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[mweb08]

Btw, I'm posting from our new place a couple blocks from Camden Yards!

 
You need to come over to the park and say hi, so we can have an awkward conversation.

Oh fun. Maybe I'll do a tour sometime.

[DJ MC]

Me personally, there is no way I'd give up my team (a team I've followed for 15+ years...my hometown team) for a new one.

 

Now if there are general baseball fans up there that don't really follow a specific team, then that might work. I just don't know how many of those you would have.

 

Think of it more like a Nats-O's situation. Where many people down there rooted for the Orioles, but when Washington got their team they switched to their new home team. A lot of people in New Jersey would at least consider them their second team to start, and over time that would evolve into a serious fanbase.

[BSLChrisStoner]

Oh fun. Maybe I'll do a tour sometime.

Heard the old tour guys were better...

[mweb08]

The highest issue with a new NYC team is getting loyal fans to switch allegiances. I don't see that being all that likely for the vast majority if the population. At least in the short-term.

[DJ MC]

Heard the old tour guys were better...

 

You need better sources.

[fishteacher]

Me personally, there is no way I'd give up my team (a team I've followed for 15+ years...my hometown team) for a new one.

 

Now if there are general baseball fans up there that don't really follow a specific team, then that might work. I just don't know how many of those you would have.

Isn't that something the Nats had hoped for?  Dismayed O's fans to jump ship?!  Yeah, fuck that!  No way would I bail on my team!

[Chris B]

Think of it more like a Nats-O's situation. Where many people down there rooted for the Orioles, but when Washington got their team they switched to their new home team. A lot of people in New Jersey would at least consider them their second team to start, and over time that would evolve into a serious fanbase.

 

Yeah, I think, as you've said, the only realistic place to put the new team to generate a solid core of fans is somewhere in Jersey or maybe Connecticut.

[mweb08]

Oh fun. Maybe I'll do a tour sometime.

Heard the old tour guys were better...

Can't be worse, right?

[fishteacher]

Tommy Hunter has that SWAGGER back from last year when he tore shit up as a 7th inning option.  

[Chris B]

Yankees lost, Jays about to lose.

[fishteacher]

Nice play Flaherty.....why didn't we just leave DAvis at 1st?!

[Russ]

That was a sweet hop for Davis that he whiffed on like a 1-2 fastball.

[fishteacher]

Yankees lost, Jays about to lose.

Damn....making a HUGE RUN on those douchebags!

[SportsGuy]

Flaherty just pulled a Roger Dorn.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Win column.

[Markus]

Now we're 3-2 on the roadtrip.

[fishteacher]

Flaherty would not ahve caught that ball.....nice job Davis!  

 

Awesome game! 

 

We just best the Sux two best pitchers back to back....so much for THAT DISCUSSION!  

 

WIN COLUMN!!!!!!!!!!

[DJ MC]

The highest issue with a new NYC team is getting loyal fans to switch allegiances. I don't see that being all that likely for the vast majority if the population. At least in the short-term.

 

It wouldn't be a short-term plan, though.

 

People will go to games there because it is closer, and because it would be (most likely) less expensive than going to Yankee Stadium or Citi Field. Even if they don't switch right away, they will become invested in the team. Kids who grow up going to that park will grow up as fans. New residents moving to the region will choose the new team over the Yankees or Mets. All of that combines into a real fanbase. Maybe not five years out, but ten or fifteen.

[DerekESR]

Twenty over, y'all. Twenty.

[GabeFerguson]

20 games over .500

 

Pretty impressive