Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With baseball, expansion is pretty much the same thing, without the Patriot missiles. A well-planned expansion, like the 1969 addition of the Kansas City Royals, can go well. But if you don't pick the right market and form a team that wins games within five or six years...
Expansion has given us some teams that added to to the rich history of baseball because they were so unbelievably bad. In 1962, an expansion franchise called the New York Mets joined the National League and lost 120 games--the baseball equivalent of getting a "C" in a Core course...
Plus, expansion hasn't been the cure-all that civic officials have hoped for. Toronto and Montreal both got teams through expansion, and Canada stands divided between its English and French speaking parks (though this can't be blamed entirely on any Blue Jay Expo rivalry, because they play in...
And consider the following list of ballclubs with expansion origins that have done little for civic pride: Seattle Mariners. Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers, California Angels. Only one of these teams--San Diego--has been to a World Series, and it got clobbered. Plus, the Denver-based Rockies...
With 50 more major league jobs a year, there are fewer qualified baseball players. But the worst thing about expansion is that it lowers the quality of play fans will see, and that serves the purposes of no one. At least, almost no one.