Chicago Fanatics Message Board • View topic - Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

View unanswered posts | View active topics

Board index » CHICAGO AND NATIONAL TEAMS » MLB

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]

Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Page 2 of 2

[ 40 posts ]

Go to page Previous 1, 2

Print view

Previous topic | Next topic

Author

Message

HawaiiYou

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 5:55 pm

Joined: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:22 pm
Posts: 24674
pizza_Place: It's gone

Curious Hair wrote:

Mexico City is 7,400 feet above sea level and the air is full of suspended particles of shit. Kinda rather not. I think MLB looked at moving the Expos to Monterrey, though.

Norfolk or Virginia Beach is mildly intriguing but the Orioles and Nats would throw a bitchfit.

Didnt the expos play in Puerto Rico for a year before moving to DC?

Top

Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:06 pm

Joined: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:29 pm
Posts: 57248
Location: Kilfish, Ill.
pizza_Place: Lou Malnati's

HawaiiYou wrote:

Curious Hair wrote:

Didnt the expos play in Puerto Rico for a year before moving to DC?

No, they played about a third of their 2003 and 2004 home schedules in San Juan, but they were still the Montreal Expos.

FUN FACT: because of a hurricane, an Expos@Marlins game in '04 got moved to Comiskey. Sinicalypse was probably there.

_________________

Molly Lambert wrote:

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Top

Frank Coztansa

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:45 pm

100000 CLUB

Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:17 pm
Posts: 102681
pizza_Place: Vito & Nick's

I was there for both of those games. Marlins went 2-0. I still have the ticket stubs somewhere.

FUN FACT 2: Josh Beckett is the only pitcher to ever get a hit at New Comiskey/ The Cell/ The Rate.

_________________

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

It's more fun to be a victim

Caller Bob wrote:

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Last edited by Frank Coztansa on Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Top

Frank Coztansa

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 6:46 pm

100000 CLUB

Joined: Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:17 pm
Posts: 102681
pizza_Place: Vito & Nick's

FavreFan wrote:

HawaiiYou wrote:

I've heard rumors for the last 10 years or so about an expansion team in Mexico. Not sure where that is now.

It's still right below the US.

_________________

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

It's more fun to be a victim

Caller Bob wrote:

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

Top

rogers park bryan

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:26 am

Joined: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:16 pm
Posts: 81625

Id prefer fewer teams, better talent.

Top

IMU

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:38 am

Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:05 am
Posts: 25181
Location: Cultural Mecca
pizza_Place: Pequod's / Barnaby's

FavreFan wrote:

HawaiiYou wrote:

I've heard rumors for the last 10 years or so about an expansion team in Mexico. Not sure where that is now.

It's still right below the US.

_________________
Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Top

pittmike

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:49 am

Joined: Mon May 02, 2011 4:29 pm
Posts: 41194
Location: Everywhere
pizza_Place: giordanos

_________________
Elections have consequences.

Top

One Post

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:13 pm

Joined: Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:28 am
Posts: 4144

Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:

Curious Hair wrote:

20 years will be the longest baseball has gone without expansion since the expansion era began. I think the talent is there for 50+ more major leaguers, but I don't think the markets are.

There should be at least one more team in New York.

At least one.

The market could more than support it, but good luck getting the Mets and Yankees to agree to have their revenue streams and value immediately reduced by a not insignificant amount.

It's like the NHL, they have struggled for years trying to place franchises into markets and getting them to be successful. The consensus is if Toronto would get a second team it would be one of the five most valuable franchises the day after it was founded.

Top

pittmike

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:20 pm

Joined: Mon May 02, 2011 4:29 pm
Posts: 41194
Location: Everywhere
pizza_Place: giordanos

It might even make sense to put a third NY team on the outskirts in the direction of CT. A lot of people seem to live out that way and work in NYC. Or some may want to go to the game without going into the city.

_________________
Elections have consequences.

Top

Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 4:28 pm

Joined: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:29 pm
Posts: 57248
Location: Kilfish, Ill.
pizza_Place: Lou Malnati's

pittmike wrote:

The Bronx is already in the direction of Connecticut: Yankee Stadium is on the railroad lines that go to Fairfield County and the Hudson Valley, and you've gotta believe those areas are dyed-in-the-wool Yankees (and NY Giants) fans. A third team would have to be oriented toward Jersey. I'm guessing Madison Square Garden would either own the team or at least the TV rights (MSG hasn't had baseball since the Yankees started YES).

_________________

Molly Lambert wrote:

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Top

Page 2 of 2

[ 40 posts ]

Go to page Previous 1, 2

Think we'lll ever get to 32 teams?

Who is online