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

 

My Next Two in the Big Five right now.

NBA: West Coast Whales and Kentucky Colonels. No SuperSonics, but the Whales are in Seattle and La vida Las Vegas.

NHL: Portland Iceroad Fuckers and Cincinnati Polar Bears. Get out of the way of ICE, Portlandpotties. Maybe the Milwaukee Meece instead.

MLS: Armada Milwaukee and Detroit Arsenal 

NFL: Utah Raptors (or Stags) and Kentucky Downs

MLB: Utah Eagles (or Raptors) and Nashville Stars. I guess that’s the name Tennessee wants.

SLC and Brewerville be luvin me.

Montreal Expos Trip-A team

 

We wish: San Diego Madres vs. Cinci Red Legs. Meta AI is still weird edition

 WMLB 

Maybe AI no speak Spanish

We Wish: Detroit Arsenal vs. Sacramento Republic

 

Omaha, Louisville and Birmingham Look Lonely

 

We Wish: Utah Stags vs. Kentucky Downs

A cool Utah Stags helmet is on an older post. Art.Intell did not do a Meta good job on the Kentucky Downs brand. Or the Ky Bucks one. Louisville Horsemen better? Apocalypse cheerleaders? Goth metal.

I’m sure you can come up with better.

Kentucky or Nebraska next?

 States without the big leagues.

NBA or NHL.

Will Louisville bounce that hardwood? Will Omaha have ice before then?

I’m for Omaha-Dakota Diesel and Louisville Stangs

The Basketball and Baseball Bengals. Hockeytown too.

 AI is still a little slow and

woke.

Big Branding Exhibition. Sample West Coast Athletics and Raiders

 Las Vegas may be Tampa West someday, bagging 3 big league teams in a decade, and looking at the fourth on hardwood for Thee Big 4 sports.

If an idea of sharing between a couple big cities in a West Coast brand isn’t a thing, why not do it at least for an exhibition with Portland? Sell the apparel.

Revisiting the possibility of more Big League teams a Decade Later: SLC

 Here we are, overshadowing Portland for MLB west. Ten years ago I probably would’ve dismissed the viable mention of Utah MLB.

Who is laughing now? 

Kicking and dribbling balls has spread into skating and the most expensive big leagues of baseball. The state ties funding to keeping the Utah name. Landing an MLB team would make NFL inevitable as hell. I’d be figuring out the names at this point. What are the team names? Mammoth is locked. Eagles baseball? The football Raptors? Utah Towers. Mountaineers. Utah Travel. Stags.

World widewebbers come up with gold. I spied Stormin’ Mormons, football Hornets, and Elk among them.

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The Pitch: Utah MLB

Houston Southstars NHL?

 Nobody is going to latch on to my big brand idea of the Southlakes Fishermen as an NHL team skating between Houston and Atlanta. 

See my nod to ol’ North Stars? 

The Leagues RESORTing to These

 Las Vegas and Austin and Nashville and Orlando

Resort towns, especially if you lump in San Antonio with Austin, and you should definitely do that journey, are INTRAnational destinations, as well as international ones. Las Vegas and Florida have shown folks weary of non-transplant heavy populations can hone in on the home teams enough to plant a flag. Well, Tampa Yankees, cough, I mean Deviled Rays have given MLB grief.

Las Vegas, as artificial as ever, bucks the Dam trend (reach for a Hoover Dam toy town joke). Austin has heartache with so many Texas Big Towns and brands to buck with. Pretty ditto for Alamo.

Nashville dashed with light speed in ten years. If I were a Charlottan, my anxiety would be peak.

In that time also, SLC shot-outta-canon over Portland, and MLB,aside from business bolstering, can see Utah as a nice lillypad logistic hop to new turf Nevada

Nashville, Nevada and SLC have risen bigtime. Central Texas and Orlando have proximal grief. Charlotte swats at its neighbor of Raleigh but really a Carolina brand to root for is what you need.

Move Two in AL/NL. Indianapolis White Sox?

 Rays and Brewers

Nashville Brewers makes sense.

White Sox or Orioles? I’ve talked about these before. Essentially, the DC area and Chicago still got a team.

The Rays is the no-brainer, right? Make Marlins Florida again.

Indianapolis White Sox and Carolina Orioles? Now we got room for SLC and Portland as expansion teams. Indiana is pitched on the map enough, and really planting flags for the future is what MLB is doing for business.

New Orleans and Portland might be triple A towns. New Orleans was recently. Portland awhile ago.

Should the Blue Jackets have been in Cincinnati or Cleveland? Saturation

From Cleveland to Akron and Dayton to Cincinnati, there are simply more people in those two stretches of Ohio.

MLS in Columbus, along with their minor league hockey scene was probably a boost for the heart of Ohio for NHL choice as a halfway compromise for the shoulder shrug between figuring for the existing DawgPound or Jungle turf. Plus, the corners of the Buckeye State were already bigtime but medium markets as compared to cities on the edge of the state and markets by Lake Michigan. 

So, there was saturation economywise (market wise) with all that ticket price USD value TV market mumbojumbo.

Inclusive logo wrapping the state

Could Cleveland get a team one day called the Scary Lakers….

I cure MLB fan bases to 2030

 

32 MLB teams, potentially 5 or 6 new markets.

West Coast Angels play in both California and Portland. I don’t care where in Cali. LA, Sacramento, wherever.

Ditto for Florida Marlins. Think Miami and Tampa or Orlando. Rays go to Nashville or Carolina. Whoever doesn’t get the Rays gets expansion franchise.

Utah gets the other. Wallah! Idea good AF yo

WNBA next

Vancouver Vixen

Cincinnati Stunners

Pittsburgh Birdies

Florida Amazons

Salty Lake Moremans

Charleston Belles in South Carolina

Boston Dollies

Tennessee Power

Missouri Cougars

Denver Dames …Omaha Mamas ?…Bama ?

The Verticles and Horizontals

Longitudes/ Latitudes

Montreal-NYC

Ottawa - Philadelphia 

Toronto-Pittsburgh- Miami 

Charlotte-Jacksonville - Orlando

Detroit - Columbus- Tampa

Cincinnati- Atlanta 

Indianapolis - Nashville 

GB/Milwaukee - Chicago 

St. Louis - Memphis - New Orleans

Minneapolis - Kansas City - Houston

Winnipeg - OKC - Dallas - San Antonio 

SLC - Phoenix 

Seattle - Portland - Sacramento- San Fran - San Jose

Winnipeg-Vancouver

Montreal - Ottawa -Portland 

Boston - Detroit

Cleveland -  Chicago 

Phila - Columbus - Indianapolis- Denver

D.C. Balt.- Cinci - St.L- KC - Sacramento 

Raleigh - Nashville - Las Vegas

Atl - Phx - L.A.

Dallas - San Diego 

Jacksonville - New Orleans 

The Next Triple-A MiLB Cities

 Portland. Boise. Chicago. Baltimore. Montreal. And maybe another one, like Tampa-St. Pete.

This would definitely alleviate the Nashville-or-Charlotte question.

Nashville’s trip-A team is the Southside Sounds, Charlotte’s the Baltimore Blues

A Montreal rendition and the Southside Chicago stadiums below.

Out west when the Salt Lake Eagles enter MLB, they’ll have their pick of the Portland Potties or Boise Blue Collars for their top farm club. Really, Tampa should give up their club for relocation. That’s the best solution. Start with the Charlotte Rays and a smaller Tampa Devil Rays trip-a park ,dbl-a remaining in downtown Charlotte. Nashville can be the expansion with a farm in Montreal.

Cities that buck for MLB that weren’t really serious about even an MiLB club should shut up. Indianapolis deserves big ball better than Oregon Quebec.

Funny how in ten years time Nashville and Utah take the spotlight away from Oregon and Carolina.

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Screwing things up: The Orioles CAN'T be just Baltimore ever more

Turn Camden Yards into an AAA Field

 Carolina Orioles has a ring to it. Baltimore doesn’t need MLB.

Could this be the cure to choosing between Nashville & Charlotte?

Or should Camden Yards hold the triple-A Baltimore Orioles, …or Maryland Blue Sox, Blue Socks, or Maryland Baltimore Eagles or whatever. Baltimore Red Glares. What a magnificent Trip-A ballyard!

All the Africana in the beltway with two MLB teams might be too much. Don’t worry, I’m telling the Frenchies Montreal is going to be a Triple-A city too. White Sox could go to Nashville or Indianapolis as I see it.

Utah MLB equals Boise Triple-A

 

What would be a good name for Boise?

The Breeze. Bombadiers. Idahoans. Blaze. Beers. Pibbles. Hippos.  Blue Sox. The Dynamites. Dancing Dynamites. Perhaps Kips. Fightin’ Lafawndas.

Where you putting that Boise ballyard?