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To: Alberta's Child
I like your San Antonio suggestion? Lots of Hispanics to support them down there. Hispanics love baseball.

Sacramento may be too close to the Oakland team/San Francisco team area to be considered?

What about San Juan, PR? Two hour flying time from Miami.

26 posted on 06/11/2011 2:28:05 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: rawhide
What about San Juan, PR? Two hour flying time from Miami.

Nine hour flying time from the west coast.

36 posted on 06/11/2011 2:34:01 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: rawhide
"Sacramento may be too close to the Oakland team/San Francisco team area to be considered? "

I would love to see a MLB team here in Sacramento, but both the A's and the Giants are less than 100 miles and the cable system here covers them both.

And, with decades and a few generations of fan affinity toward both of those teams I do not see how a 3rd could gain traction.

However, any Sacramento ball park would be one very good hitters ball park. Summer evenings of 85-90 deg (perhaps cooling to 78 by 10:00pm) with little wind and 10% humidity would make for some nice fireworks. However, it would be rough for those Sunday day games which start at 1:30pm and finish when it's 105 deg.

42 posted on 06/11/2011 2:36:00 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: rawhide

San Juan has the same problem Mexico City has: It’s a poor area relative to the major U.S. markets, and wouldn’t be able to generate enough revenue to support the salaries needed to field a competitive major league roster.


58 posted on 06/11/2011 3:02:52 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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