This is so short-sighted on the part of MLB. I agree with the Rays that the “sister city” idea—a defiantly metamodern one—is likely to be the future of professional sports. But we may be a few decades off from that, and no one really expects MLB to be a trailblazer in *anything*.
https://twitter.com/Sportsnet/status/1484217118077898758
IOW the internet has changed our notion of space/time irretrievably. In a way we never did before, we understand that two seemingly contradictory concepts can occupy the same space. I think it’ll ultimately be seen as a “throwback” to view sports teams as tied to *only* one city.
Consider: if a pro sports team played just *one game* in your city of 100,000 each year—but *without fail*—don't you think your city would start to think of that team as being “yours” as well as others’? Suddenly fandom is disseminated/diffused in a way that elevates *everybody*.
In the case of the Rays, you have a whole country—Canada—that’s being deprived of baseball with the exclusion of my favorite team, the Blue Jays. The idea of giving a few games to a city that loves baseball and lost its MLB team was innovative, humane, and could’ve easily worked.
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