Other articles mention the Marlins as the host team, with the Mets as most likely rivals in some game(s).
The most fun part is running articles through translators:
The director of the Department of Recreation and Sports of San Juan, Maria Elena Mari Batiste, confirmed today to EFE that the stage Hiram Bithorn of the Puerto Rican capital will celebrate games of Great Leagues in the 2010.
Batiste said that executives of Major League Baseball (MLB), industralists and officials of the municipality of San Juan, have met to make specific a project so that not only they are carried out divided of Great Leagues the next year, but to extend it until the 2012. ” We have something concrete and already we will have games next year. My goal is not for the 2010 nothing else, but in the long term ” , it emphasized Batiste. It added that the MLB managers are trying to expand the market of celebration from parties to Latin America, like the Dominican Republic, as well as they have also done in Mexico in previous years. In last March, executives of MLB, industralists and officials of the municipality of San Juan, announced a project so that the Bithorn stage celebrates of 2010 to 2012 parties of Great Leagues and is soothes of two rounds for Classic the World-wide one of Baseball of 2013. The announcement became a day after the capital park, inaugurated in the 1962, celebrated the first round of Group D, where Holland, Panama, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic played. Company MB Sports, presided over by Antonio Muñoz Bermúdez, organized 33 parties like the premises of the nonexistent Expos of Montreal in 2002 and 2003. MB Sports also organized editions of Classic 2006 and 2009 of the World-wide one of Baseball in Puerto Rico.
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If a post-Castro Cuba is sufficiently stable (something Mexico currently is not), I could envision MLB expanding to Havana and San Juan by 2020 or thereabouts. Neither area is particularly wealthy, but they love baseball -- and unlike Florida, there's no college football to get in the way.
Unfortunately yes.
Oh at least it's the nice kind of turf!
All turf is, isn't it?
At least until my patent for "Belligerent ####### Turf" comes through.
I have to wonder if the European Court would go bosman on the NHL draft if it was challenged by an European player.
I think I read somewhere that it could work but it'd have to be a gradual process. Like at first expand it to the Caribbean and Mexico, then Europe, Australia and the other smaller Baseball talent markets/Defector hideouts, and then finally the Asian area (as the Japanese would never stand for it without some sort of fight, possibly even some sort of expansion promise).
If Puerto Rico is any indication baseball of the future would then end up looking a lot like baseball of the 1920s.
They only recently became subject to it, and it's supposedly led to a decline in young talent. Without the immediate signing bonuses, many kids are focusing on other sports.
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