The Broad Breadth of Pro Baseball is Changing

And it's getting tighter.

baseballamerica.com/stories/evaluating-the-new-minor-league-landscape-from-a-fans-perspective

Ballpark Digest, stadium in Charlotte

And check this out:

vindy.com/news/local-news/2020/12/safe-at-home

Imagine some Tennessee Sounds taking on some sort of Carolina Mountaineers MLB

Let's hope sports like baseball drop the Lying Lives movements, so we can be Americans again.

Is baseball for the likes of Charlotte on the horizon?  Does a franchise from Nashville AND/OR Memphis sound good as the Music City Mountains, or perhaps the Tennessee Sounds ?

We've all given up on soy boy Portland.  It's little more than a USSR embassy.  It's little more than an emo furby pony play campout.  I used to be all up on the coasts boasting more baseball.  But now, to hell with Oregon.  Nashville first.  Oregon never, a chaotically gay Mayberry.

The likes of Hootie and the Blowfish frontman and future country music Hall of Famer Darius Rucker is on board, alongside a lot of folks, including some ex- A's.

bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2020/12/11/music-city-baseball-pursuit-delayed-covid-mlb-team

communityimpact.com

Is Rooting for Two Teams better for one's health ??? .... Pretend Wisconsin for instance

Green Bay, which is the state's third largest city, doesn't sustain the Green Bay Packers franchise with just Green Baybians or even Greater Green Babyians.   It no doubt breathes on Milwaukee with a substantial dose of Madison.  Considering the weekly occurrence of American football for a portion of the year, we can all figure that Wisconsin could have another NFL team coexist with the likes of Milwaukee.  

sliced from cdn.chatsports

Of course NFL expansion has its eye set on other markets, some more substantial than hugging the drawn line between Packers and Bears.  And the bigger question would be if there'd be another Chicagoland franchise before a standalone Wisconsin or just Milwaukee one.

Nonetheless, as a Milwaukian, or Madisonian, or Appletonian, or Waukeshan, ....wouldn't it be better for their health to have a backup to root for on a down 'Backer year?  A backerupper would be nice.  Call them the Wisconsin What?  Warriors, Whoppers, with obvious sponsor?  We will let logos on jerseys soon.  We're pushovers and we will allow it.  I mean, I won't be watching the blight power league by then, but whatevs'.

As a Bengalian, sorry, but my backup isn't a Brownie.  So, if it ever happened for me I'd like an Ohio-named team, if ever a franchise were to land in Columbus.

More Minor Leagues for the Leagues PLEASE !!!

 

Wikipedia: Des Moines

It would be a shame for overall minor league contraction.  It has more affordable seats, and a more Americana feel.  The NFL needs a minor league instead of a bunch of half-literate childbrained strung-out congoheads inexcusability gunking up academic grounds.  Farm systems are getting aesthetically, and many times, geographically more coherent.  If in Iowa, you are closer to the big league Cubs to the east, and the Wild and Timberwolves to the north.  It makes teams from Minnesota and Chicago more regionally/geographically palatable.  

We should see expansion, not contraction, of the minor leagues.  Baseball had the good thing going for the longest time.  Now they're cutting back on inhouse bulk development.  MLB/MiLB will argue quality not quantity.  But it might just come off as some Lean Sigma Six stuff.  Perhaps this will boost college ball, which I'm for,.... as long as it isn't some 16th grade bs scam.  The NBA got woke to the development and affiliation.  Unfortunately, the NBA is a slut with some NCAA agreement that patronizes higher learning of the 13th thru 16th grade.  I don't want baseball to be as embarrassing as football and basketball.  

Perhaps we can have an Iowa Bears in some minor league football soon ???  That'll probably translate into more hometown kids getting educated closer to home.  Root for it.  Let's try to stay away from mercenary big league ball as much as possible.  Let them be barnstormers.

Canada's NBA Champs to Join Kentucky Fried Chicken League ???

 

If the Raptors can't play in Canada per the ebonic plague, ...or rather Kung Flu, just like the Buffalo Blue Jays 2020, the Raptors could go to Louisville temporarily.  Well, in theory.

cbssports.com/nba/news/raptors-considering-louisville-as-alternative-site-for-2020-21-season-if-they-cant-play-in-canada-per-report/

However, there are apparently conflicting reports:

wdrb.com/sports/bozich-add-raptors-to-louisville-to-list-of-nba-false-starts

We illiterate?!  Or we're efficient?

MiLB's Contraction Likely College Baseball's Gain

 ....but that'll also mean more illiterate morons in American colleges.

And with the Minor League HQ moving to the Big Apple there's a heavy loss in the feel of Americana with America's pastime.  

www.wtsp.com/article/sports/mlb/report-minor-league-offices-moving-to-ny-after-nearly-50-years-in-st-pete

The Portland Potties

 That's the name of their next pro team.  Not sure when they'll ever get another team.  Maybe there'll be rainbow derbies or something.

Buffalo Blue Jays

.....Since they can't play in Toronto this year.  MLB Buffalo

artvoice.com/2020/07/28/ok-blue-jays-lets-play-ball-by-andrew-kulyk/

Seattle's name in NHL is the Kraken

nhl.nbcsports.com/2020/07/23/seattle-kraken-nhl-expansion-team-name-logo-jersey-uniform-colors

Kraken is an octopus monster from some movie

Release the Crackheads!

Hopefully they won't be singing O'Africa and kneeling before the white flag before games, ...and it's worth mentioning that Portland is entirely that much more femmy to deserve any franchises in anything anymore.

Divide Turf

If there's a Black National Anthem, then there are Black Nationals.
Good job, N Football League.  Just nifty.

It's not just OVI Lives that Matter.  You M.A.D.D., bro?

Hear about Blue Jays having to play Elsewhere ???

The gamesmanship of baseball is being banned in the Land Up Over.  Rules in Canada.

nytimes.com/2020/07/18/sports/baseball/coronavirus-blue-jays-season , even if it's many times a commie-opinionated rag.

So, likely Buffalo.  Their Trip-A city.


And here is some dreaming and scheming (a request) for Nashville:
calltothepen.com/2020/07/19/toronto-blue-jays-should-take-talents-to-nashville/
Like a 2020 only Nashville Blue Jays of sort.

Cleveland Whites and Washington Warriors

And for something like maybe a Washington Warriors, make sure to do the "white effigy" with a white nose, I guess.  Real pride in sensibility and math again.

ftw.usatoday.com/2013/10/washington-redskins-new-logos-names-contest

I'm for some Fightin' Krauts and Euros.

Technological Expansion

For the virtual clapping deal with speakers:
Should they limit it to phones with local area codes to do the clapping?  It's "home" game attendance after all.

bbc.com/news/technology-28484536

Are these the rudimentary days of our future virtual interactions?

Arkansas Democrat-Gazzette

MLB.com Alternate History

mlb.com/news/featured/the-story-of-the-los-angeles-browns-changed-baseball-forever

Those old St. Louis Browns...

but in Los Angeles.

Any other two-team towns you can see leaving for a new television and apparel market in these economically questionable times?

Mets/Yanks

Angels/Dodgers

Giants/Athletics

Orioles/Nationals

White Sox/Cubs

To another potential two-town market?  Dallas National League?  Philadelphia American? Boston National?
Does that picture evoke some Cincinnati Reds for Bengals baseball 'daze?

Or just Portland/Montreal/Charlotte?

On my mind: Hard Times, Stadiumlessness and Downsizing

I stare at lists and maps sometimes, looking for gaps and holes.  Wyoming doesn't have a baseball stadium.
baseballpilgrimages.com/ballparks

Montana has 3 with over 3k seats, and both Dakotas boasts a ballpark with over 4k.  And on a site where I've mentioned some contraction, but overall gabbed on expansion, in most cases having one team splitting time between two stadiums, MLB and their MiLB agreements look to downsizing the overall number of minor leage baseball squads.

We must all try to look forward to the future and so I won't let my mind stop wandering.  Know what a good name for a baseball team is?  The Micropolitans.  So I stare localish.

What about the Wapakoneta Micropolitans v. the Warren County Suburbanites?

Past Dayton, also in between Toledo and Columbus is the city of Lima Ohio, with a ballpark population of 50k people.  That would be a good spot of play for an Ohio Micropolitans
ballclub.  They could split time in Athens at the OU Bobcats ballfield for 4k seats.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wren_Stadium

That would take care of western and eastern Ohio, respectively.  We could go more towards the center with this multinode team.  In Chillicothe, a collegiate summer team called the Paints play in a stadium with over 3k places to park fans to watch.

I could run my mouth further on some of the bigger city metro area counties in Ohio and how the Micropolitans ball fields could be used by community baseball teams as well, but
I'll save it for another time.  I'm allowed to wish Merry Christmas to the Easter Bunny if I want.  It's America.

And something folks in the likes of Portland to Charlotte can do is invent your own phantom brand of MLB franchise logos,..... in this long meantime.  

American Amazeballs

American Amazeballs, Batman!

No Baseball ?!?!???

I stumbled across an article about a Big Ten school 

without a baseball team, and I thought, "Is this America?"

Here's some wikilove:

wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_college_baseball_teams

2 balls.  And painful strikes

Florence Yalls

There's a team independent of MLB that played in northern Kentucky called the Florence Freedom.  And in the spirit of rogue pro baseball fun, they have changed their name to Florence Yalls.

A water tower by the Florence Mall had to swap the "M" for a clever "Y" in order to cover the legality of the tower being taxpayer funded.  Drive down I-75 and you see it, just south of Cincinnati across the ol' Ohio.

fox19.com/video/2020/01/22/introducing-florence-yalls

citybeat.com/news/sports/blog/21111411/the-yalls-the-gogoettas-the-no-sox-what-should-the-florence-freedom-baseball-teams-new-name-be

www.wlwt.com

www.wlwt.com

No Big Time

Two-Town Teams MLB

Or Multi-nodal tag teams

What do you think about these?

2019 ProSportsExpansion Blog Year in Review

Big time.

A two-place team was announced in Major League Baseball, that being Montreal and Tampa.  Two-birds with one stone.  Or a bird flying between two rocks, stones, 
hard places or some such.

The inaugural FC Cincinnati took to the field in MLS.  From seed to leaf it happened very quickly.  Other non-frontrunners were added.  Finally Sacramento.  Arizona is still in talks.  Seemingly only Detroit isn't going to get big buzz with other big timers like St. Louis and Charlotte.  Raleigh may be a cross state rival in years to come.

But alas, welcome to the big time, Austin, a fast growing Texas metro.

MiLB, for all its attendance success, is looking to downsize for overhead and efficiency.  In its place, may arise a deemed "Dream League", or perhaps bolster leagues independent of MLB affiliation.
Triple-A is leaving New Orleans for Wichita in Kansas.

The NHL, and now MLB have been getting better about expanding to other venues for the sake of ambiance.  Baseball from Fort Bragg to the Field of Dreams has been neat.

Those Town Golden State jerseys may cross the bridge with the Warriors to San Fran.
The North jerseys have been the type of simple-step marketing I've been vying for on the world wide web.  I wonder how many old Vancouver Grizzlies fans touted those nifty Toronto Raptor tops.

By the way, when will Seattle NHL and St. Louis MLS get their nicknames ?
The Seattle AHL affiliate will be in Palm Springs, California.  Whatever, I guess.  Seems as though it's encroaching on Kings and Ducks territory but what the hell do I know.

AAF and XFL not fairing so well it seems.
WNBA is looking all Euro style owned by corporate brands.  Will people ever be rooting for some Coca Cola polar bears?

Las Vegas is about to welcome the Raiders move.

MLB Record breaking revenue Despite 4% Drop in Attendance

Well, we've seen expansion moving fast, particularly for MLS.  Las Vegas got an exponential double dose in a few years.  We're welcoming Austin to the Bigs.  Only one left is Louisville.