Loved most of your comments, but had to laugh at this one. Been to Buffalo lately? Or even nearby Rochester?
Both are poster children for once great towns in decline. (Their motto: "At least Detroit is doing worse!") Rochester has the once great Taj Mahal of Eastman-Kodak headquarters. Buffalo has the buffalo statues by the interstates which are kind of cool.
Beyond that, they have far more history to brag about than present. Buffalo manages to support a fairly pathetic NFL and NHL franchise because they are football and hockey crazy. Both Buffalo and Rochester manage to support (barely) AAA baseball teams which are only marginally successful both at the box office and on the field.
Not exactly the ingredients necessary to support a MLB franchise even if you could combine both markets, which I think is doable if the other ingredients were in place. But they're not.
Ha, well I was thinking Buff. never did get an MLB team.. I haven’t really been in Buffalo other than driving thru it on way to Toronto and even that was awhile ago. Rochester too—
in the 90s, maybe...but I can picture them being in decline
easily.
But yes you can lump Buff. in with those cities that prob wouldn’t do well if they got an MLB team.