Sports Teams You Would Get Rid of or Move

The NBA works best in huge, glitzy markets or small cities where it's the only pro game in town, so the Hornets or Grizzlies should go to Louisville. I think Central Jersey would be a good spot for one of the Florida baseball teams, you'd have to build a stadium in Monmouth or Ocean County to be far enough out of the New York and Philly markets.

 

Islanders to Hartford? Just a ferry boat trip away for existing fans?

Miami's building a new yard on the site of the Orange Bowl, so there will be a new ballpark bump in attendance.

 

They would appreciate that - both of them.

 

It's not like the only options for relocation are Hartford, Winnipeg and Quebec, though. Maybe Hartford's the best of that bunch, but it's a bad bunch.

And one-off attendances for novelty outdoor games don't tell you anything about a market's ability to sustain a team.

 

Sending Dan Marino packing 62-7 in his final game in '99 was pretty big for the Jaguars.

 

All that nobody this and nobody that ... did they actually World Series games were no one showed up? Did they actually televise WS games and an All-Star game where not a single person switched to that channel on TV?
I know SF-Texas wasn't a sexy matchup. But some of you snobs can't have the Red Sox or Yankees against the Dodgers or Mets every year. When did sports fans start believing they were entitled to the best teams playing monumental games every time?

Remember ... the guys for the Rangers and Giants get paid to play -- and win -- too.

 

Again with the LA shit. Again, I point out, LA lost two teams in one year.

And why doesn't anyone suggest the Bucs move to LA? Jaguars out-drew them this past season.

 

Because maybe the Bucs had an 88-game sellout streak BEFORE the 2009 season in which they had eight more sellouts aided by management buying tickets?

http://www.allbusiness.com/sports-recreation/sports-games-outdoor-recreation/11768429-1.html

I know you hate facts because they make your tiny brain hurt, which is why I love posting them and why I love the idea that you call anyone else a yokel (also love that you took my bait, your unintelligence makes you eminently predictable). Anytime you want to compare intelligence, bumpkin who thinks the arm is a muscle that needs to be used and thought he was breaking news about AOL Fanhouse getting snapped up by Sporting News and thinks Raheem Morris is a shitty coach, you let me know.

 

So the fact that NO ONE cares about the sport's championship and marque mid-season event is proof that the sport is in good shape? OK.

 

No teams will be contracted. If owners hate paying players, there's one thing they hate more, paying fellow owners, which happens in contraction.

 

One of which was owned by the senile Al Davis the other owned by a bungling Georgia Frontiere, both of which were trying to leverage the city into a new publicly financed stadium, both failed and found other cities, suckering one into a new stadium (St. Louis) and the other in a refurbished stadium in Oakland.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if club sports take the place of high school sports in the not too distant future. Because of budget issues. Our town already has a number of club sports: volleyball, soccer, hockey, baseball. If you want to play, you pay a certain fee, which covers the cost of travel, uniforms, coaches and in some instances equipment.

As much as I love the idea of anyone getting to play school sports, the reality is that if this recession lasts much longer and budgets get any tighter, school districts in many places simply won't be able to afford sports programs.