Would Charlotte Support The Tampa Rays?

[Carolina Husker]

There's a reason we're the Carolina Panthers and not the Charlotte Panthers.

[pstall]

tv markets and no stadium built at first so the best place to play was in SC?

[Carolina Husker]

Charlotte's not big enough to support it alone, and even the people that are here are more college basketball fans than anything else.

[Carolina Husker]

Side note: We're still better in every conceivable way than Raleigh.

[jbland]

I would love to see Baseball in NC. However they would go to the triangle before they went to Charlotte. Less competition.

[charlotte49er]

Jerry Reese thinks big. You think small. I can't help that.

And Jerry Reese is a f'ing idiot!

Charlotte won't even support the Bobcats and lately has even had questions about supporting the Panthers.

South Florida is terrible at supporting teams anyway. Just ask the Jaguars who had to tarp over seats to consistently meet the NFL's sell out rule.

I don't care how many lawsuit Reese bring against the city, there no way that it would support a MLB team.

Build a stadium for the Knight to play Uptown before the city spends more money it doesn't have to build a bigger stadium. This is NOT the Field of Dreams! "If you build it they will come!" Shoeless Joe Jackson isn't coming back from the dead to play for the Charlotte Rays!

[CarolinaKid704]

MLB should take its market to asia

[charlotte49er]

MLB should take its market to asia

Great idea. Only problem with that is jet lag. I always thought that Calgary would get a team. I guess since Montreal didn't workout, Calgary was out of the question.

[Zaximus]

I think a Charlotte team could do as well as some of the other teams, not saying those are great though. The thing about Charlotte is, I believe we'd have a lot of people traveling here to watch a baseball team. People travel to Atlanta from pretty far away to see the Braves and have been for a while. Virginia/WV/NC, etc, have tons of Braves fans cause it's the closest team for most of those people. If we got a team, and had a decent broadcast deal so those states could view games, I think we'd be OK after a few years. Still, would be hard.

[Grammer]

florida marlins game

[Hawk]

send a team back to Montreal!

[mmmbeans]

florida marlins game

holy crap.

[Hawk]

everyone was in the can watching the cheerleaders making out?

[SOJA]

florida marlins game

that can't be real