Clem Fandango

Miami is the 8th largest metro area in the country. Population does not equal ticket sales. Large cities with crap attendance doesn't make it any more likely that there will be small cities with great attendance. I know, which is why using population as a reason for starting a franchise in a city is a foolish notion. Tampa is a Top 20 population region and they've been an excellent ball club for about half a decade now and still can't draw good attendance figures. So if population doesn't matter, and a good team doesn't matter, what does to that god forsaken state? Is putting yet another team in Florida where people obviously don't care about baseball a wise move? It's hard enough enticing new fans to a team in your area when you've spent your whole life rooting for another club, and most of the people in Florida either grew up caring about the Braves or transplanted from the north and are Yankee and Red Sox fans. A place like Portland is perfect cause it's smack dab between the bay area and Seattle so it's kind of a neutral zone where if they got a baseball team they'd likely support the hell out of it because they finally have something to call their own. I just happen to think New Orleans could be the same way is all.

Miami is the 8th largest metro area in the country. Population does not equal ticket sales.

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surrounding states don't really help for attendance on 81 game seasons. I'm speaking in terms of fan support, not ticket sales. Even then, the gulf coast is easily navigable. Mobile is only 2 hours away from New Orleans. Gulfport/Biloxi, MS only an hour. And they got Baton Rouge not too far away. New Orleans is a day trip for people on the gulf coast. When people plan to go to Braves games they need to plan out well in advance and secure lodging and you spend, at minimum, a half day travelling. There would be lots of people taking the drive over to go see a baseball game and driving back after in New Orleans. They do it already for Saints games, and sure it wouldn't be every home game for a baseaball team because there's so many games, but it also wouldn't be one game a year like many have to treat a Braves game, which is the closest ML team that people support. Atlanta is the 9th largest metro area in the US, New Orleans is 45th. It would be a horrible spot for major league baseball. Yeah, I love New Orleans as much as anyone who has never lived there, but it would be a disaster. There is very little business community (impacts suite purchases, etc...), the Pelicans have limited fan support and the freaking Saints were exploring moving to San Antonio before Katrina made the owner feel bad and keep the team there. New Orleans is a great place and their LSU and recent Saints fan support is excellent, but it is not a very good candidate for a MLB franchise. Fair enough, but as someone who lives in the area and witnesses the immense support the city gets, I happen to think it would work out.

surrounding states don't really help for attendance on 81 game seasons. I'm speaking in terms of fan support, not ticket sales. Even then, the gulf coast is easily navigable. Mobile is only 2 hours away from New Orleans. Gulfport/Biloxi, MS only an hour. And they got Baton Rouge not too far away. New Orleans is a day trip for people on the gulf coast. When people plan to go to Braves games they need to plan out well in advance and secure lodging and you spend, at minimum, a half day travelling. There would be lots of people taking the drive over to go see a baseball game and driving back after in New Orleans. They do it already for Saints games, and sure it wouldn't be every home game for a baseaball team because there's so many games, but it also wouldn't be one game a year like many have to treat a Braves game, which is the closest ML team that people support.

New Orleans is big enough for a team, and it's a city that is fiercely loyal to their sports franchises and their reach extends into surrounding states.

Rome wasn't built in a day. There's only so much Bosio can do in a short time span while working with an entire staff at the same time. Although Turner has been rough, I'm more concerned about his health given his past shoulder concerns during his prospect days.

I think it's the latter since it's like, you know, the first thing he says :-)

Not even close. Jackson had 20-20 potential with a fairly high BB rate and solid CF defense. His upside vs. present day Coghlan is a silly comparison.

I knew Trout K'd a bit, but gottdam It's funny he'll win the MVP in his worst statistical year.

To his credit, it was an 8 pitch AB (I think)

He only threw 35 pitches so he'll probably start tomorrow. Or at least he should, so he can break once more and we never have to see him pitch again

Its usually silent during breaks....they really put in a U2 song? BLEH I think people who don't have an adblocker get commercials. I never get any commercials on Chrome/Firefox, but if I'm on a mobile device I get commercials all day long

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I'd rather roll the dice with Turner/Straily/Dubront and hope they get some Bosio magic vs. signing Hammel again. They could be just as effective and cost next to nothing compared to Hammel. They need someone like Lester, they don't really need someone like Hammel.

Samardzija is the bad luck guy

For a split second I thought this was a 7 year old post I had randomly stumbled upon through some sort of glitch

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Turns out Ron Washington resigned because he cheated on his wife. http://espn.go.com/dallas/mlb/story/_/id/11548096/former-texas-rangers-manager-ron-washington-asks-forgiveness-was-not-true-my-wife

Those things are kind of awesome

If you put chicken and veggies on a deep dish pizza it's super healthy

Does South Bend still use the pony express to deliver mail, too? Do they use a 14.4 modem to connect to Prodigy to post box scores? I don't think I understand why this is "sad" news for people who don't listen to radio broadcasts too get their information.

Long distance commercial space travel hasn't been invented yet, don't be silly