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After over 50 years of no major league sports now Brooklyn gets a hockey team to go with the NBA. I know its still not a substitute but still
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I've seen a lot of comparisons in the local media, saying that Brooklyn now has another team "at the major league level". I guess that's true. However, I've never heard of the NBA being referred to as major league anything.
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^^ I guess that Bramhall from the Daily News (Sep 12, 2012) never realized that the home team goes on the bottom of the MLB scoreboard, not on the top (or left-to-right in the NBA). ^^
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I would, however, disagree with the sports/entertainment journalists who say that Brooklyn once again has a PROFESSIONAL sports team. Since Minor League Baseball is, in fact, at the pro level (as in being paid), then they were technically incorrect.
I've been past the Barclays Center at Atlantic Ave a few times, and it is a huge place. However, I don't see anything which reminds me of Ebbets Field, especially the lack of trolley cars.
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Islanders are also going to Brooklyn. 2 Major league teams now.Comment
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You can take both those teams, I could care less. There's only one team people would really care about going to Brooklyn. Brooklyn is mostly Knicks fans, and is definitely Rangers fans. Once the novelty wears off the attendance will dwindle.unknown brooklyn cabbie " how are the brooks doin"
unknown fan "good they got three men on base"
unknown brooklyn cabbie "which one?"Comment
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Good. Maybe we can get another team back up here.Originally posted by theAmazingMet View Post"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it."
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There had been talk a few years ago that a pro cricket oval (one also suitable for pro soccer) would be built at Floyd Bennett Field. That part of Brooklyn has a very large West Indian population and they would have filled up the stadium for T20 pro cricket. And, of course, there are plenty of soccer fans in the entire borough so attendance would always be good.Comment
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Hockey? HOCKEY? In a Baseball Fever thread? Blasphemy. If an NHL team was playing in the parking lot across the street I wouldn't go over to see it.Comment
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