Minor League "Single A" Baseball: To Vancouver, WA?

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    Read up.
    http://minorleaguesource.com/blog/2011/05/14/yakima-bears-moving-to-vancouver-wa/
    Wikipedia has similar info.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_Bears
     
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    ooh boy, AAA baseball back in Portland within 10 years. Yay.
     
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    I'd rather have an A or AA team. The AA teams are usually where the top prospects are.

    Maybe the parking and ticket sales can be used to build the I-5 bridge from hell.
     
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    I live in Vancouver and will not be happy if tax $$ goes towards building a stadium that will draw 1000 fans a game.
     
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    Portland should be embarrassed at their professional sports outlook. A city that size should have at least 2. Jobs and tax dollars aside, it adds entertainment to a city and helps increase tourism
     
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    You don't count the Timbers?
     
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    hate all you want... but they have 2 professional sports teams.. and have for some time *ducks and runs*
     
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    Tlong wins :lol:
     
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    No, I don't. I realize there are many people that think soccer is a major sport, but I am not one of them. I also don't include Major league Lacross or the WNBA. I realize soccer is becomming more popular, so for the sake of argument, if you want to include it then Portland should have 3
     
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    I've enjoyed watching the Timbers on TV, even last night when they again blew a lead and lost 2 points in the process. That said, MLS is certainly not a major sport in the US. It barely draws in terms of a TV audience, the best players in the world don't play in the MLS (unlike MLB/NHL/NBA/NFL), and although it has a rabid fanbase, nobody cares about the sport outside of cities with teams. The frickin' All-Star game is the best of the MLS players against Manchester United, for chrissakes.
     
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    Propstra Stadium can already hold 1,000 peeps.
     
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    moreso than it being a major sport. I'm a huge Soccer and Timbers fan, and I dont think its a major sport here yet... but you said Portland should have 2 professional sports teams. Timbers have been professional. Whether or not its a major sport is different.
     
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