The owner of the Chicago Capones would have to cough up an expansion fee AND a territorial rights fee to the Cubs.
Speaking of which, the Cubs have veto power over any new team that would want to come into Chicago. Will they approve the Capones coming in and giving them competition?
Also, MLB has been restructured to the point where the AL and NL no longer exist in their old form. There would be no need for a second team in Chicago to play in a park that can’t draw, is considered one of the worst in the majors AND is one that many Sox fans bitched, moaned, whined and complained about-everything from the height of the upper deck to the fact that it isn’t “retro” or yearning for old Comiskey Park or a better ballpark-until it was announced that the Sox wanted a new home. Now, suddenly, nothing is wrong with the park and any old team will be happy to take over it. Or, they can build their own park that every fan wants them to pay for, being against a billionaire getting government money, some for the first time in their lives probably, which would add to all the money they’d have to pay before they even play a single game.
The idea of an expansion team is a fantasy, and the amount of Sox fans who want this to happen astounds me. It also happened in 1988, when a group of nuts fought to save the park at the expense of the team-again, because they hated the owners-because they were under the delusion that the AL would immediately put an expansion team in old Comiskey; the same governing body that told them they needed a new park or needed to move.