Why does the state of Florida even have major league baseball teams?
Question:i.e. Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Florida Marlins. Year after year, attendence is poor. Even after the Marlins brought two World Series rings to Miami, it doesn't seem like anyone there cares about baseball. They can't get stadiums built and no one goes to the games. Perhaps Floridians just aren't passionate about baseball like people in New York and Boston. Football will always be king in Florida. So why bother?
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It made perfect sense for baseball to move into Florida, because it was, and is, a rapidly expanding market. The first wave of baseball expansion was very painful, with teams such as the Dodgers, Giants, Senators, Browns and A's leaving their markets to relocate. Baseball apparantly would rather expand the number of teams and revenue bases than shuffle teams around and exit markets. Washington/Montreal and Milwaukee/Seattle are counter examples - but reasonable ones.The Seatle Pilots were in bankruptcy and the Montreal Expos would probably have ended up there. Baseball has taken some fairly extraordinary steps to ensure that teams will not move. I don't believe at all that Baseball was at all serious about "Contraction." "Contraction" came up when baseball started to run out of places to threaten to move teams without encroaching on existing teams marketing regions. (There will be no San Jose Brewers, San Antonio Twins, or Columbus Royals, even though those markets are larger and growing.)
The problem with Florida is actually with the fans. They have not shown up. There are several theories for this. There is the "Fixed Income" idea that Florida is full of old people who retired, who continue to root for their teams up North, don't have the disposable income to attend games and aren't willing to increase their taxes to pay for a new stadium. That is the "stubborn old coots" argument, but if you actually go to Florida, you find that the state's population is made up of more than retirees.
New stadiums would help generate interest in the teams, but I do believe that people are willing to watch football in that stadium in Miami, so it can't be the pit of the Earth.
My guess is that it just takes more time than baseball hoped to build a loyal fan base who would be willing to organize politically on behalf of the team and push through a new stadium. Until then, I would not expect the politicians to continue to call MLB's bluff and not help ownership out with new stadium deals and risk their political lives with tax increases. Where the teams going to move? Charlotte? San Juan? Mexico City? Tokyo?
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cause florida is like a great city. beaches are nice and tourists go to the games.Why do pitchers wear a jacket if they get on base?
I agree with you but they should keep at least one of the teams so they could get all the attendance.Is asking your offense to score 16 runs for support asking a lot?
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Yeah, ur right. Florida has appearantly no interest in baseball. They have great young, up-comming teams and no one goes out to see them. It's really a shame.There was actually once a baseball league for former players in Florida (because there are so many elderly people living there) and it flopped as well. The Marlins and Devil Rays should consider leaving Florida. Portland and Las Vegas would be glad to have teams. However, they'd need a realignment to allow the Florida teams to move there. How about this;
AL East
Baltimore
Boston
New York
Toronto
AL Central
Chicago
Cleveland
Detroit
Kansas City
Minnesota
AL West
Los Angeles of Anaheim
Oakland
Portland D-Rays
Seattle
Texas
NL East
Atlanta
New York
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Washington
NL Central
Chicago
Cincinnati
Houston
Milwaukee
St. Louis
NL West
Arizona
Colorado
Las Vegas Marlins
Los Angeles
San Diego
San Francisco
Wouldn't this help to clean up the mess baseball created by putting 2 teams in a state that couldn't care less. Plus it would give teams to the 2 cities that want them the most at the moment. The realignment also makes sense.
Basically, Florida has two teams because the two cities involved used to be the places to which other teams would threaten to move. Those teams included but are far from limited to the White Sox and the Twins.
Every time that a team wanted a new stadium, built with all or a lot of public funding, they would threaten to move the franchise to a Florida city. At one point, in fact, the Illinois state legislature stopped the clock that was visible on the chamber floor so that they could continue to debate and then vote on a resolution that had a deadline of midnight that night. The resolution was whether or not to fund the current park. Not funding it would have had the Chisox moving to St Petersburg.
The impostor truly hates the idea of relocating franchises (it took a number of years of stupidity by MLB before they actually approved moving the Expos to Washington), despite the fact that he himself owned a franchise in Milwaukee only because it had moved from Seattle. Hypocrite.. By putting teams in Florida, MLB made certain that teams couldn't use that relocation as a threat.
MLB will NEVER put a team in Nevada because of the state's gaming laws.
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I Say that they should take out one of the teams because the people are to worried about beaches other than baseball in florida.More Questions & Answers...