Which next NHL in the east?

 11 million folks in the Golden Horseshoe Ontario….

Canada Airlines. MLB in Vancouver & Montreal

At least for both cities as one franchise.

They can be West, East or North Division aligned. Hell, if someone who is cozy with fancy schmantzy pants math can figure it being (maybe the sole team) both part of the American and National Leagues, do that. An entire farm system with new ballparks the big club can bounce to. All the top parks in all pro baseball, even if a few are 12k seaters.

I’m pretty sure someone can do a sleaker look to the cap or uni. One day the leaf. Next series the jet. That cool Special Operations logo in North American military forces history.  The goalie mask on Halloween. We will all be jealous. But another contender for Yankees level dollars, north pesos, whatever. A Sasquatch hat in Saskatoon. Air Canada. “Air Canada” to the “blame Canada tune”.

Nashville Stars minor league squads

Which level of baseball could be the Lexington Riders/ Kentucky Blues?

Or does Memphis Blue Birds sound like a better removal of St. Louis connection, in spite of the Mighty Miss Sizzip?

Should the old house in Nashville stand to keep some boys close? Could a trip-A or dub-A squad bounce between the capital and Knoxville, or should affiliates all swap out to have an all- Tennessee proximity to the big club’s house?

Below, I had made a fictitious minor league system, sharing a lot of current ballparks, with of course the suspensions of reality like the players union, stadium standards of respective levels of pro ball:

https://prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com/2018/03/is-this-my-minor-league-expansion.html

Jersey Kings MLB?

A few questions I have: where would be an ideal location? Is a barge stadium too much of a security pain? Could Jersey put their team on Staten Island, lol?

What kind of name does NJ want? The Barons. Jackals (the Jacks), the Hops?

Meta AI sucks. Protectionists gibberish 

Staten Island has some views

WNBA specific stadium

And let me be real. Let’s make the seating lesser.

I’ll go further. In my scenario I’ll go for a WNBA city that has no NBA counterpart. Now, there’s Vegas and Connecticut. I’ll do Cincinnati.

Is that wise to be a smaller venue in a big build. No. Or inferring in a sexist or factual way “lesser”? And no. I’m suspending wisdom. Perhaps a smaller venue can be that of a junior college, or smaller campus.

If a big businessman and alum of a smaller school leverages alumni association & Vatican dollars he could build on his ol campus. Division 3 shiny arena fantasized. My hometown of Cincinnati has Mount St. Joseph and that fits the bill. 10,000 seat packed house. Maybe they can play some games in bigger venues in the decades to come. Maybe Cinci will have NHL and/or NBA by then.

Then we can call the team Queen City. The Cincinnati Royals again. Cincinnati Sisters (brought to you, in part, by the pope).

A.i. is wild ….and now you get the picture

Okay so maybe we should do 15k seats or even 18? Build some new eco parking garage or something 

Oh my, A.i. I think whipped up a “futuristic” force-field dome.

The Seattle Trailsonics?!

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zl0Jt-R-ao4&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

If they have to take the Afroheavy franchise out of commie Portland, Las Vegas and Seattle aren’t as far a stretch as Louisville, even though Sin and Coffee rain city are thought to be tops for expansion bids according to buzz.

Decade in review ~2015 - …the Difference 10 years takes us to 2026

Baseball expansion burning on my mind, around 2015 I had Charlotte & Portland pegged for the nods.

In 2026 I’m seeing Nashville & Salt Lake City in their stead. Utah MLB was just not on my list of feasibility a decade ago. Speaking of Nashvegas…

I wasn’t huge on Vegas. Cautionary tales vacationland Yankee Florida, especially Tampa had me backed off even beyond gambling, let alone expanding the NBA to Sin City or scooting a MLB franchise there.

To me Big Four there in Vegas is still nuts. The economic incentives to diversify economic migrancy there beyond the service economy leaves me wonder if businesses will ever pay taxes there. Are they aiming for more visiting fans than home team ones?

Will NBA be back to Seattle? Will NHL ever be in Portland. How hard does ice melt in Houston or Austin? Arizona isn’t Coyotes anymore. They reincarnated in Utah. Ice melts there an a Mammoth came out. Big league hockey costs almost the most money it takes for a market to support a team. MLB takes an amount well north of $100 billion to house a team. Then NHL at about half that. Then NFL. Then NBA. And alas MLS. The money is over the mountain in Utah baseball.

I guess I should mention it was actually floated out into the business of baseball to consider splitting time for the ol’ devil Rays to part time in Tampa along with Montreal. Forget it, Frenchies. The try didn’t go through.

Any hoot, time flies. Any NFL Maps search in my blog will show there’s no enormous gaps beckoning the league, but you can bet the momentum in the likes of Utah, and abandoned mirages of San Diego and Oakland can feel fever pitch.

MLS with/without Maps

 

Gateway vs. Southlakes

Football Club insert town name.

Soccer Club city state

I guess saying a city is a tiger is as lame as any other logo staffed with mercenaries from outside the hometown, let alone country, but I just wish there was a little more fun with it. NBA has the Golden State Warriors.

I’m thinking of fun names like The Ranch. Oklahoma or New Mexico? Ranchers United.

A team for Appalachia: Bootleggers Utd.

There are more in the blog. Armada. Great Lakes. Couldn’t Saint Louis and hockey camps Southlakes for Atlanta and Houston be funner? Yeah, funner.

Oh, AI. You’re goofy still.

Pick some Lady Basketleague Teams

 Meta AI sucks. For the Boston Dollies, they called you people the Dolts in a fancy manner. So the AI might be generated from London. Tried twice for St. Louis Keepers and the AI must be a Francophone from the Congo. The Florida Miracles and Carolina Cats are proudly presented.

Datacastle on YouTube 

Note that LV and Connecticut are the franchises without NBA counterparts 

We Wish? Ladies KC Cowgirls vs. Nashville Drive….or…this WNBA

 Kansas City Drive contextually has history. But KC Cowgirls has alliteration.

What names should they be?

WNBA next gal towns

 

Where next? NBA towns like Denver? San Antonio and Houston used to.

St. Louis and KC are the Show Me state minus the guys. Back to Utah and Florida also maybe. New markets like Cinci, Pittsburgh or even Omaha & Boise. White viewership is undeniably important.

Nashville and Austin are hip towns. Tennessee Dollies. Her effigy sewing a flag on a rocker. Honolulu’s turn maybe. Montreal. The Calgary Dames. The league used to be in towns like Tulsa, Charlotte and Miami.

NBA -without states map

 For me, Las Vegas should trade MLB to have another team.

How about a team called Showmen for the Show-me state?

A team called West Coast could have a bigger Alaskan Hawaiian fan base along with Seattle and Vegas.

Should I dot Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St.L, KC?

NHL with&without Maps

 Toronto 2? Ontario, Not California.

Some say Houston. Saskatoon Squatch.

Great expand-branding. Funtime Minor Leagues

 Rocket City Trash Pandas

Portland should build Biggest Triple-A Stadium

 Then it could exhibit big league baseball. Vegas will have your West Coast Athletics tees ready, and then you could pawn off your Portland apparel at least a couple times per year.

Do 17,500 seats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Triple-A_baseball_stadiums#

Congrats on the situation you got now, I guess.

We Wish: Kentucky Horsemen taking on the West Coast Whales

First series hits the hardwood in Louisville before a later meet, hopping onto the Whales home court in Seattle before docking camp a little later in Las Vegas.

Doesn’t the horse’s nose double as a Reaper of the apocalypse?

Looky there. MLB viewers.

 Nebraska, Wyoming and New Mexico. Some random person shout, “how dare you?!”

 Poor Rangers and Angels. It’s a case for San Antonio. If DC can be the Nationals, there can be the San Antonio Americans.

Move the Rays. Make Marlins Florida again.

The Scribbled Blankets of Baseball

Sorry, Omaha and OKC.

Billings, Casper and Albuquerque turkey. Utah for now…

Sound choice

 

NFL with-and-without Maps

 And how does this make you feel?

The Suburbans: indoor travel tag team

At this time a lot of markets can feel missing out on some big leagues. I’m thinking places like Boise, Albuquerque, Louisville, Grand Rapids, Tucson, Tulsa and Birmingham. Or even Fresno, Richmond, Omaha and Hartford or Providence.

Not sure how viable the thought is. But I’m giving it some thought. This time with this brand: The Suburbans.

Fashioned somewhat as the home team camped in your town for the time, and they’re playing the Detroit Red Wings. Better than no team at all? Suburban apparel. After all, Seattle chose the Kraken. I spelled that wrong on the first try.

Art.intell, meta, or somebody or something is still retarded. Second time, I asked AI to spell it correctly on the jersey didn’t work either

Could it work for indoor football, hockey and basketball? It’s the big leagues in your arena a few times a year. Try it for a high pro minor league affiliate?

With thoughts of brand, correlations to soilbirth and loyalty to things such as place or branding, etcetera and so forth - Good topics to contort. Will a pro team just call itself Coke in Atlanta someday?

Shifty diasporas of brand

Thirty years ago much like today in that sense? I don’t know.

And, off the cuff I’m going to make some suppositions, AND they may be outdated. But.

This is the viewpoint of my Midwest near the South, Ohio, and Cincinnati kid viewpoint:

There are probably some Irish American fans all over the place for the Celtics. Notre Dame and Catholic all the same. And going back to my youth, that seemed the case for the African Americans for Raiders and Niners and Bulls. Oh my. Pop culture too. The Bulls were everywhere though. Jordan was that big. And really, whatever Starter brands were available for wear, poor kids wore it all. I think it’s worth exploring loyalty along racial lines. 

Speaking for myself and central Cincinnati late last century, the vibe of tension felt more like caste than color - that being more meritocratic: are you athletic (tough) or not, or are you a mark/nerd? Athletic kids got tested way less. Also, having old black women as teachers, and old people in general, discipline did not get tested often at all. Those old folks came up in no-nonsense. School-in -session was conducive to minding your business. Sounds better than today’s climate

Anyhoot,

Yankees weren’t good enough in the 80s to be trendy in the Midwest. As a big sports fan I even enjoyed picking a second team to follow the box scores for. Also enjoyed following a second player.

Growing up in Cincinnati, pretty much dead center of the city/county, we all saw kids wearing starter jackets and coats of not-Cincinnati teams. For baseball there were more Reds jackets, but for football you’d see Raiders and Niners galore. Then there were those Hornets jackets and coats, our intro to the teal palette in big teams. Every once in awhile we’d see Tar Heels stuff. Around the turn of the ‘90s decade, it probably was an access issue. There were catalogues, but even those had limits and seemed to leave out small market options (or ran out).

I’m too embarrassed to say which coat I ended up getting, but the other choice I had at the time, from Sears, was the Browns, and back then that was the equivalent of me sporting Steelers as a Bengals fan. One of my junior high teachers had a Browns. He was from Cleveland. We didn’t live in Cleveland. We lived in the actual Cincinnati. I would stare at catalogs of choices. Monetarily that wasn’t an option. 5 folks in a 1 bedroom apartment type options. Later, in the suburbs, my brother got a Cowboys coat. I got a Reds Jacket. Some people like color. I liked the team. I suppose I’m casting indictment on “traitors”, but I cannot argue power or freedom of choice.

Outside market fans bothered me. I get why we as kids took whatever we could get. It was the 1900s, for God’s sake. But Cincinnati kids, many who I presume were at least second or third generation Cincinnatian were even verbally preaching fealty to outside market. I was taking second hand clothes from cousins. I remember a Rams sweatshirt. Not sure where I got the Tasmanian devil NY Giants shirt from. But I liked football enough to watch and root for second-teams when the Bengals weren’t on. It helped for awhile that the Bengals were great then, during peak childhood for baseball and football.

It’s also worth mentioning that the suburbs is where I incurred folks with fealty to Ohio State. Maybe that’s the reason the Buckeyes never jived for me. Cincinnati feels like it’s in a different state than Columbus, or really even in Cindi’s surrounding counties sometimes.

Having no NBA team left me victim to the Jordan era. I clung on to Reggie Miller and the Pacers out of proximity. Big networks shoved Lakers, Bulls and Celtics down our gullet. And while on the tv subject, cable networks broadcasted about every Braves and Cubs game into the Cinci and American market. Smart move for them. Old timers like my retired grandpa had cable. Many times they had to catch the Reds flick in the ear (radio), and wind down nights with an Atlanta or Chicago game, those markets being king of the Midwest and South.

What do we see these days?

- A lot of Yankee fans transplants in Florida, and probably Phoenix and Vegas as well. Folks were warning Florida had too many Yankeebaggers decades ago. Probably too many Sox fans now too.

-ditto across the country for Raider and Cowboy nation. I’ve spied west coast old timers staying married to power houses of the 70s, like the Steelers. That and Hillbillies from Ohio with families out of Middletown Steel latching onto that same franchise. Winning pays.

I’m spurning off more questions than answers here.

How much of society only does winners anymore?

Baseball With-and-without Maps

Maybe soonish?

 

Atlanta Braves smothering blanket

 

Or…do We Wish this: Portland Talls vs. Carolina Cougar Cats

 

We Wish: Utah Raptors vs. Nashville Stars