Quote:
Originally Posted by Marvland
This is all 100% frontier gibberish. We stand abetter chance of getting an NFL team? You're smoking some good shit. Listen. Franchises aren't strictly a popularity or demographic contest. They are largely an individual and/or company driven effort. A rich person or group of rich people put their efforts together and get a franchise. Boise and Columbus? Why not Scipio? Seriously you make me laugh with your general Eeyore shtick but you've got a serious case of the shit goggles. Get outside. Go get a nice meal and a drink. Ride a river or get on a bike. We live in an incredible place.
|
Feel better?
Now join us back here on planet earth.
Yes. SLC has a better chance at landing the NFL than the MLB - and their shot at landing a NFL franchise is pretty damn small. So, take it for what it's worth. The fact is, most articles discussing MLB expansion NEVER mention Salt Lake - and there's a reason for it.
Sports Illustrated, from April. Cities they mention: Mexico City, Montreal, Vancouver, Charlotte, Portland, Austin, Las Vegas, Columbus (better write them and inform 'em how wrong they are), Nashville, New Orleans and San Antonio.
Salt Lake City is nowhere on the list. Not even a slight blurb about maybe being a potential city if any of the above fall through.
A
FOX Sports article from February. The cities they list: Montreal, Austin, Vancouver, Mexico City (or any other Latin America city), Charlotte and Nashville. Again, no mention of Salt Lake City.
Here's a
Sporting News article from January that lists eight possible expansion cities. Those cities include: Montreal, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Charlotte, Mexico City, Portland, San Juan and Nashville. Again, no SLC.
There's a consensus forming here, both with the cities that keep coming up and the ONE city that doesn't - Salt Lake City.
Here's a
Chicago Cubs blog post from February, 2015, that runs down a list of expansion cities. Suffice to say, Salt Lake City is nowhere on the list. Sacramento, Columbus, Indianapolis...they are, tho.
Here's a
CBS Sports article from May that lists Montreal and Mexico City as the next likely expansion targets.
Here's another
CBS Sports article from April that talk about the most logical expansion cities. New cities not seen above include Havana, Louisville and Brooklyn, no SLC.
To be sure, you'll find stories that throw out Salt Lake's name, but on the whole, especially in recent articles, SLC is not even afterthought - it's not a thought at all. It's not a serious expansion city. It's not on the MLB's radar at all and it's not going to happen.
Finally, last year the American City Business Journals ranked each major market by its economic capacity to host a viable MLB expansion team. The scale was 0-100, with 100 having the most economically viable capacity and 0, obviously, having the worst.
Salt Lake scored a 5.
A FIVE.
Montreal topped it at 81.
SLC was just above Syracuse and just below Columbia, South Carolina.
http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2015/04/09/capacity1.html
It's not happening. It's not me being an Eeyore to suggest SLC isn't getting a MLB team anytime soon - it's me being absolutely, positively realistic. It ain't happening. Not for a long, long time.
Prev
[/url]
Linear Mode
