I’m looking forward to the likelihood college baseball will be elevated over MLB viewership. But I’m talking about MLB in Nashville and Memphis over Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, both markets about 250 miles away from Hotlanta.
Yes, baseball shot down a two-place team, and maybe it wasn’t the right fit in the form of Montreal and Tampa. But the Florida Marlins should be reborn as a two place team at St.Pete and Miami, freeing up a franchise a la Rays to Charlotte, and MLB can expand to Montreal/Vancouver and Nashville/Memphis. I think both the Tennessee and Carolina big brands of baseball can play in new 25k seat stadiums in the era of the TV being more lucrative than ticket. And they should share time with a nice minor league park, like in Memphis and Raleigh. Smaller, more romantic and right-sized parks and more hearts grown fonder. Charlotte has MiLB cheerleaders. So does Nashville.
