Connecticut To Get A MLB Team?
by Ryan McKeen
I haven’t written about baseball on this site in a long time but this topic is too good to pass up.
There are smart people in the Major League Baseball offices wondering if there’s hope of even discussing a potential move of the Rays to New Jersey or Southern Connecticut over certain protests from the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox and Phillies. - Peter Gammons, MLB.com 1/22/201o
With all the recent talk of a Springfield-New Haven rail line, how cool would it be to hop on a train in Hartford after work, head down to New Haven, grab some pizza, and watch the Red Sox? A man can dream.
To quote Rogers Hornsby “People ask me what I do all winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
Whether or not a team ever comes to Connecticut, who knows? It’s probably not going to happen and I blame the Yankees for that. For now, I’m content to read Gammons, drink coffee on a cold January morning, and stare out the window and wait for spring.
January 29th, 2010 at 11:09 am
There’s a huge open space in Bridgeport right along the turnpike that would be perfect!
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February 5th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Ryan – Keep dreamin’ and I’ll be dreamin’ right there with you! The fact that Gammons even made that statement gives a glimmer of hope of an MLB team in, say, New Haven or Bridgeport, but we all might be long gone by the time it ever happens! A major league team sandwiched geographically between two major market teams (Boston and New York)? A tall order for sure, not to mention the influence of the Mets and Phillies to put the squeeze on any possibility of it.
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Ryan Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 8:23 am
Keeping a 3rd team out of the NY Metro Area is the sole reason that MLB’s anti-trust exemption matters.
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February 16th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
I think it would draw more fans than people thing. Throw the Rays in CT, smack dab in the middle of Boston and New York, and knowing that each of those 2 teams will be playing @ (the Rays) in CT. Fans like myself from Connecticut would attend many games. And tickets wouldnt be totally overpriced imo.
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