Re: Linguistics sidebar (WAS: Re: The future capital city of Earth)

In article <nhYfg.121805$F_3.48028@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"David Tate" <dtate@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1149258504.823070.277850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[1] OK, everyone who knew that Columbus has a bigger metro
population[2] than either Cleveland or Cincinnati, raise your hand...

You'd expect to find professional sports franchises in large metro areas,
but Cleveland has three of the four top sports, Cincinnati two, and Columbus
only one.


Further re: Columbus, that one sport arrived only relatively recently,
in the sport which neither Cincinnati nor Cleveland have and which is
the clear fourth of the top four sports.

With a few sensible exceptions, sports leagues are understandably
reluctant to place new franchises close to existing ones, and
Cincinnati and Cleveland had their franchises long before Columbus
grew to the size where you'd investigate franchise opportunities.

However, even if you started over from scratch to redistribute
league franchises today, I still don't think Columbus would get
a franchise in the top three sports. It has the 3rd largest metro
population in Ohio[1] and is less than 200 miles (driving) from
five larger metro areas: Cincinnati (100mi), Cleveland (140mi),
Detroit (190mi), Indianapolis (180mi), and Pittsburgh (190mi).

Tony
[1] I think David accidentally reported the city populations in
the long table of his post.
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