Boston Sox and Secrets of Better MLB Teams – Surrounded With Baseball League Fanatics

The city of Boston is closely surrounded with Boston Red Sox minor league affiliated teams. North, West, and South are covered, and to the East is the Atlantic Ocean. We’ve got 3 of the 4 directions covered. That is about as well covered as is possible. And, we have been winning. I believe that a part of that winning has to do with the expansive area that may call the Boston Red Sox their home team.

Boston has a lot going for it, especially what I am calling the secret to winning at baseball, meaning creating loyal baseball fans at high density. Though technically not a really big city; Boston population density is found in the metropolitan coastal areas. This is a part of developing the attention of the metropolitan Boston area, making for crazy crazed baseball fans.

To the southwest, of course we have the Pawtucket Red Sox who are affiliated with the Boston Red Sox, playing at the AAA level. The Pawtucket Red Sox seem to do no wrong, winning their division probably more frequently than any other team.

I can’t stress enough that Cape Cod, southeast of Boston, is home to the Cape Cod Baseball League, which although not directly Boston Red Sox affiliated, this area makes for a strong attention for the pros. Cape League fans are also usually Boston Red Sox fans. The Red Sox grow young fans at these games, where it is often possible to win tickets to Boston Red Sox games. In fact, what actually got me hooked on Pawtucket was winning a raffle prize of seats at McCoy Stadium, while at a Cape Cod Baseball League game.

Moving on, we have to the north of Boston the Boston Red Sox affiliated Portland Sea Dogs who play at AA level in the small city of Portland Maine. Thus, we draw the attention to the Boston Sox through offering a place to see Boston related baseball games. Here to the north.

Last and least, to the northwest we have the Boston Red Sox affiliated Lowell Spinners, of Lowell, MA, playing at the Short Season A Level in the New York-Penn League, albeit this is the weakest connection though it should not be overlooked.

So, there it is! The secret has been revealed. It is to create baseball culture within a high population density city, metropolitan and suburbs areas.

It is scarcely believable years’ back that the Red Sox could win a world series, and Boston is winning regularly now from a the prospective of a Curse of the Bambino years’ fan. Not every year, but comparatively the Red Sox have been winning a lot. It was only a matter of time before this fan network was built.

MLB Connecticut Team: Can Someone in All Creation Tell Me Why on Earth Such a Team Does Not Exist?

Capitalism relies on the idea that people will want to have money to spend in order to make more money. For some reason Connecticut has no Major League Baseball team, and yet they are far from the New York Yankees, and the Mets, as well as from the Boston Red Sox. I have no explanation for this, and I am completely baffled. I would have figured that by now some investor would have broken ground for a baseball stadium in Connecticut.

I am completely aware that many teams are experiencing financial difficulties, but I am pretty sure that Connecticut is fairing the weather of the financial turmoil of our nation better than most states.  The exaction of a Connecticut team remains a mystery to me.

Where should they put the team? I would say in rural Connecticut between cities so that there could be a draw from multiple cities from Connecticut, as this state in some ways often seems like an extension of NYC though there are breaks in the population density.  Putting the stadium in rural Connecticut is good for another reason, and that is that the land is most likely to be cheaper there than in the small cities located along I-95.

We could expect to see some draw from places like Providence Rhode Island, which is already a haven for minor league teams such as the Pawtucket Red Sox, and the hockey team the Providence Bruins.  This idea may even draw some fans away from mega-teams like the Boston Red Sox, the NYC Yankees, and Mets although I expect that this may also fortify folks’ interest in sports in these areas.

This Connecticut MLB idea also relies on that not all people are willing to put in any effort to see a minor league game mostly because some people are stuck up and nothing less than the major leagues will due. Fielding a team for Connecticut would certainly fill this niche, and probably do wonders Connecticut’s local economy.

Spring Is A Go – A Poem

Spring is a go

Sing as we plow with our hoe

Scattering seeds of life

For back break harvest strife

Baseball games are ah playin’

My mood is a’ liftin’  I am just sayin’

And, in all that we do

Spring has sprung through and through