North Country ‘Jacks, Vancouver Canadiens & Montreal Expos

 North Country ‘Jacks be flapping in Vancouver and Montreal.

In Triple-A, respectively, so can the Canadiens & Expos. 40 big league games and some far, team squad action.

Montreal with Vancouver Viability

 A.I., citing MLB standards,  didn’t like my 15,000 seat aim at viability. 

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.

Should some of these just be triple-A towns?

Artintell maps suck so bad, missing O-birds and Brewers…Angels, Cubbies…

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?

Arizona Soccer Club vs. another swath of America. MLS gaps

 Toe-tapping markets. Dipping the toes in to see the temperature. Arizona and Appalachia’ish.

More MLB Canada. Lumberjacks play in Vancouver & Montreal

Any divisional alignment justified. Their affiliate clubs can share the two 15,000 seat stadiums. Ball hogs in Canada.

In the previous post I had A.I. do Montreal’s rendering. I like the brand ‘Jacks for our North Country neighbors.

Montreal could be Athletics Triple-A team ?

 Expos, or call them Internationals.

I’m really about 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.

Cincinnati Sisters vs. Nashville Cowgals

 

I like the Gals name.

WNBA specific arena in Cincinnati 

Austin Outlaws v. KC

 This ain’t your Stars and Mavs 

Which future MLB city wears green better ?

 Portland Talls or Indiana Farmers

Wish List Maps

 As seen in blog posts.

Charlotte or Raleigh for Big League Baseball

Raleigh 

More than 150 miles separate Charlotte and Raleigh, the 21st and 22nd largest media markets. And it seems to showcase Raleigh in the conversation more than Charlotte in 2026 chatter.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/09/29/us-media-market-rankings-bay-area-passes-boston-strong-growth-for-austin-west-palm-beach-okc/

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.

MLS Map pace?

Energy vs. Blue Collars

Infantry @ Armada

Cincinnati area arena…

 

Should it be Tennessee Stars in Memphis too?

Memphis

What happens to Nashville’s current AAA team and field? Part-time in Memphis? An annual game in the Smokies!?

Butts in seats is the pastime’s prob these daze.

Nashville rendering

Cin v. Pit on the hardwood someday t’morrow, them Dogs taking on the Squads

 Cinci Shield, Sorties, Squads? Pittsburgh Dawgs?

Tailgater States

Summonsing a Sunday after a Saturday might be a bit much. 

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?

Fantasy NBA Map adds

 Some teams mentioned in the blog before.

MiLB promotion or Reincarnation to Triple-A

With hot talk of MLB expansion, you get my 2 pennies. Those pennies are Utah Eagles/Raptors and Tennessee Stars.

Colorado Sky Sox could be a reincarnation. And we can look north to Canada in the Vancouver Canadiens and Ottawa Lynx  

Added Colorado & Carolina.

 

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?

Pittsburgh Blue Collars vs. Alberta Energy. MLS Gaps

 Would it be via a Whitecaps relocation? Don’t know, don’t care. Just at the drawing board.

Hockey Map imagined

Kansas City Showdown? West Coast Whales multi-town team instead? Thrashers bring-back?
 

Triple-A future

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.

Boise

Someday New Orleans and Jackson, Mississippi maybe. San Antonio. Boise.

Coming soon: MLS Pittsburgh vs. Alberta 

Do you like this NFL Map ?

Norde Force housed throughout CFL. Utah Stags. Louisville Horsemen or Riders?

Pioneers or Frontiers your pick?

Baseball Landscape. What’s your vote?

Leave a comment.

I spy some future Triple-A teams. But how far in the future? When will New Orleans retake the stage? N.O. Parades. When will cities stop being arrogant and do a sizable minor league team before preaching the leap for the big show. That’s a deal breaker for me. Do you think Canada should flex a nationally representative brand, and do so multi-nodally in the NFL and MLB?

Portland Talls a good MiLb or MLB team? Carolina Cougar Cats. Orlando Suns. Utah Raptors. Would Montreal Expos or Monarchs fly a triple-A rebirth?

On deck Detroit. & Houston. & Atlanta.

Big Four in Detroit. Detroit Arsenal just tickles the ear.

Missing hockey in a Southline roar (or meow) along Arizona, Texas and ATL. We’d say Houston but the ambience might be more for Austin. Probably more Canadians or waffles there. Probably just too many more soccer fans in Phoenix and Houston. Atlanta, that and Basketball-Americans. A surprise to me is bigtime soccer not planted in Tucson or Phoenix-Glendale, but what do I know about the pesos in Arizona? And who knows if the NHL cares to really be there with greedy goons wanting to milk taxpayers.

And while we are at it, if the likes of Houston and Portland are pompous without so much as a Tier 3 team for the minor professional ranks, then that’s a NO from me.

Las Vegas for some jetset laundering reason has all the leagues panting to be in that shell. Game. Shell game. It’s the size of Cincinnati market but how many borned-homeboys? Are they leasing California fans and Epcot slots? Feels like Major League Baseball is closer to having Team Coke versus the Apples.

Seattle is a return away from being Big Five. Utah looks to be in a lot of our lifetimes.

https://visitseattle.org/blog/12-spectacular-views-youll-only-see-in-seattle/

Minor League Artificial Intelligence slop for Utah Raptors and Nashville Stars affiliates

 I cannot personally decide if I like Utah Raptors or Eagles more. (Pooh on you Philly or Toronto (unrespectfully)).

Tennessee Smokies is solid. Or even Tennessee Countries or Sounds sounds good. I can’t decide.

Personally, I’m not a fan of a Nashville Stars brand. I mean, I’m a Cincinnati guy, and the star theme fits, but the harping on separatism beat is a bad drum. And I feel like Americana is on life support with fixations on differences (in the vein of cultural salad slop versus a melting pot theme). Life is too short. World demography is reality.

Innywayz anyyyyyyyyyyway

Enjoy the Pacifics out in Oregon taking on the Virginia Spider Monkeys

And Boise v. Oakland. And Montanamen vs. the Friendlyghosts. Enjoy them even if A.I. trolls me relentlessly like an Indian Chinamen rabbi Roosky.

Maybe we could shift to have the Jackson Joeboos affiliate be for the Cleveland Engines, Indians or Guardian whatevertheyares, taking on the New Orleans Parades.

Relentless A.i. trollslop 

The Last Leaves of Big Leagues

It’s all this quarter century.

Let me attempt to be poeticthetically: The Last Leaves of the Fall.

Oakland A’s came two decades past the Expos vacating.

Raiders shuffled again. Rams were before that. Is Jacksonville stuck? Is the Buildaburger too big to pass up Londonistan over the like of a Jacksonville shift to Toronto or Louisville before any such leap?

Oakland, the overgrown ghetto, got the round ball smacked across the Bay. Them SuperSonics fell after Vancouver. A lot of rain up there, but isn’t NBA indoors?

Atlanta’s re-loss was Winnipeg’s regain.

Tier 3 hockey in Atlanta area.

Seattle and St. Louis have been losers and gainers. Oakland and Vancouver toast. 

Utah Raptors & Frontiers or Eagles, oh my

 

Throwback to before Mammoth with my 2019 way. 

Utah Eagles, like Raptors, isn’t really for the hardwood either. Americana belongs beyond Philly. Though Utah Turkey could ring with Franklin fans.

Would a good Chicago Fire rival be Indiana Backed Blue?

 

Not sorry

Nod back (to the old) Crew logo

Major League Soccer. Would you welcome an Indiana Infantry . . .

I’ve made mention before. I’m attempting to hit on the soccer vibe. Leave the beautification of the turf and logo to the pros. I’ll do the weird prose.

Will Indianapolis have a section in the stand for mounted infantry? Another section called, “dismounted”, or the platoon office. “Motor Pool” for tailgating?

I might totally be off the mark with this army patch vibe AND artintell, but would this be a decent team/fan crest for Indy Infantry? The Brigade. 

Show me a better logo for the blue chord confetti…