Saturday, August 29, 2015

Celtic Country Tour, Laker Nation Tour. An Exercise for a Bigger Brand. A New NBA Expansion

A theme throughout my blog is co-locating a big league team.  At first, my thoughts are with struggling franchises.  To name a few in the big five:  the Raiders, Athletics, Rams, Rays, Coyotes, Florida Panthers

Instead of putting a team in a few places like the West Coast A's in Oakland (or Sacramento) and Las Vegas, one could simply put the Rams in LA calling them the West Coast Rams and maybe even do pre-season in Portland.  Anyways, there are a few ways to dice it, like putting the West Coast Clippers in Seattle also. 

Boston and LA aren't struggling in the basketball seat or television department, but if they ever did a consistent place-of-play expansion to one extent or another, imagine the apparel sales for a Celtic or Laker nation jerseys and caps.

 Look at some of these towns:
 wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_large_Irish-American_populations


Celtic Country
Cincinnati, Omaha, Tulsa, KC and St. Louis, Pittsburgh

      and

Laker Nation
Seattle
Las Vegas
Buffalo
El Paso
Mobile, Alabama
Louisville


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Relocating the Coyotes and the Panthers. A Regional Co-location. A New NHL Expansion

Hockey in Tampa is impressive.  They are a cup holder and that surely helped.

Hockey in Miami is eh.  Same for Arizona.  Hopefully the one-big horse town of Las Vegas will prove to not be like either.

I'm all for a re-brand and relocation of the Panthers and Coyotes.  But I think co-locating somewhere else is good also.  The Panthers were founded about the same time as the Marlins, yet the Panthers are still called "Florida", despite a dominant lightning touted in Tampa, and I like it.

But let's share Miami with Atlanta part-time and rebrand them.  How about the Southlakes Panthers?  Or what about a complete overhaul?  The Southlakes Fishermen.  Think of the apparel and television viewership with that broad swath.

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What about those huge holes in Seattle and Portland?  West Coast Whales instead of the Coyotes? 
Wolf Pack?   
West Coast Ghosts?

Let's share some NHL hockey with Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, Anchorage, SLC, Boise and Hampton Roads.  Consider some exhibition with Honolulu, Louisville and New Orleans.  Would not a Great Lakes brand in Cleveland and Milwaukee be grand?

It's a theme in my blog:  co-location [for at least struggling franchises].  And an experimental expansion.  A safer dip of the toes into unknown waters.  Cities beckoning big business.
The NBA shared a team in Nebraska and Missouri.  See the history of the Kings.

I see other possibilities with MLB vacant cities for an imagined West Coast Athletics and the Southland Rays.  West Coast Clippers, Raiders and the old Chivas (new LAFC).

Las Vegas would be a fantastic part-time town.  And Portland in many cases too.
What do you think? 

South Carolina Stingrays


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Monday, August 24, 2015

Wyoming Truckers Team for MiLB. Or Maybe One for the Dakotas Also

Wyoming is currently the only state without a pro ball team in baseball.
If there were ever a road team or a travel-tag-team of sorts, perhaps Wyoming would be a good fill.

Big Country would be a great name for such a team.  Mayhaps the Big Country Barnstormers.  The neighbors in the Dakota oilfields could take part in on the part-time romance.

Pioneer league?

Who are my Minor League officionados that can chime in on this?


 Wouldn't a rural backdrop be good and romantic for some American lovin'?
Bakkan Oil Field in N. Dakota
Cheyenne
Man Camp in North Dakota


 

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Monday, August 17, 2015

City Combo'Nations for some Sports Tag-Travel Team thoughts

Megalopolises.  Thanks Wikipedia.
The theme of my blog is largely about having a team for two or more cities.  Think Yankees or Mets playing in Buffalo for half their games.  That would truly expand Mets or Yankee Nation in a more concrete way.  Not an example I would want to see, but you get my point.  Can you think of any existing or (new) expansion teams in this regard?
Wikipedia U.S. Metroplex info:
In the United States, the term "Metroplex" most often refers to the Dallas–Fort Worth area. Other metropolitan areas in the U.S. that may locally be called a "metroplex" are:
A team in the likes of Boise at the same time as SLC?  OKC and Omaha?

Let's look at some West, Central and East justifications.

Boise - Salt Lake City area combo is over 3 million people.  What could be their Western moniker justification in name be?

Okalahoma City - Omaha (Lincoln) is well over 2, approaching 3 million people.

Nashville - Charlotte is approaching 4.5 million people.  The Southland brand would include a ton more.

And, looking at it, the sports with the most amount of games (aka, not weekly like the footballs) seem most agreeable for a share.  That being MLB, NHL and NBA.

The West Coasters?  Would that make a team name for something NBA or NHL for SLC, Boise and Vegas?
Southland?  Midland?  Is that what we could name some of these teams.

Here are some of my favorites:
MLB
          Without Expanding
The West Coast Athletics (Oakland (or Sacramento) with Portland and Las Vegas
The Tampa Bay-Monterrey Rays: Yep, Mexico

Another West, Central and East sound justification.
California Angels playing somewhere in northern Cali (like Sacramento or a vacant Oakland for part-time)
Caring is sharing.  Tag team in your mind.
Texas Rangers in central Texas
Florida Marlins again (Rays leave, Marlins play there sometime.
          Maybe getting rid of the Rays and resurrecting the Expos, this time as the East Coast Expos also playing in Charlotte.



          NBA
            It's Without Expanding
West Coast Clippers (maybe San Diego and Seattle).  Think Hawaii and Alaska exhibition.

NFL
West Coast Raiders in Las Vegas.  (And Los Angeles again for that and/or the Rams)  West Coast Rams in Portland, too?  Screw Saint Lou.
Emily.  Blurred Lines
I would like for the Jaguars to see the likes of Louisville, Little Rock and Alabama.
Kentucky Downs sounds lofty.


NHL
West Coast Coyote brand change that includes Portland and Seattle.  Maybe Vegas.
Love the Lightning.  Crash the Panthers.  Bring them up north for the Great Lakes brand I talk about, anchoring the fleet in Milwaukee and Cleveland.
Wouldn't it be neat for the Predators to co-locate in Atlanta and become the Southlakes Fishermen?

For MLS, there are plenty of places with the league growth.  New ground from West to East like Las Vegas, Austin and Louisville would be great for their expansion.   I wish LAFC (old Chivas) became a West Coast brand and something to the effect of name-change like D.C. Baltimore United.

I would like an east coast expansion to include the East Coast Whalers of Hartford and Hampton Roads.  A Midlakes team looking at the likes of the Dakotas, Omaha/Lincoln and Austin is a nifty thought.

All of this has been mentioned previously in my blog posts.

So here is a small recap of some of the new geography powerbrand names:  Southlakes, Midlakes, Great Lakes, West Coast, Southland, East Coast and Midland.  Do you like any of these?


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Thursday, August 13, 2015

East Coast Trollies of Brooklyn and Carolina. A Bigger MLB Expansion is a Two-Place Team

Should it be in Brooklyn or north Jersey?
And also in Charlotte

Think of some east coast cities.  Atlantic City, Hartford, Virginia Beach, Jacksonville and Orlando?

Florida buttseat baseball would be awesome from my travel-tag-team (home-camp) model. 
The Florida Marlins could have cozy stadiums in Tampa, Orlando and Miami.

Baseball in Brooklyn would be romantic.  Like a trolly dodger.  But a trolly.  Jackie Robinson spent time in Montreal coming up.  Could it be a trifecta East Coast Trollies team of Montreal, Brooklyn and Charlotte?

Brooklyn Cyclones minor league baseball.  Google pics of Ebbets Field.

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Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Still 30 MLB Teams. But now the West Coast Athletics and East Coast Expos. Only Change is Montreal and Charlotte now have teams

This West Coast Athletics team I'm referring to is still in Oakland.  And it will part-time on the west coast of Florida.  Take that, Rays and Yankees.  But really the A's could play in Las Vegas or Portland instead of Tampa.  Then the Florida Marlins could be coined and play on both the west and east coasts of Florida.

The Expos will be in Montreal again.  And on new turf in Charlotte.  International Expos?

The possibilities are that Portland, Las Vegas, Charlotte and those 3 new states could enter into the MLB fold.

It is in fact a stretch.  Figuratively and literally. 
Just a thought. It's my pitch.
North Carolina man, Barry Foote

And here are just some more samples
Kansas City-Omaha Kings
The NHL in Lincoln-Omaha. A Big League Team for Nebraska
Major League Baseball in Nashville and New Orleans
Gulf Run Rays. Major League Baseball in Monterrey, New Orleans and Tampa 
Southtown Soundhounds MLS Franchise 
Major League Soccer in Nashville, Charlotte and beyond. 
Florida Panthers can be ridiculous. Co-Locate the Team. Rebrand. Southlakes Fisherman 
Defunct American CFL Teams
California Angels Again
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Monday, August 10, 2015

Big League Sports. Bringing Austin, Las Vegas and Louisville into the Fold

This is a small rambling about bringing some cities without...into the mix.

I'm thinking hockey or soccer for the Sin City and Austin area and the NBA for Louisville.
Or maybe soccer for Louisville too.  Kentucky Downs has a ring to it for NFL love.  But right now, apparently L-town has to be Bengals country.

It's looking more and more like hockey is going to bring Las Vegas into the bigger show on the regular.
But as far as ambiance, I see Louisville for the NBA and Austin for the NHL.  There is some proximity to Houston for the capital of Texas, but anybody with boots on the ground in Texas knows that Austin is a better fit for ice hockey.  Houston would get extra saturated in the sports market with ice melt; not wet with excitement or nipply from the chill.



Another newbie to consider would be Little Rock.  And obviously SEC country touts football with a passionate exhale.  Not a newbie to the big time thanks to the roundball, OKC would make a great alliterate team of the Oilers reincarnate.

What say you about potential big league newbies?


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Major League Sports Franchise in Little Rock
Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL

Oklahoma City: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports
Mid-American Cities that should Get More Pro Teams. And Austin
Eastern Cities That Get More Pro Teams. And Louisville.
East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL 
Forget building a new ballpark in Oakland. Do it in Las Vegas. The West Coast Athletics
The Chivas should've been moved to Las Vegas Part-Time
  
   
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Sunday, August 9, 2015

Texas Country Cavalry. A Team with Two Stadiums. A two-town Texas team

Or more of Texas represented in the like of the world's pastime.

El Paso in west Texas, San Marcos for San Antonio/Austin region-plex (kinda' like metroplex) in central Texas around Hill Country. -Those would be good sites for stadiums.

A Hill Country and West Texas brand of baseball.  What better mobile name than that of Cavalry to compete with the Rangers.  Or is this an MLS franchise, once a month in the middle, once per month in El Paso?
Imagine, ....the Lone Star Ballyards.  Central.  And West.
It would be sweet as sunshine wouldn't it?

Texas Country Cavalry

The Texas Train ?  Or for soccer, Texas Divided or Texas Express

Oh my lord.  Have mercy.


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Southwest Express share with Alburquerque in baseball or soccer with Arizona? Austin with Las Vegas for hockey?  click: Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL
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Saturday, August 8, 2015

The Czar of Sports and Professional Sports Expansion. Maybe a Ridiculous Dictator, 2015

WHAT I WOULD DO OFF THE BAT

It may only be an expansion of territory or fan base, but an expansion nonetheless.  Though maybe not practical at this time, I'm doing it anyway in Imaginationland.  So here's how I would start to shake it up, from building in central Texas and west central Alabama to sharing the Clippers in Seattle and Southern California.
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San Marcos, Texas
A major sports complex is constructed in San Marcos.  The Central Texas Sports World.
-A wonderful recreational commute for residents of Austin and San Antonio to San Marcos, which is about 30 miles for each respective area, this is where I'm putting an NFL, MLS, NHL and MLB stadium.
The Texas Rangers play some time there.  An expansion (or relocated/rebranded) hockey team.  Let's go with the NHL Panthers vacating Miami to become the Texas Stampede.  An expansion MLS club (Texas Divided) and a place for Houston to play once in awhile for now.  I would consider sharing the Austin or central Texas brand with Las Vegas.

#MLBExpansion     #NHLExpansion     #NFLExpansion     #MLSExpansion     #NHLRelocation     #NHLAustin



Here are some franchises on the block:
NHL - Predators, Coyotes, Panthers are getting relocated or moved (disbanded or whatever)
MLB- The West Coast Athletics are playing elsewhere in addition to Oakland, which is a short drive to Giantslands
NBA- Grizzlies may just become the Southland Grizzlies with Louisville.  Clippers in Seattle also.
NFL-Jaguars
MLS-Western Stampede  A series of games played in Louisville, Austin and Las Vegas.  New stadiums or existing structures, whatever.


Florida Marlins
Tampa gets baseball but only part time under the Florida Marlins franchise

South Bay Rays and nicknamed Southern Run Rays.  Or should I consider them to be the Tampa Bay-Monterrey Rays for a part-time Mexican tag team like I have in previous blog posts?

#MLBExpansion


Canada
The Norde Force in NFL sharing time throughout CFL facilities.  Best ratings for television in the league.

California Angels
Sacramento is your northern Cali stay.

#MLBExpansion

West Coast Raiders
Los Angeles Rams are back.  Sorry, St. Louis.

West Coast Athletics and the West Coast Raiders
Las Vegas
Portland
You're welcome.

It's now the West Coast Clippers with time in Seattle.

Reform, Alabama
A stadium is built for the Southern Belles in the NFL.  A tailgaters pilgrimage and I shut my mouth.  Louisville is the second site for the tag team.  If you build it ... .

The Jaguars are no more.  The Norde Force camps throughout CFL Canadian stadiums spreading the love out.  Speaking of Canada...

The NHL sees some changes as well.
Southland Predators play in Atlanta, also.
The Panthers are no more.  The West Coast Cattle Drive play in Austin and Las Vegas.
The Western Fleet are an expansion to Portland and Seattle with time afloat to the likes of Honolulu and Anchorage.  A special ship stadium is built - a ten thousand seat floating arena.

Thoughts?
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Friday, August 7, 2015

NHL Canadian Cities article. A vote for New Team in Nova Scotia


Street hockey in Halifax
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How many "Home" Games could be played in a Regional Model for Sports Teams? Branding or Camping them

I believe the Oakland Athletics could become the West Coast Athletics co-located in Las Vegas.  For a team to play in two places, what would be the breakdown of how many home games are where?

The Footballs:
Let's say that the NFL has 20 games total (incl. preseason).
34 for Major League Soccer, so split up it's 17 home games

You have about 40 home games for hockey and basketball, and 80 for MLB

            Camping them
MLB     80
NBA      40
NHL      40

Let's say the Oakland A's play 40 home games in Las Vegas and 40 in Oakland, Sacramento or Portland.
The West Coast Clippers play 20 games in Seattle.
The West Coast Coyotes play 20 games in Portland.

            Branding them
MLS   17 
NFL    8          (10 incl. preseason shows)

By camping (sharing) a few locations for the team name there is more of a regional love in place.

 By branding bigger and wider, there is a regional love in name.

This means something like the West Coast Raiders playing either in Oakland, Portland and Las Vegas, with maybe preseason games in all of the aforementioned locations.
West Coast FC doing Las Vegas and Los Angeles.   


Just a few examples for ya'.

Arizona Major League Soccer Franchise should be placed in Tucson
Brooklyn: Visiting the Possibility of more Pro Sports
Some is better than none?  Huddle up and think about it.
East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL
Arguably Places Where the Big Leagues Need to Be Next
Canada's Populated Places to Consider in Pro Sports Expansion
Monterrey Rays. Or Sur Toros? MLB in Mexico

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Monday, August 3, 2015

4 Base MLB Team?

Theme:  a team plays in more than one place called home.

Would cities erect something like a 20,000 seat ballpark to accommodate and host part-time Major League Baseball during regular season play for something of a home town regional name?

Las Vegas, Portland, Sacramento and Salt Lake City for West Coast
Indianapolis, Columbus, Charlotte and Buffalo for Eastland
Nashville, New Orleans, Birmingham, and Jacksonville for Southland
North Country for Vancouver, Montreal and party atmospheres in between.

Over time, cities could fall-off, be added on or break away.
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The Great Lakes Fleet Force. An NHL Club for Cleveland, Milwaukee, Indianapolis and Cincinnati

I envision Milwaukee and Cleveland as the primary targets of such a franchise, aesthetically as well as geographically, but also in the region I could see Indy and Cinci garnering great support, especially with absence making the heart grow fonder for a home-stand.

A four-city NHL team?  The Great Lakes Fleet of Cleveland and Milwaukee...and force of Indy and Cinci .... and all points in between for the region.

What do you think?  I bet it's better to have some than without, right?  Or is it too polygamisty?

Let's disband the Panthers or Coyotes to free up room for this innovation.


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                                                                                     Blustery Wisconsin and Indiana without the NHL

 Some blog samples:
East Coast Whalers of Norfolk and Hartford. A Two-Place Team in the NHL
Ohio United. Or call it an Ohio Divided Team. Cincinnati-Dayton Metroplex  
Oklahoma Oilers in the NFL 
32 Team Major League Baseball Expansion. And 5 or more MLB Cities
An NBA Team for Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and Kansas City? The Arenas will be Ready 

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