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DON’T BE CHANGING ANY NAMES!!!!!!
How sad we are still a “minor league” team in baseball. And worse yet, we are in a partnership with a city that is SMALLER than we are. If anything it exemplifies the lack of confidence Indianapolis has as a city. We don’t have nearly as many corporate headquarters of major companies as the smaller cities that do. Cities like Detroit, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and Kanas City that have had major league baseball teams for over a hundred years have that “confidence” that we seem to lack. When you drive into Indianapolis, you only have four major buildings (Lucas Oil Stadium, Bankers Life and if you count museums The State Museum and Eiteljorg) that aren’t simply “knock offs” of buildings seen in places like New York or Chicago or Los Angeles. Even are newest buildings are not original in design. Indeed we even lack the confidence to use local architects and engineers too often. A baseball team is just a baseball team and its fun to go watch the Indians and its safe and small but Indianapolis should think a little bigger. Victory Field is actually designed to expand to a larger capacity if fans are ever allowed to come back to events, so its not a huge undertaking. Sure Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago (two teams) and St. Louis will not be in favor of it but in reality most people from central Indiana don’t travel to watch games in those cities on a regular basis. When the Indians were a minor team for Cincinnati, a lot more people did but that relationship is long over. We aren’t Dayton Ohio; we are just a bit larger, and probably need to act like it.
So you’re saying Indy needs confidence, which means Indy taxpayers need to subsidize another major league team’s stadium, in order to meet your definition of “major league”? No thanks.
It’s more than just the size of the core city. The cities you cite all have larger metropolitan areas and market draw. Additionally, they were major cities when Indianapolis was little more than a big town. Maybe major league when Indy’s MSA reaches 2-3 million.
The Indianapolis Indians are one of the best franchises in Minor League baseball. I wouldn’t trade them for a MLB team in a million years.
Indy’s MSA is already 2-3 million. And fairly large media market. And Victory Field was specifically designed to NOT be able to be expanded to major league size. We don’t need MLB. Would rather have MLS.
Getting a MLB team to Indy Is a lot more complicated than just throwing out it’s a great idea, and Indy is not good enough. It is also very political inside baseball i.e. owners have to agree on expansions and relocations. A number of local extremely influential and good people ( Frank McKinney JR. Art Angotti and others) who also had the inside track with MLB tried with all their heart and a lot of money but got rebuffed or more likely got back doored. I only know the gossip not the facts.
We have a great team, with a great venue and an even better league with this movement. ENJOY