[LSPaul]

The move to get a Mexican League Soccer team is probably a move to scare the MLS. They fear a league with better players and much greater fan loyalty competing in their backyard. Such a team in San Antonio would suck a large part of the fan base the MLS is after away from any team that might play in Austin.

That said all Major League sports in the US are very monopolistic and haven't keep up with population growth and shifting demographics. The NFL, for example, expanded to 32 teams in 2002. Since then the US population has grown nearly 15 percent. Also, they have teams in some very old and small markets (Buffalo being the best example) and too many teams concentrated in others (LA and NY and, until now SF Bay area with two teams each) and no teams in growing newer markets (SA, Portland, Orlando to name a few). But the team owners like it that way because they can limit the "supply" to keep the price of their product high and the players like it for pretty much the same reason.