Central
Texas Sidewinders
Central Texas with San Antonio & Austin have about two-thirds the market Dallas does.Next Professional Sports Expansion Franchise by Sporting Geography. Where should the next Pro teams be? Your town? Why? The Big 5 Leagues and even the minors. Relocations on the table. With your heart and mind. Let's toss around some ideas. Envision possibility at your place. Talk also about rebranding and travel-team-like co-location feasibility combinations. Spitball !
Central
Texas Sidewinders
Central Texas with San Antonio & Austin have about two-thirds the market Dallas does.2040?: Carolina Cats & Portland Talls
2060: Indiana Farmers & Oklahoma Pilots
Will the Expos ever reincarnate? Will Anglo and Franco ties be looser in Western politics in a Brexity-fragmented Euro-world kind of way, thereby Quebec blowing off baseball?
If my year 2040/60 panned out, below is what turf is staked.
The Ranch travel from Albuquerque to Bootleggers Utd. in Louisville this week.
Canyon against Bayou
PACOM in Honolulu, Oakland and occasionally Anchorage camped “home”. Represent.
Drive OK takes on Scout Platoon Idaho
Diamond Club @ Deisel
The Parade @ Indiana Infantry ground game
Intra-Canadian battle of Energy taking on the Flock. The Meece Flock fans bang the drums.Atlantic Fleet at tier 2 will have camped games docking at Norfolk or Charleston for the loser of the Sac Rep v. Austin FC. Winner of that takes on Great Lakes. Pitt goes down river to take on FCC.
Maybe relegation structure of two-tier league will usher in wider geographical inclusivity decades earlier.
Pretty much it wants more than 25k seats. It does mention higher scalability for renovating to accommodate more seating. If British Columbia wouldn’t stack up to even only 40 games, more seats can be stacked in Montreal.
What year could this be? 2075 or 2100…
Tennessee Stars vs. Utah Raptors
Carolina Cougarcats vs. Indiana Farmers
Louisville Lumber Co. vs. Omaha Oaks
Oklahoma Pilots vs. Portland Talls
New Orleans Parades vs. Orlando Gators (OG?) or Palms
North Country Jacks vs. Central Texas Sidewinders
For now, Portland, Orlando and Montreal need bigger league teams. Some of the other cities could have, and have sustained bigger teams like Trip-A before. Not shown, Richmond and Dayton has the attendance figures to sustain AAA. Austin or San Antonio for MLB?
In the previous post I had A.I. do Montreal’s rendering. I like the brand ‘Jacks for our North Country neighbors.
Expos, or call them Internationals.
I’m really about multi-nodal all-Canadian brands in MLB and the NFL, North Country and Norde Force.
The North Country Lumberjacks sharing time in 15,000 seat ballparks in Vancouver and Montreal. The triple-A squads can share the places.
Spoiler alert…a future post talks about how A.I. countered my notion with economic sense.
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| Raleigh |
They would name it Carolina, right? Please do not insert Star Wars Princess Laya meme. In honor of 9/11 and a billionaire jobless Islamic mayor of NYC voted in, who cares.
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| Memphis |
Butts in seats is the pastime’s prob these daze.
East of the Mississip’. Could they handle NFL?
Big league markets already exist. Toronto untapped. Buffalo would be fine.
West Virginia. Marshal and WVU fans enough? Maybe not. Steelers suffice.
Alabama. Auburn and Big Bammy bases. Something akin even to a Green Bay situation could work.
West
Iowa and Oklahoma tout more than one big program and much of those homeboy fan bases can come together, swinging a Saturday into the Sunday. Ditto for Utah and Oregon, even though SLC and Portland dollars are substantial market metros for twice a month.
Nebraska and Arkansas not so much. I’d like to hear a case for a 50 mile stretch of Omaha to Lincoln. What about Boise?
With hot talk of MLB expansion, you get my 2 pennies. Those pennies are Utah Eagles/Raptors and Tennessee Stars.

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| Added Colorado & Carolina. |
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| Eagle emblem needs work |
Columbia Beans in Carolina. Lexington Legends promotion?
New Orleans and Oakland might plainly be too black, like a riotous Baltimore stadium echo. Dare not pretend I’m off base. Yes, America is the individual. And it is group patterns. Math is math. Deficits are deficits. It’s 2026. It’s not excusable. Ok, so you want to be tribal and now let’s see how that attitude stacks for ya’.
What about rebirth of Honolulu as Trip-A and new turf in Alaska? It’s an airlift. Would the North Pole Nicks be a brave brand in Alaska or Canada? Alaska has never had MiLB.
Who do you see? Maybe Birmingham and Madison, WI. Open up some Dbl-A to Evansville?
The Reds could easily turn just up the road to Dayton and make that fanbase its Triple-A affiliate. Half the distance to their current Louisville affiliate. But also, could not the Ohio Reds just play at Great American Ball Park? There’s a 30 stadium solution right there. Ecologically friendlier.
Georgia Braves take on the Lake Erie Guardians. Or just Ohio Guards. Bronx Yankees take on Queens Metropolitans. Dallas baseball Cowboys.
Probably decades down the road for the congestion to cozy up to that. So who are probably decent AAA cities now?
Montreal and Portland. Probably Ottawa. Definitely Orlando, FL or Dayton, Ohio. Richmond, VA. Evansville, Indiana might be more for Dbl-A.
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| Boise |
Someday New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi maybe. San Antonio. Boise.
Coming soon: MLS Pittsburgh vs. Alberta
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| Pioneers or Frontiers your pick? |