Talk:Future of Major League Baseball/@comment-65.220.92.60-20140908203206

Wow!.. tremendous waste of time put into the above...

Realistically; nobody will call themselves the "Aliens." A pretty obvious name for a Vegas Team would be the "Aces," giving both gambling and baseball connotations. And if a team goes to the VA Beach/Norfolk area they would probably try to appeal to the entire Metro Are and call it the Hampton Roads team. Maybe the Hampton Roads Ironclads? (Civil War refrence)

MLB will definitely either expand to get to 32 teams in the next 10-15 years, OR contract to 28 teams. There is no way to predict which will make more sense given the possible N.American economic changes, and interplay of TV with NFL/MLB/NBA/NCAA etc.

My best guess is that 1 team (OAK, TB, or MIA) will relocate in 6-8 years. Then either 2 teams expansion or some other major institutional change to the MLB. Perhaps a big international expansion and reorganization that looks like European Football. I could see a Post-Castro Cuba emerging from sanctions and promoting a Caribbean league that becomes a AAA+ sort of thing, and eventually merging with the MLB like the AFL did with the NFL. Pleanty of bilionaire owners would love to have their franchise become an offshore tax sheltered buisness.