(12-18-2017 12:42 AM)_C2_ Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 09:43 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(12-17-2017 12:19 PM)bluesox Wrote:  32 does make sense but hard to see it happen without fixing Oakland and TB stadiums.

This.

MLB will let the A's and Rays have the option (or just threat) of moving elsewhere in order to get their ballpark issues settled. There won't be any serious discussion of expansion until those two franchises are done with their efforts to get new ballparks.

The Giants should get with the program and let the A's move to San Jose. Or the A's can get with the program and realize that, relatively speaking, the Bay Area isn't as large as it used to be and move somewhere else, like Portland.

What do you mean by that? Relative to what? Portland metro population is about 2 MM; Bay Area is 7.