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  • #151
    Originally posted by unofan View Post

    There's an MLB caliber stadium sitting empty in Omaha. Just saying.
    That would probably increase travel more than they want. That’s further west than all the central division teams.

    Per a Blue Jays source, in order of most likely, the options are now:
    Baltimore
    Travel team
    Buffalo
    Dunedin
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    • #152
      Originally posted by unofan View Post

      There's an MLB caliber stadium sitting empty in Omaha. Just saying.
      Have they ever put in a bid for a team? I'd think they could carve a huge swath of the midwest for a fanbase. Or is that the problem -- the Cardinal Way is defended by an army of lawyers?
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      • #153
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post

        Have they ever put in a bid for a team? I'd think they could carve a huge swath of the midwest for a fanbase. Or is that the problem -- the Cardinal Way is defended by an army of lawyers?
        That stadium (which is beautiful and should be on every baseball fan's bucket list) wouldn't work for regular mlb games, with fans. Way too small.
        That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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        • #154
          Originally posted by Kepler View Post

          Have they ever put in a bid for a team? I'd think they could carve a huge swath of the midwest for a fanbase. Or is that the problem -- the Cardinal Way is defended by an army of lawyers?
          Too small for a full-time team (seats 25k-ish). And Omaha's too close to Kansas City and not big enough; metro area is about 1/2 the size of Kansas City metro, which is already one of the smaller market teams in MLB.

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          • #155
            Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post

            That would probably increase travel more than they want. That’s further west than all the central division teams.

            Per a Blue Jays source, in order of most likely, the options are now:
            Baltimore
            Travel team
            Buffalo
            Dunedin
            I agree that'd be the excuse for not doing it, but in reality it's not like they're in the Carolina League and bussing everywhere; a flight from New York to Buffalo isn't significantly more strenuous than a flight from New York to Omaha.

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            • #156
              Originally posted by unofan View Post
              And Omaha's too close to Kansas City
              Huh, I guess it is at that.

              I always assume western scale for everything past the Alleghenys, and assumed Omaha was 800 miles from nowhere.

              If somebody was going to emerge as the Prairie Oklahoma City, what would it be? Des Moines? I've heard (dunno if it's true) that Des Moines is actually partially civilized.
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              • #157
                Originally posted by Kepler View Post

                Huh, I guess it is at that.

                I always assume western scale for everything past the Alleghenys, and assumed Omaha was 800 miles from nowhere.

                If somebody was going to emerge as the Prairie Oklahoma City, what would it be? Des Moines? I've heard (dunno if it's true) that Des Moines is actually partially civilized.
                To the extent it's not already Kansas City, it'd be Omaha. Omaha's closing in on the million mark for the entire metro area. Des Moines is at maybe 700k for its entire metro. After that, things shrink fast.

                You'd like Des Moines a helluva lot more than Omaha. But to support a top tier pro team, the population just isn't there. Maybe in 75 years when the northern suburbs of Des Moines merge with Ames, but in that time frame Omaha's western suburbs will have merged with Lincoln, so that doesn't really change the relative head count.

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                • #158
                  Originally posted by unofan View Post

                  To the extent it's not already Kansas City, it'd be Omaha. Omaha's closing in on the million mark for the entire metro area. Des Moines is at maybe 700k for its entire metro. After that, things shrink fast.

                  You'd like Des Moines a helluva lot more than Omaha. But to support a top tier pro team, the population just isn't there. Maybe in 75 years when the northern suburbs of Des Moines merge with Ames, but in that time frame Omaha's western suburbs will have merged with Lincoln, so that doesn't really change the relative head count.
                  It won't take 75 years. At some point a house in NYC, LA, or SF will cost more than the lifetime earnings potential of a new college graduate and all those kids dropping off the tier 1 conveyor belt, now 100% remote workers, will start colonizing places that are affordable.

                  We'll get mini-NoVas all through the South and Midwest. And remember, it only takes an emigrant wave of a few million to overwhelm the locals and start rescuing those places from Dumbf-ckistan. It worked in WA, OR, NM, and VA. It can work in IA, KS, and NE.
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                  • #159
                    Opening Day.
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                    • #160
                      Apparently the Jays will be playing in Buffalo after all.
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                      • #161
                        Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
                        Apparently the Jays will be playing in Buffalo after all.
                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIAXG_QcQNU
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                        • #162
                          Sooooo the Rays came out swinging: https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/sta...32257076289536

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                          KDR

                          Rover Frenchy, Classic! Great post.
                          iwh30 I wish I could be as smart as you. I really do you are the man
                          gregg729 I just saw your sig, you do love having people revel in your "intelligence."
                          Ritt18 you are the perfect representation of your alma mater.
                          Miss Thundercat That's it, you win.
                          TBA#2 I want to kill you and dance in your blood.
                          DisplacedCornellian Hahaha. Thread over. Frenchy wins.

                          Test to see if I can add this.

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                          • #163
                            Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                            Sooooo the Rays came out swinging: https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/sta...32257076289536
                            Holy sh-t.
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                            • #164
                              How coincidental, Fox Sports Detroit, now
                              owned by Sinclair, doesn’t show the BLM recognition or anthem live. First ever Opening Day I can recall that happening.
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                              • #165
                                Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                                Sooooo the Rays came out swinging: https://twitter.com/RaysBaseball/sta...32257076289536
                                Wow. From the top rope!

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