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For God's sake, you don't contract teams when the country is going to add the population and wealth the equivalent of the nation of Canada in the next decade.
San Juan will never get a team. Puerto Rico is dirt poor in comparison to the mainland. There is practically no industry. Government employs 25% of the workforce. Their debt load is $70 billion dollars and the population is emigrating to the mainland.
San Jose and Sacramento may never get the A's. The Giants will keep the A's out of their territory and the A's ownership is very dismissive of moving there.
No one is going to permit a new franchise in LA or NYC. That would threaten the TV revenues of the existing clubs.
I struggle with believing that Portland would build a $500 million dollar stadium downtown.
It may sound strange, but, the best chance to see MLB expansion in the next decade might be in Canada (welcome back to Montreal) and Mexico. Mexico might end up with a few hundred billion dollars a year in extra revenue if they are serious about liberalizing their oil industry.
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