A look at expansion

Over a year ago, it was announced that Orlando and Santa Ana would be getting a baseball team.  Almost a season into the young franchises, both teams are on the outside looking in and have a long hill to climb in order to contend.

They also have a long hill to climb in order to attract fans.

"We have a baseball team, who knew?" said one Santa Ana resident.  

"There are about a thousand other things in Orlando that I would do before I see a baseball game.  Hell, I would rather see the Orlando Magic before I go watch the clusterfuck that the MLB is trying to sell us."  said one angry Orlando resident.

"It's disheartening," said James Loney (Orlando Century 1st baseman).  "I had my doubts when I first heard about the expansion and so far they have been proven correct."

Both teams are averaging less than 25,000 fans per game.  

"We've been trying to do some promotions to attract fans," said Santa Ana's promotion Manager.  "But it's hard to get fans to switch to your team when we have 5 mlb teams within a close range competing with us.  It makes it very difficult."