Fun fact: Jose Rijo was the first major-leaguer younger than RMc.

Interesting caveat.

It's not a caveat - it would be the Yankees/Mets choice of how much it would take for them to waive their rights. And you're crazy if you think the NY teams would willingly waive them cheaply.

Is there any team that would waive their territorial rights cheaply?

Is there any team that would waive their territorial rights cheaply?

Cheaply compared to the Yankees and Mets.

The Rays would laugh in your face if you wanted to move into their territory: "Good luck here, buddy, but it would be easier to simply light your money on fire"

So would you expect Tampa to renounce their territorial rights if a team wanted to move to Orlando?

So would you expect Tampa to renounce their territorial rights if a team wanted to move to Orlando?

If they have rights to Orlando, then no they wouldn't renounce them for free, but their price would be way less than the price to get the Yankees/Mets to renounce their rights. What part of this simple concept do you not understand?

Or are you so immature that you refuse to admit that some effects of the MLB cartel benefit the Yankees disproportionately? Don't worry, admitting that wouldn't mean that you think it makes up for the ways MLB artificially helps other teams, or that you love Loria now.

If they have rights to Orlando, then no they wouldn't renounce them for free, but their price would be way less than the price to get the Yankees/Mets to renounce their rights. What part of this simple concept do you not understand?

Wouldn't Tampa be much more threatened by a team in Orlando than the Yankees would be by a team in Brooklyn (as per 42)? The Rays would be risking their entire franchise - a franchise that only continues to exist because of teams like the Yankees. Do you think this would come cheaply for the prospective Orlando Mousekateers? Assuming the Rays want to stay in business, why wouldn't they demand a kingly ransom for allowing a direct competitor to their struggling market position?

Would the Rays be able to ask for any sum they want for the invasion, or is there some sort of league framework? I honestly don't know. But if it's a willing buyer/willing seller model I can't imagine the Rays accepting any amount, assuming they want to stay viable.

Or are you so immature that you refuse to admit that some effects of the MLB cartel benefit the Yankees disproportionatel

Oh I'm plenty immature, but why won't you admit that some effects of the MLB cartel benefit the Rays disproportionately, and the Marlins disproportinately, and so on, with the Yankees forced to foot the bill on multiple levels? Sure being the Yankees carries enormous benefits, because the Yankees are the most beloved and successful team in all of sports, but these territorial rights are one of the only things keeping some teams afloat, and Yankee dollars are one of the only other things, so I just don't see why the Yankees should be genuflecting before the redistributionist oligarchs for allowing themselves to be covered by the same protections every other team enjoys.

but why won't you admit that some effects of the MLB cartel benefit the Rays disproportionately, and the Marlins disproportinately

I do, never didn't.

Sure being the Yankees carries enormous benefits, because the Yankees are the most beloved and successful team in all of sports

Let's switch to the Mets: how are they such a valuable franchise, and how have they made so much money in the past, when they AREN'T one of the most beloved and successful team in all of sports? Just maybe they have benefited from having the artificial protection to split the region that has concentration of lots of people and lots of money and lots of love for baseball with one other team.

Do you think this would come cheaply for the prospective Orlando Mousekateers?

It would come much cheaper than it would for the prospective Hoboken Honkballers.

Assuming the Rays want to stay in business, why wouldn't they demand a kingly ransom for allowing a direct competitor to their struggling market position?

They could demand all they want until the cows come home, but no one would pay much at all because it would be a financially disastrous venture. Being the 3rd team in NY would have a better chance at making money, and the Steinbrenners and Wilpons know this and thus would have leverage to extract more money.

allowing themselves to be covered by the same protections every other team enjoys.

If you think it's the same protection than you must also think an acre of land in Camden, NJ, is as valuable as an acre of land next to Central Park. I can understand a child thinking like this (an acre is an acre is an acre -> a territory is a territory is a territory), but I'm surprised an adult wouldn't understand the concept, especially one who pretends to have such understanding of baseball economics as part of his ceaseless and annoying schtick.