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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]This thread proves that none of you doom posters know what you're talking about. The MLB would NEVER allow the Os to move, please shut up.

Nats aren't leaving either. [/b]You all really wanna see DC fail, why is that. [/quote]

People enjoy speaking about stuff they No absolutely nothing about in order to make themselves feel smart

MLB would never let the Orioles move to Nashville.[/quote]

The media markets are similar sizes, Nashville is an up and coming city, Baltimore is slowly dying. If the Os don't get the development deal they want (the current lease bought the city time, but changed nothing), they will leave for a city that will give them a better deal be it Nashville or elsewhere. [/quote]

MLB has to approve it, and right now it's more likely the White Sox will head there, which makes more sense anyway since Chicago has two teams. There are media market reasons why it's important to the MLB to keep both the Nats and Os where they are. Nashville is an up and coming market but it's only about 2 million people (city and environs), whereas the DC-Baltimore region is 10 million and continues to grow (and whether that growth is urban or suburban is irrelevant as long as people watch baseball games, which is more important to the MLB than people attending them, sadly).

MLB could also do an expansion team in Nashville if the numbers made sense. The owners don't like to share revenues with another team, but if the deal was structured that it made the pie enough bigger, they'd vote for it. But they aren't going to agree to send profitable teams in established markets to a much smaller market. You'd also get pushback from Braves ownership because they "own" the south and have a very strong brand and will view any additional teams in the region as encroachment. It's a ridiculous argument as an outsider, but team owners have a lot of power. I mean look at the deal Angelos was able to squeeze out of the MLB in order to "allow" the Expos to move to DC.[/quote]

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