This actually the name of a column written by a guy named Shaun Payne. I came across it while lookingg for relocation articles. He mentions (last November) his plan to relocate a couple teams, creating the New Washington Senators and the Portland Pioneers.

(Wonder where he got the name "Pioneers" from....)

Anyway, you could send him a comment on his article, such as, "Portland needs to have a NATIONAL LEAGUE team. The PNW already has an AL team." Or something like that. ¿

Portland in the National League.

HA!

Man... you are never going to give in on the NL bit are you?

Tell you what. One of the discussion points at the SABR meeting while I was walking across the lot to leave was the change in style of play between leagues. Now the NL is the "basher" homerun/longball league, and the AL behond the Mariners is the hit and run, runners in motion league.

Anymore the only difference is the DH.

A man has to have goals- for a day, for a lifetime- that was mine, to have people say, "There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived."
- Ted Williams

Just got through with Mr. Payne's article which openly advocates a relocation of the Devil Rays to Portland. While I don't think the Rays will be moving, I did reply to his column, thanking him for being one of those who has come to recognize the legitimacy of our "MLB2PDX" campaign!

The one idea he had that I would seriously take issue with, however, is the idea of moving the Marlins to Orlando (which he believes should have been their first location anyway). First of all, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale metro are is 250% larger than Orlando (4,000,000 to 1,500,000). Second, there is no better ballpark in Orlando that there is in Miami; in fact, there is NO place in Orlando for an MLB team to play, while Miami at least has Pro Player Stadium that can seat an adequate major league crowd. Third, if the city and state won't appropriate funds for a stadium for the Marlins, what makes anyone think Orlando will? It's still in the same state, isn't it?