Snap Out of It! Brooklyn Deserves Its Own Major League Baseball Franchise

Rays' Evan Longoria already lookin' Brooklyn to us!

Josh Alper writes today at NBC New York that the Tampa Bay Rays may be looking for a new home in the Northeast.  Right now, the team is having problems drawing flies on regular basis much less actual human fans.  That's despite the fact that the team ain't so bad according to pundit Peter Gammons.

Alper cites Gammons assertion that some MLB suits are contemplating New Jersey or Southern Connecticut as possible new stomping grounds for the Rays.  

Brooklyn may be too much of a hot spot Alper believes due to the Atlantic Yards quagmire.  However, we say in the words of Cher in Moonstruck -- SNAP OUT OF IT!

Sure the Mets will complain and try to block.  Naturally the Yankees will try to block it as well.  But ladies and gentlemen don't tell us that you don't get a little misty when the possibility of BROOKLYN facing the Yankees or Mets in the World Series.

The team? The time? We say the Rays move to Brooklyn, change their name to something far less lame and start kicking ass and taking names.  Are you with us?

Here's some 1955 World Series highlights to get your BROOKLYN blood pumpin':