_lefraud_ said:

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Is there an "Arlington" that could make a play for a SA/Austin stadium/franchise?

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Arlington is the 50th largest city in the US with a population of over 400,000.

It is not the smallest city that hosts a MLB team. Anaheim, Cincinnati, St. Louis and St. Petersburg are smaller.

The biggest city between Austin and Sam Antonio is New Braunfels, at only about 120,000.

Arlington had a population of 90,000 in 1970, which was probably around #130 range across the US. They came in at #95 in 1980 with 160,000

So it was more of a question could a city between SA & Austin become Arlington, but as stated by another poster, those two cities are much further apart.

I was a long time San Antonio resident, I would not recommend looking for a city in between. You'd just end up being too far from both cities and making it inconvenient.

Personally if I had to make the choice, I'd pick somewhere in the La Cantera area suburbs (10 mile radius). You're not getting anyone from Austin during the week, but the weekends you probably will. That location also gives easy access to hill country families without forcing them to drive through a downtown area or way around the loop.

Zero chance it happens though.

_lefraud_ said:

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Is there an "Arlington" that could make a play for a SA/Austin stadium/franchise?

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East SA

jja79 said:

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Diamondbacks aren't in the same time zone as Colorado and SLC.

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Actually, they are. Its just that Zona doesn't have DST for some stupid reason so they aren't on the same time -- which is, I guess, what was meant. But Arizona IS in the Mountain Time Zone.

I live in Arizona. We're on Mountain Standard Time year round. Presently SLC and Denver are on Mountain Daylight Savings Time. We're not on the same time zone with them until they fall back to Mountain Standard. It's awesome not changing the clock twice a year.

The stupid reason, as you called it, is so that people that work outside during summer can start at 5AM and be done around noon before it's 115 degrees.

It's not really expansion, but it did lead to expansion...

OTD in 1957, the New York (baseball) Giants played their last game at the Polo Grounds in NYC.

The Giants and Dodgers would move to the West Coast to start the 1958 season. (Leading, in a couple of years, to the expansion NY Mets.)