Baseball Miscellany

[JimR (Coach)]

I have a friend who swears the Ryan/Sanders group already has the site.

[Col.SphinxDrummond]

@HudsonHawk

@juliogotay

There was a time when the Cards were dominant throughout the lower Midwest and the South.
Or so I’m told.

There was a time when players traveled by train from town to town and there were brass beds in the hotel rooms and brass spittoons in the lobby…

And St Louis had the only team west of the Mississippi.

[Col.SphinxDrummond]

Any idea where that might be?

[Col.SphinxDrummond]

@Doyce7

@MusicMan

@Doyce7

I wonder if Austin puts their hat in the ring over the next year

My first reaction was that SA makes more sense but I guess Austin has more corporate dollars

I’ve always thought that if the NFL expanded again and wanted a 3rd Texas team(Jerry Jones would never let this happen), San Marcos would be a great location to capture both San Antonio and Austin. Probably wouldn’t work for baseball though.

I heard a rumor from a guy at the dog park (so you know it’s the truth), he always wants to talk about pro football and he claims that some group, maybe led by Thomas J Henry, purchased a large tract of land west of I-35 off of Hunter Rd between San Marcos and New Braunfels for potential pro football stadium.

[SidDithers]

@Col.SphinxDrummond

I heard a rumor from a guy at the dog park (so you know it’s the truth)

You put it on the internet so it’s double plus true now.

[JimR (Coach)]

Yep, but I doubt he wants me to say. I do not know if he is right or wrong, but he is adamant about it.

[moriarty]

Ryan/Sanders with a site anywhere in the Austin or San Antonio areas would be a hell of a contender. Great market plus the most credible baseball ownership/management group I can think of. I’m sure Crane and the Rangers owners would scream bloody murder but I don’t know if they could really stop it (I know very little about how expansion turf wars get fought).

[Knoxbanedoodle (Devin Walsh)]

Who is Sanders, please?

[Duman (Steve)]

With Nashville hitting the trifecta of being in Reds/Braves/Cards territory, it would make sense that the Nashville team would be an AL team.
Less conflict with traditional fans until the World series and add the fact that there is no AL team between Cleveland and Tampa.

[Doyce7 (Doyce Kirkland)]

I’m curious about how divisions would line up. Baseball doesn’t want to go back to uneven divisions. I hate the idea of 4 team divisions like the NFL, I would go with 8 team divisions and keep the postseason the number it is now but just 4 WC instead of 3 and 2 division winners rather than 3.

[Lefty]

Nashville, Portland or Charlotte, please. Say NO to Austin/SA/I35

[JimR (Coach)]

Don A. Sanders - University of Houston System.

[JimR (Coach)]

Why do you think it is on I35?

[Doyce7 (Doyce Kirkland)]

I would have no issue with a 3rd Texas team

[MusicMan (Michael Shopoff)]

I think it’s almost a certainty they’ll go to 8 4-team divisions. Not sure if they’ll follow the radical models that would have things like NYY/NYM/BOS/PHI but I’m sure they want more geographical proximity.

[Lefty]

Because, in theory, it would be on the I35 corridor between Austin and SA.

[austro (Mark)]

@JimR

Why do you think it is on I35?

I don’t think he’s necessarily talking about any Ryan/Sanders property per se (and maybe you aren’t either), just the general received wisdom that would have such a facility landing in the corridor.

[Doyce7 (Doyce Kirkland)]

I just hate the idea of 4 team divisions in baseball. I do agree that’s probably what they will go with

[AstrosFanInBigD]

At some point they were talking about balancing the schedule and ditching the division format.

I don’t know how many focus groups ago that was.

[Knoxbanedoodle (Devin Walsh)]

That’s what I thought they were headed toward. An NBA model. I thought this year’s balanced schedule was a decisive step in that direction.