Outlanders Representation. Big League Travel Team Field of Dreams

What do you think about a team called the Eastern Battalion or the Western Brigade?

Which league would best accommodate this?  The NBA?
The Eastern team would bode well with camp in cities like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville and Birmingham.  In the West, Las Vegas, Albuquerque and Seattle.

The idea for outlanders representation came to me a handful of years ago.  I was thinking about a baseball carnival atmosphere out in the middle of nowhere.  I thought about a western American League team and a National east one.  It would be the "End of the World Tour" with "hometown" camp teams in fields with play on the 2012 Mayan deal.  At least for a season, we would get to scope a Field of Dreams concert Americana atmosphere in places like the Dakotas and Montana, Idaho and Nebraska, a baseball Woodstock of sorts.

Football's schedule is more doable.  Not the easiest thing to lay ice but it can be accomodated.  I don't think soccer would have the draw but I could be wrong with the youth's love of soccer.  At a big league level, baseball would logistically be the toughest as far as seating and such.  But I think the charm and TV ticket would be sufficient.

Iowa proposal

Palisades Park

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 INTERNATIONAL

Which will be next International City for the Big Five?

Puerto Rico MLB Team. East Coast.

NFL London Chargers, Rams or Jaguars. Not the Jaguars, huh?

Monterrey Rays. Or Sur Toros? MLB in Mexico
NBA Europe Week. International NBA Sister Cities

Canadian Band - NHL Travel Tag Team for Outlander Canada

American City Jets. American Coast Jets. East Coast Jets. Shuffling Shake Up for the NFL and Maybe NFL London

 Canada's Populated Places to Consider in Pro Sports Expansion

Next MLB Expansion Likely Canada or Mexico

 

 

Options Options Options. What about this Relocation & Expansion for 32 team MLB ?

 The Next Expansion Team. What's the Smartest Way for the Leagues to do it? Region Teams Equal More buy-in.
 

The Expansion of the Eastern Demographic in Big League Sports and Who is On the Chopping Block

The chopping block:

First that comes to mind is the Tampa Bay Rays.

Then the Jacksonville Jaguars.

I would almost prefer Montreal over Tampa as the site of MLB.  I figure that Tampa could share the Florida Marlins.  Or the Rays could co-locate with Nashville, New Orleans and/or Charlotte as the Southern Rays.
I also figure that Jacksonville could share a Southern moniker and co-locate with central Alabama.

I would also look to share the NHL's Nashville Predators with Atlanta and deem them "Southern".  And yeah, I realize that selfish of me.  Most of us recognize Atlanta is missing MLS.

Some Cities in the future, even if that future is far away for other major league towns:
MLB:  New Orleans, Nashville, Charlotte, Indianapolis and Columbus
NBA:  Pittsburgh, Cincinnati/C-bus, Nashville, L-ville, St. Louis and KC
NFL:  Louisville and Toronto stick out starkly in my mind.
What am I missing here?

East and West of the Mississip

Speaking of KC, let's look more out west, also:
Vegas, Portland, some SLC and Albuquerque, some OKC and San Antone.
NHL in Houston, Seattle, Cleveland and Milwaukee...stuff like that.



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NBA Sister Cities Abroad.

I have blogmentioned before a sort of sister cities for NBA cities.
The NBA is popular in Europe.  What about sister cities abroad?

The Barcelona Lakers weekend host the game versus the Amsterdam Clippers and after a short break, the series is hosted by Holland.  Glasgow and Dublin Celtics taking on the London Kings, Paris Jazz and the Stockholm Timberwolves.  The feature world game of the week.

What are some other good parings?

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MLS v. the World

An upturned nose is a target.  Hopefully USA will go far in the World Cup.
Reminds me of March Madness

Oh, so the MLS is made up of international imports from the world...just not maybe the world's best league?
Either way, that's room to grow.  When the popularity catches up here, there will be more haters.  Until then, maybe we'll admire foreign soccer like Europe admires the NBA.


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Columbus Crew

The California Angels of Anaheim and Oakland. West Coast Raiders.

Let's start doing some things that make sense and cents.  Oaktown baseball is 17 miles away from Giants baseball.  Get rid of the Athletics and share the California Angels.

Move those A's to Portland and Las Vegas:  The West Coast Athletics.  Maybe even throw Sacramento in there for Angels or A's ball.  It equals out to major coverage in all the major areas.  For now, there are gaping holes in LA, Portland and Vegas.  Make the venues a more festive and exciting atmosphere.  Spread the love.

Let's take the Raiders to LA or share them with Oakland.  The West Coast Raiders can have a game or two in Vegas.  Or Portland also

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What sport could be played on Charlotte's infield? Soccer and NASCAR ???

The Charlotte Motor Speedway.  Big infield.

What if a similar venue were built in the south with a football stadium in the middle of it?

What are the dimensions?  I wish I had an architect and baseball or stadium lover in my rolodex.

Could such a venue be built in Atlanta with soccer facilities for MLS and the community?  Is multi-venue the future?  Could that help anchor soccer in the south?  The Southern Boozrunners.  The Leggers.  Bootleggers.

What if you could back your trailer into a box seating area to finish off your tailgating experience for the weekend?  The empty stadium would look like catacombs.  Concerts, soccer, football, baseball, etc.  Multivenue facilities not done yet.  Retractable dome.  Basketball, Hockey.    All-season use.

How could it be done so as to uninhibit the binocular view of the spectator's entire track?  Retractable seating?  In a world where land-use will be increasingly recognized as precious, as always, necessity will be the mother of invention.  I say, why not brainstorm more contingency. 

http://www.charlottemotorspeedway.com/media/facts/
My first chatter about this:
http://prosportsexpansion.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-tale-of-two-cities-regional.html

Those darned ADHD, low attention span kiddos:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/06/16/5904730/the-younger-generation-of-americans.html

And looky what took me so long to find by browsing something else:  article - Football on Bristol Speedway's infield

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A rivalry down the road for Cincinnati. What would a future Kentucky NFL team be called?

I got to thinking about the Bengal's lease for PBS being up in 2017 and how Mike Brown might want to keep up with the Jerry Joneses.  I thought of the possibility of the Commonwealth of Kentucky trying to lure the Bengals across the river, whether that be a hop over the river or a jump to Louisville.

What if it weren't in Lexington or Louisville?  What if it were provocative and stadiums faced each other right across the river?  Wouldn't that attract an olympic venue to the area?

What if they put a stadium in Covington or under the I-275 loop and had an NFL franchise named Kentucky?  The Colonels would be awesome.  What other names would be outstanding?  Thoroughbreds.  Kentucky Downs.  "Riflemen" might be too charged of a name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_in_Kentucky#Professional_sports_teams

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Will Chi-town ever get another Chicagoland team?

Will Chi-town ever get another Chicagoland team?

New York has the Mets and Yankees

Chicago, the Cubs and White Sox

LA has the Dodgers and Angels.

Los Angeles used to have the Raiders and Rams.
Out of these three supercity megatowns, Chicago didn't have two NBA, NFL or NHL teams.  LA and NYC have two bball and puckball teams alongside two big 3 teams.
Will Chi-town ever get another Chicagoland team?  Bears and Bulls.

Chicago has the Blackhawks and an AHL team

I'd like to dock another NHL team there, co-locating one with Cleveland and maybe Milwaukee.  My whole Great Lakes themed team.

-Article- Cross-town rival for the Bulls

Monsters of the Midway

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Two Teams for a Town in a Sport. Who has got Next?

Another baseball team in Phila and Dallas ???

The Great Recession and Expansion. Combining Pro Sports Markets.

Denver now.  Tampa mentioned even more than a handful of years ago (http://www.nbcnews.com/id/11329765/ns/business-local_business/t/top-markets-could-handle-more-pro-sports/)

Yes, the article is 2006.  And times move fast, right?  That's shortly before the house was found out to be a house of cards and mcmansions.  The economy is smelly and gas prices are ammonia.

So, isn't the article more credible now? 
My regional tag team/home camp argument for the next relocation/expansion of sport franchise is in place if the economy isn't bolstered while talent grows.
Stir this in your thoughts:
Some markets have two teams in the same area.  That would be NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago.  The fourth largest markets (whether ranked by tv market, money market or population-wise) aren't poised because of the economy.  That is unless they were used as camps.
So, another hockey and basketball team could be set in the northeast housed in Philadelphia and Boston with more camps in the region.

An NHL team in Milwaukee and Cleveland called Great Lakes.
An NHL team in Seattle and Portland sounding Northwest.
A Southern team, housed in Atlanta.... with maybe Nashville or Miami.  I like the Florida Lightning better than the Panthers.
With the New England team, that's the next 4 team expansion.  Or maybe even skip out on NE or the South and throw in that Toronto2 team, named Ontario or otherwise.

I've hummed some of this throughout my blog.
As pro sports dictator, I'd do this now, ranging in more outlander fans. ...maybe without strong regard to team names just yet:

RIGHT NOW!

In the MLB, we'd have:
The West Coast Athletics of Portland, yes...Oakland and Las Vegas.  Problem solved.
The Eastland Rays of Charlotte and Nashville.
The Florida Marlins of Miami and Tampa Bay.
The Gulf Coast Astros of Houston, New Orleans and eventually maybe Tampa, with Pensacola in mind for a NASA'esque theme.  NO EXPANSION NECESSARY of franchise.  Territory, yes.  TV market infringement, somewhat of a reality.

Honorable mention in my thoughts was the Southern Sounds of New Orleans and Nashville.  I wouldn't even mind much to expand the Eastland Pirates territory to stretch out through Columbus and Indianapolis across I-70.

In the NFL:
The Southern Saints.  And playing in Jacksonville and/or Alabama.
West Coast Raiders expand to Portland and Las Vegas
The Los Angeles Rams
The Norde Force in Toronto and throughout Canada, formerly equipped in Jacksonville.  NO EXPANSION NECESSARY

In the NBA:
River City Renegades of Cincinnati-Pittsburgh.... (Milwaukee Bucks)?
Western Grizzlies of Salt Lake City, Vegas and Memphis
Jazz .... of New Orleans and Seattle
Seattle and St. Louis/Kansas City Supersonics
Nashville/Atlanta Hawks
.....So, maybe an expansion in there, maybe not.

NHL:
Great Lakes Armada of Milwaukee/Cleveland and Chicago (if needed)
Northwest Fleet of Portland/Seattle (Used to be the Panthers)
Western Coyotes of Phx/Vegas
Ontario Maplesyrupthieves of Toronto or some such.  Maybe the Eastern Duckfleet of Toronto2 and Quebec City.  Somethin'.
Southern Predators share camp in Atlanta.
2 team expansion.

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Two Teams for a Town in a Sport. Who has got Next?

Two teams for a town.

New York area has 2 teams in each of the big five.
LA has two basketball and baseball teams while they used to have football,....two of them.
The three biggest towns in America have two diamond teams.  Angels, Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, Cubs White Sox.

Who has got next?  And which sport will it be?

Who are the 4th largest markets?  Yep, I said markets.  How will the populations change in ten years?

 
-Population-wise.....Metro areas:  D.C., followed by Boston, the Bay and Philly (http://geography.about.com/od/lists/a/csa2005.htm)

-Moneywise, it's the Washington D.C. area (article www.bizjournals.com/), followed by Houston, then Dallas and The Bay.

-TV marketwise:  Philadelphia  http://www.stationindex.com/tv/tv-markets, followed by Dallas, the Bay and Boston.

TV market might be the most business insight with concerns to expansion in professional sports.

I'm still interested in exploring more of my camp regional team argument.
With the Boston and Philadelphia areas listed I could see another NBA or even MLB team named New England sharing camp with the northern and southern stretches of the Northeast Seaboard.

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