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JR

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #14880 on: July 06, 2020, 05:15:38 pm »
I expect this may draw a comment or two

Bob Nightengale  @BNightengale  1h
The Nashville group is hoping to become the first #MLB team with African-American majority ownership. Former 20-game winner and GM Dave Stewart and Hall of Fame manager Tony La Russa are part of the group, with Dave Dombrowski.

Bob Nightengale  @BNightengale  1h
Dave Dombrowski, former GM of the #RedSox, is moving to Nashville and joining Music City Baseball, LLC, in an attempt to bring #MLB to Nashville. The city is hoping to land an expansion franchise or have an existing team relocate to Nashville.

Jon Heyman  @JonHeyman  10m
In the current environment, MLB has no immediate plans to expand to Nashville or anywhere else, per a Major League source.

Honestly I still don't know a lot about who's leading the ownership effort for a Nashville MLB team, and quite frankly I've still barely taken it seriously.  That's actually the first I've heard about it having African-American majority ownership. 

Nashville still just doesn't seem like a true baseball town to me, but you never know.  Plus, it seems like their only hopes of really getting a team would be convincing Oakland or Tampa Bay to move, and that doesn't seem likely at this point either. 

I will say that's about the first time I've seen a national baseball writer do any reporting on it, though.  Up until this point, it's only been the occasional blurb in the Tennessean.
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