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, basketball 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….