Two MLB teams from same league that are closest geographically?
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-New York (NL) to Philly is 81 miles.\n\n-Chicago (NL) to Milwaukee, 83.0 miles per Ask.com\n\nCleveland to Detroit (AL) is 90 miles according to the same website.\n\nAfter that, also in the NL, LA to San Diego=112 miles...and in the NL as well, it's about 124 from Philly to Washington, DC.
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Try doing a search on Yahoo or Google.\n\nYou could also try www.mlb.com and then look for major league baseball teams farm teams.\n\nYou can pretty well find any baseball team this way.
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The Cardinals. The Yanks are defintely not the best now since they lost both Matsui and Sheffield.
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AL is the better league because it is the most competitive.  All 3 divisions in the AL will be competitive while you look in the NL where the West is up for grabs and probably St.Louis and NY Mets will win their divisions.  In the AL there is more than a couple of teams in each division who can beat you and probably the divisions won't be decided until the final weeks of the season
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Unfortunately both Florida teams have to go, maybe, just maybe they could be merged into one team and put in Orlando if MLB is so dead set on having a team in that state.\n\nI don't thing the fact that there are more teams in one league than another has anything to do with anything.  The talent pool is the talent pool.\n\nMore expansion?  PLEASE NO!  MLB has proven incapable of picking cities for new teams.\n\nMarlins would be my first choice of a team to be contracted.
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No they have the St. Louis Cardinals in the division even without pujols. Derrek Lee and Mark Prior are great additions but the Cubs won't have a chance this year.
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British Columbia attempted to attract a Major League team to the area in the 1980s, but their campaign was unsuccessful at the time. \n\nExpansion to B.C. is seen as a longshot for two reasons - one, because of the relative proximity of nearby Seattle (just 138 miles away), and perhaps more importantly, two, because the metropolitan area of Vancouver only has about 2 million residents, which isn't considered large enough, by Major League Baseball standards, to support a home team.\n\n(Two million residents sounds like an awful lot of people, but consider that the New York Yankees home attendance in 2005 was 4,090,696 - equivalent to the entire population of the metropolitan area of Vancouver attending 2 baseball games each and every year.)\n\nBy the way, in response to another respondent's suggestion - baseball is unlikely to seriously consider expansion to Japan any time soon - and anyone who has ever travelled on a flight between the United States and Japan can surely understand why. (And for those who haven't - non-stop travel times from New York City are 14 hours and 24 minutes to Osaka and 13 hours and 48 minutes to Tokyo.)
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I live in Montana, where there are no pro teams. They are not so big here, they like either the Twins or the Mariners here. They probably like the Astros (or Rangers) in states near TX that don't have their own teams, like OK, NM or LA. Sorry, sad, but true.
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There's already been a lot of speculation about a new franchise starting up, or moving to Las Vegas.  While I live in NJ, Las Vegas is the perfect spot for a major league team.  There is a booming population there and they would have plenty of filled seats from hotels buying packages of seats and giving them to their high rollers.  From a business standpoint, it is the best possible option.
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I believe there has been a lot of talk on that subject, most recently San Juan, Puerto Rico was a serious contender for the Expos franchise but MLB decided on DC.I believe Mexico will be a great market and Puerto Rico filled the ball parks for every game the Expos played there 2 years ago. I would love to see that we Latinos are well represented in MLB and in my opinion Mexico and Puerto Rico would be front runners in that quest.Great Question !!!!!!
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Brooklyn Dodgers - Now: Los Angeles Dodgers\n\nlater;\nNew York Giants - Now: San Fransisco Giants
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The NL was the first league, playing in the late 1800s. A bunch of teams formed the AL in 1900-1901 as a rival league. As baseball expanded, they added teams where it made the most sense. For instance, the Seattle Mariners are in the AL because the old Seattle Pilots were in the AL. In other cases, an area (like L.A.) would already have an NL team, so they added an AL team (the Angels) because they didn't want two teams in the same league so close together. That's why the two Florida teams are in different leagues, for instance.
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As already mentioned, the Colorado Rockies are the closest major league team - though at about 500 miles, it's hardly close.  They do have a minor league team, the Salt Lake Bees, that is the AAA-level affiliate of the Angels.
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Red Sox are a good bet, but don't rule out the White Sox either.  They could move Scott Podsednik to center field and put Lee back in left field, plus they have been known to open their wallets when they see a need.  Can you inmagine a middle lineup of Thome, Konerko, Dye and Lee?
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no, the reason why they created the interleague game was to establish the cross town rivalries, not just in the paper, but to be played together for the fans to be apart.  \nSome examples\n\nNY - Mets vs Yankees\nCA - Angels vs Dodgers\n     San Fran vs Oakland\nTX - Astros vs Rangers\nMD - Orioles vs Nationals\nMO - St Louis vs Kansas City\nIL - Whitesox vs Cubs\n\njust a few.
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Baseball - New York Yankees\n\nFootball - Dallas Cowboys
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I'm a Mets fan, and being from NY all I hear is that the odds makers pick the Yankees EVERY year. Nothing new there. In the AL the Chisox could do it again. In the NL, who knows? My Mets are bound to improve (they can only go up!), so let's just watch and see. Play Ball!!