Favorite Franchise Names and Uniforms

Damn Shame MLS is its Own Thing instead of Our Thing

bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2018/02/02/could-nippert-stadium-still-be-a-permanent-option

Damn Shame MLS is its Own Thing (Stadiums).........sometimes........... instead of Our Thing


I can sum it up in a few words:  Empty seats and the Environment.
Multi-use year round feels good for the likes of Paul Brown.  Locally shortened to PBS, FC Cincinnati hasn't played there like the pro teams play in NLF stadiums in Portland, some Patriots and like the Seattle Sounders do.

Nonexistent

Sure, beautiful depictions of the stadium seem exciting for the skylines, but Nippert has the historic charm for all kinds of football in Cincinnati.  More butts in more seats more often.  In a business play to demand respect, Major League Soccer demands a layer of its own now.  Butts not in seats as Mother Nature redundantly weeps.  Reinventing wheels in many o' municipalities.

Nineteen-Fifteen

 

Will MLS embrace a "West Coast" Moniker Brand? Be the First

The Chivas should've been moved to Las Vegas Part-Time: 

West Coast Diamond Club

 

 

Most Transportable Existing Team Names

Most Transportable Team Names for the Big Times

Big Bucks

The Tennessee Oilers temporary decor was weird to me,
                  but maybe it just served as some context for a new black gold Texas tea.

Let's see if I can hit the big ones... .
                                             Because, let's face it, Lightening and Thunderbolts can be anywhere, but I'm talking about some fans may want.  For instance, country folks are country-wide.

Milwaukee Bucks
Clippers ships even in river towns from Pittsburgh on down to the likes of Louisville.

The city of Charlotte, coined the Queen City alongside Cincinnati (of the west), would adore becoming the Carolina Royals.  Two stadium hold-out cities, one being a Florida city with decent television dollars but hideous attendance, have very portable franchise names.  The Athletics have been in Kansas City and Philadelphia before.  Nature's Rays reach all of geography.  Newer name and an easy change, all the same.

Lions and Titans and Bears, oh my.  And do go along with baseball or football, the Cardinal has many variations throughout the western hemisphere.

Ducks and Stars can have nearly any landing.

Sporting or Fire has a nice ring for all cities.  Along with the firefighting implication, the Boys in Blue convey awesome alliteration in towns with a sound like St. Louis or Cincinnati Shield.

Throughout my futurist possibility blog, 

I cast the name Truckers as a highly desirable one of mobility.

Minor League Saturation issue and a Second Franchise for your City

And so let's pretend we would house some triple A clubs in the same yard as the Big League one and have to name it.

Let's say MLB expansion happens for Portland and Montreal.  And we can say there might be a saturation problem in MLB as far as AAA cities are concerned, the map being tagged up, saturated.  Having the new big club in Portland and Montreal probably would be a little too much too soon to have their Triple-A club in town as well.  A new trip-A team would likely sit better in a seasoned city of a big league club.  So Montreal can have the Louisville Bats and the Reds can club up at Great American Ballpark with the Cincinnati Lumber Company big league affiliate.  Sounds badass to me.

Team names spit-ball list in the Pacific and the International League (AAA)
MLB East

Cincinnati Outlaw Reds.  Or maybe Cincinnati Lumber Co.
Cleveland Engines
New York Metros
New York Crankees
Boston Colonies                                                              


Philadelphia Submarines
Pittsburgh Navy
Miami Guppies
Atlanta Railroad
Chicago Midways                                                                   

Chicago Southsiders
Milwaukee Trucking
St. Louis Gatekeepers
Toronto Bluebirds
Baltimore O-birdies
D.C. Americans
Tampa Moonlighters
                         Montreal Expos and Louisville Bats affiliate

Teams in the MLB West and the Pacific League

Royals from Jesters
Mariners from Pontoons
Giants from Wee-Lads
A's from Couch-Taters
Dodgers from Trollies

Padres from Choir
Angels from Nuns
Diamondbacks from Dinos
Rockies from Wagons
Rangers from Cow pokes
Astros from Flyers
Twins from Brats
                                   Portland Pilots and Reno Aces farm club

  But hey, you may want to envision your own town's team something cool instead of San Diego Choir, Oaktown Couch-Taters or Denver Wagons.

Favorite Franchise Names and Uniforms

Best of the Big Five Sports

                                                     Colorado Rockies
                                                                               It just feels sooo right.

Minnesota Timberwolves

 

New England Patriots or Raiders ?

Columbus Crew

Minnesota Wild

Uniforms

Maple Leafs beautiful blue

fathead.com

Bengals super stripes

Celtics pinching


MLB is tough, so many similar sexies: guess I'll go with Tigers

Crew   for the double whammy selection this post


 

Renaming the Native Americans

And by Native American mascots, I'm not referring to the Super Ancient Chinese over the land bridge, or white people like Vikings.

Indians

Braves

Redskins

Blackhawks

=

Cleveland Blue Sox

Atlanta Mavericks

Washington Warriors

Chicago Icehawks

NHL cities before Cincinnati

Kansas City?  Toronto II ?

What's their team name?
Great Lakers?  Queensmen?  Rivermen

click: A good name for the newest Cincinnati team

Other team names across the leagues I'd love to see are Diesel, Truckers, Road Warriors and Highwaymen,

MLB International

Should I put Beijing instead of Honolulu ?

What year ?  2060 ?  80 ?
And probably Bogota down there instead ....

Map and Chart of Pro Baseball

Accounting for league shift of the San Antonio Missions and Sky Sox of Colorado for next season.

Professional Leagues in collaboration with Major League Baseball; its affiliates.

Below map is dotted with additions in my imaginary MiLB pro clubs expansion
see the envisioned leagues to accomodate future MLBexpansion: Tiers of Minor League Expansion

Modified map taken off of, and MLB teams from ParMar Media. par-mar.net

Some map placement skewed to accommodate MLB stadium markers

To Be Continued:  See Independent Leagues (non-MLB affiliated)

An Alternative to MLB 2050. See it before the year 2030

In the MLB 2050 post, I alluded to baseball back to Montreal, in Mexico based in Monterrey, and Portland and Charlotte.

I could see more cities.  It's a vision in Vancouver with BC Place already in place.  Let's make baseball in Montreal even more English by splitting time with Vancouver.  And let's just go ahead and not call them the Expos.  I've blog beat it before:  the 'Jacks.  The North Country Lumberjacks and a hardy Canadian northmen (northperson) history.

North Country Lumberjacks. The 'Jacks !!!

I could see Portland and Las Vegas having the West Coast Athletics.  I want to see the Florida Marlins again, but also in Tampa.  That multi-nodal action for A's and Rays would be 30 teams in the MLB.  Just like now.  I just removed and rebranded them ol' Rays.

But with Charlotte and Portland settled, which places will be geared up by 2030? 

Because that's what I'm aiming for.  2030.  A meager dozen years away.

Nashville         
Indianapolis setting a more solid buffer for Cards, Cubs and Reds Country.

CONVENTIONAL SET

What can this look like for you?

But what about more unconventional two-places teams like the Jacks?

  Major League Baseball in Vancouver and Montreal. Make it one team. North Country Lumberjacks. The 'Jacks !!!

Southland Band:  Take care of the likes of Nashville, New Orleans, Memphis and Charlotte with one team for now.  Vacate west coast Florida and makeover the Rays.

Midland Pilots could play in Oklahoma City and Omaha with 2 thirty thousand seat ballparks.

West Coast Wolves, with the Boise Pack, Salt Lake Pack, on and on.  But those seem more towards the year 2100AD, ....or am I wrong?

MLB 2050 post

Tiered Map of the Next Expansions: MLB

XFL Coming Back ?!

Not the No Fun League

yahoo.com/news___Vince McMahon's XFL

wikipedia.org/wiki/XFL

The 2001 and only season, Summertime. 

The big market cities and Orlando 

were never part of the CFL American teams, which was a short run.

NHL Expansion before Saskatoon

Salt Lake City ?  Cincinnati ?  Kansas City ?  Cleveland ?  Milwaukee ?

Click:  Saskatoon Saskies sound good ???

NFL before Oklahoma City

Oklahoma Oilers or Ranchers ?

Basketball and Football Minor Leagues are BIG

I'm basically referring to NCAA.

Though I sing praises for the NBA Developmental League (G-League now) and its future.
The NFL needs to follow suit, and perhaps we need to drop the first year requirement for illiterate kids to attend higher learning just in order to showcase their skills on television.  And television money.

But NCAA baseball, MiLB baseball, minor league hockey as well as NCAA hockey are not that big.  Well, I mean, March Madness and football on Saturday is hard to compete with.  And pro baseball in general makes good money, though not too many television bucks.  And well, baseball might not have room for more than just one big time darling in the form of MLB.  Ditto for hockey.  Check out some of the below posts.

Let's say 32 Minor League Teams for NFL

Minor League Football. The Better Idea?

About College Baseball and Hockey Getting Bigger

 

 

North American Premier Basketball League

wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Premier_Basketball

I'm rooting for the Ohio Cardinals, I guess.

2018 it begins

Who could some MiLB affiliate cities be for the likes of Charlotte MLB ?

I would love a Carolina Cougars MLB team.

The Charlotte Knights could stay the club for Carolina while the Chicago White Sox get themselves a new AAA affiliate.  And that team could be at Comisky.  The Southside Sluggers sounds peachy.

The Myrtle Beach Pelicans play in the A-Advanced Carolina League as an affiliate of Chicago's north side Cubs.  Have another A-Advanced team play there, this time as the MLB brand for Carolina, as the South Carolina Coogs.  Or perhaps the East Coast Cougars and, in the spirit of my blog beat, do some time sharing the stadium up in Wilmington, Delaware.

For Double-A, in the Southern League, that stadium MLB built at Ft. Bragg could be a team.  I like the sound of the North Carolina Jumpers.  And for the A-ball team, playing in the same spot, can be something to the tune of the Fayetteville Troopers.

They can put a Rookie League Cougars team in Florida in the Gulf Coast League.  ....Or, like a MLB Portland team could do,.....a team in the Advanced-A Pioneer league.  I like Cheyene, Wyoming.  No teams in Wyoming yet.  I like the sound of Wyoming Truckers.

For the most part, I kept it Carolina.

Marlins beat the Braves on this day at a brand new stadium at Ft. Bragg.

click: Who could some MiLB affiliate cities be for the likes of Portland MLB ?

NFL Map Future Movement

Omaha Diesel?  What about Kentucky Downs?  Oklahoma Oilers?  Birmingham Herd?  Toronto Force... .

NHL Cities before Halifax

My vote is Austin before, if ever, Houston.  Halifax, and any of Canada really, is most deserving of an NHL franchise.  I wish the East Coast Whalers are reborn, co-located in Virginia Beach and Hartford.

Also, it would be neat for Halifax, in the meantime, to share as (greater) Toronto's second team.  For such a two-place team I like the name Atlantic Travelers.

                                                  Whatcha' got ?

Who could some MiLB affiliate cities be for the likes of Portland MLB ?

What about AAA Vancouver ?  Canada doesn't have as strong a farm system that they used to.  Heck, half their Major League Squads are gone, albeit one of two.  And the east balance to Portland in the west is thought to naturally be the large area of Montreal.

And given the saturation out there, could two baseball teams share a stadium?
Could the likes of Cincinnati give up their Triple A affiliate (Louisville) and then house their own (aptly named) Cincinnati AAA club at the major league park ?  The triple-A Cincinnati Outlaws.

5 to 6 teams per expansion club.  The prez of minor league baseball also noted it could be from 10 to 14 teams in a 2 franchise expansion.

nesn.com/2017/12/milb-president-thinks-mlb-expansion-will-happen-but-not-imminent

This might sell my case for some affiliates to be in Mexico and Canada.  And why not Puerto Rico or even, someday sooner than later, Cuba.  There aren't really any untapped baseball cities yet.  Portland has a suburb ball club small ball farm club called the Hillsboro Hops.

Maybe the Triple A club could be in Monterrey or Mexico City.  Their double A team could play in the major league Portland ball yard.  Get a minor league affiliate in Tucson.  That city seems underrepresented in pro ball, a bridesmaid to Phoenix.  The Hillsboro Hops short season A team could also house the A team and another developmental A club.  They can play their Portland Roadies club in the California League.
                                                                                               What do you think ?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Minor_League_Baseball_leagues_and_teams#Independent_leagues

Home to Hillsboro (Portland) Hops Class A team

click: Population Combos for tag teams ? 
click: Who could some MiLB affiliate cities be for the likes of Charlotte MLB ?

NBA Expansion: Have you seen this '04 study ?

link:  usfca.edu

Indications for Louisville and San Diego.

Could've had the Clippers again.  My drum beat on this blog has been call them the West Coast Clippers.  Could even share with the city of Seattle. 

MLB Series in Monterrey 2018 May

Baseball getting a big time taste of Mexico and vice versa.

mlb.com/news/dodgers-padres-to-play-3-games-in-monterrey

I have posts about an envisioned Sur Toros team.

Capital City Go-go and Colorado Eagles Minor League Teams

The Colorado Eagles will finish up their stint as an ECHL team, with promotion to the AHL.

Wizards have their G-League team now:

                    wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_City_Go-Go

No Two Teams - MLB

Mets

White Sox

and Angels.

Though pretty much in the same metro areas, we'll leave out the Athletics and Nationals.

Would the Mets go to Buffalo and keep the name ?

Buffalo

Would the White Sox shove on over to Indianapolis ?
Angels California again up to Sacramento or Portland ?
        West Coast Angels part-timing in Oregon...?

Or is there some move and rename ?

Change the backdrop to the Buffalo city scape ?

Would you be Cool with the Crew to Cincinnati? And maybe calling it Ohio ?

And showing up in Columbus and Cleveland for any or all exhibition.
I've blogblabbed about it before.

But now I can do it with more conviction.  I love the logo.  I love the sound.  I love Austin.  But I love Ohio much more.

Let Austin start anew.  Let Ohio have its anchor legacy for the league.  Let Texas Republic be their new thing.

But I'd only be for this if the owner got gone.

NFL Cities before Louisville

And what an awesome franchise the Kentucky Downs could be ... .
              and I also feel Louisville can be next with Portland (or something like San Diego again).

Not to say I'm not a little iffy on this one.  I couldn't decide whether to entitle it "....cities before OKC, and I could give the edge to Louisville over OKC because the Okie State already touts the NBA.

If not for Toronto, honestly Kentucky Downs is my favorite for next expansion with some Portland franchise.

2017 ProSportsExpansion Blog Year in Review

Two pretty portraits painted this year.  Towns with no major league teams in my youth now have more than one, and two pretty portraits being painted into reality this year.

Las Vegas.  You have arrived for a happy recap for the second year in a row.  Good time to surely be a Vegasy Vegaser Vegasite.  Or a resident awaiting to visit your home team around your new town, or during 'vacay staycay.

And speaking for former California former-future-future-former teams, LA robbed the Chargers.

On a blog poll of mine, the thought hadn't even occurred, neither was the buzz that much existent for Nashville landing soccer,.... and so it wasn't even included that poll.  2020 and 2022 for Major League Soccer

Map of Major League Looks for MLS

And the Big Five places like Minnesota.
Capital of the South, monopoly of the South, Atlanta, have been without their Thrashers for awhile now.  If they'd only take the Panthers or Hurricanes and listen to my Southlakes Fishermen calls for brand turf expansion in claim.

Places like Cincinnati and Nashville, that long ago not even on the expansion lists, blasted or bumped the likes of Detroit and St. Louis to the back of lists.

I think the MLB Commish' tilted to Montreal and Mexico: The Biggest Calls for New Big League Teams when it comes to baseball.


Still holding my breath for the last holdout since Las Vegas was landed (and doubled up):  LOUISVILLE.  T'will be basketball.  Might come sooner than later since it looks like the NHL and Sonics will be beckoned and resurrected to new digs in Seattle.

And yet still:  what about Quebec City?  Canadian dollar need to get stronger ?

Will the Crew leave Ohio for Austin??  Now that Nashville got a team and Sacramento Republic has showed financial worry, does FC Cinci got a shot after nailing pro teams like Chicago?

What will the likes of Major League Soccer say for 2018 ?

pieced from inblew@deviantArt

MLB Cities before Omaha

Sacramento, Salt Lake City or Vancouver before Omaha Lincolns.  Oaks ?  Pilots ?

It's a long line.........but Omaha Diesel could be your first big time team in hockey.

Panthers Franchise to Louisville or Toronto ?

And could this turn into better news for a Carolina major league Futbol team?  Ya' know, if they maybe needed to take over the "old" digs.

charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article192927389.html

The markets of those Kentucky and Canadian towns are the top two markets in the east, without question in my mind. 

 Tiered Map of the Next Expansions: NFL

The MLS 30

But what do you think ?

Detroit Arsenal ?  Arizona's team in Tucson ?  Are the Crew off to Austin ?

Does this Map Help your Expansion Argument ?

Does this map lend to any of your or my arguments,........or does it detract some in a way?

Where should the next Big League(s) teams be and why?

Map:  An Economic Geography of the U.S.:  From Commutes to Megaregions
                                    ( journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0166083)
or
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed