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This is a first: The Tampa Bay Rays have received MLB's permission to explore becoming two-city team: the Tampa Bay area and Montreal area -- (link)

Posted by decline (aka Decline) Jun 20 '19, 10:45

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https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1141761834434871297 (twitter.com)

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This sounds like a failure in the making, but one factor to consider is the number of Canadians who winter on Florida's west coast. -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 11:10 9
- which would be great if baseball was played in December and January. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:26
- "winter". -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:11 5
  - When it comes to Florida, that's an official verb - ty97 Jun 20, 11:14 4
    - i know what it means. :) I was referring to the fact that baseball is NOT played in the winter. -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:16 3
      - Winter in Canada is 10 months long -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 11:32
      - It only *feels* that way in April, May and October. -- nm - Diva Jun 20, 11:24 1
        
        :) -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:25
- That's the theory behind the Florida Panthers and yet... -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:11 1
  - I don't think it alone is nearly enough to carry a team by any means -- nm - ty97 Jun 20, 11:15
WHAT?! -- nm - Mop Jun 20, 10:58 20
- let's split the team between 2 cites that baseball failed in! -- nm* - groiny Jun 20, 11:03 19
  - Montreal had fan support but it's impossible to overstate how bad Olympic Stadium was. -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:05 18
    - (and Loria fuuuuuuucked the team) -- nm - Reagen Jun 20, 11:08 17
      - then they should go back to Montreal and hopefully get a new park. - groiny Jun 20, 11:09 16
        
        I mean, probably. - Reagen Jun 20, 11:10 15
        
        right, that is what makes this even worse, you could have 2 cities in the vicinity, that would make alot of sense. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:19 14
        
        Toronto currently has a rugby team. They play in a BRITISH league. All the other teams are in the UK. - Andie Jun 20, 11:21 13
        
        that is a little different than sharing the team between 2 cities 20 hours apart. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:21 12
        
        But does that really matter? I'm sure both cities would have all the games televised. They'd still be able to go to games when they want. In this - pmb Jun 20, 11:27 2
        
        so you have 2 stadiums to keep up for 1/4 max attendance all the time. - groiny Jun 20, 11:29 1
        
        There are definitely challenges, but your starting assumption of 1/4 max attendance presumes a result that may not be justified. - pmb Jun 20, 11:33
        
        I mean, what currency would players even get *paid*in!?! -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:23 1
        
        Quebec Francs. -- nm - Shaun Jun 20, 11:27
        
        oh, it is, and i don't know if the sharing thing would work, but i can see a way that it might. -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:22 6
        
        and how would the players get paid? half their check taxed by Canada, the other half taxed by Florida? -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:23 5
        
        Probably, yes. As it is athletes have to pay taxes in all the states they play in on some basis. So it wouldn't be that much more difficult. -- (link) - pmb Jun 20, 11:37
        
        ::high five:: -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:25 2
        
        150 dollars. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:26 1
        
        (worth it) -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:36
        
        i assume the legal entity would exist in the country with the best tax laws for rich people. (aka, the US.) -- nm - Andie Jun 20, 11:24
The Tampa Bay Montreal X-Rays -- nm - Jovian Jun 20, 10:56
why????? -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 10:50 10
- I would assume because the fan base isn't large enough in Tampa to sustain the team any longer -- nm - decline Jun 20, 10:55 9
  - they get 5 or 10 k a game now, is less games going to equal more people???? - groiny Jun 20, 11:01 8
    - It might help because there are fewer tickets to sell overall. A season ticket package will cost half as much. The person who sees 5 games a year - pmb Jun 20, 11:05 5
      - I am sure I told the story before, I had tickets to the game there where Wade Boggs got hit #3000..... - groiny Jun 20, 11:08 4
        
        if you tried to drive to a Jays game, if you even found parking, it would cost you a billion dollars. - Andie Jun 20, 11:18 3
        
        and having seen the outside of your park, I was impressed with it. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:22
        
        Well, it is rather building locked. -- nm - Spawn Jun 20, 11:21
        
        in a vacation town like Tampa, I would think you would want to offer parking for vacationers. -- nm - groiny Jun 20, 11:20
    - I guess the answer to that is going to be part of the study. - Marlowe Jun 20, 11:03 1
      - it just seems like Florida is not a baseball state. - groiny Jun 20, 11:04
That's kind of brilliant. I wonder how playoff games would work. - David Jun 20, 10:46

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