There is a reality here and lets talk about it.  The baseball business and many of its practices are around a half century behind.the curve.   Things change, market needs change.  This isnt 1950, can Pittsburgh support a major league baseball team, Im not sure.    Im not picking on the steel city, but lets look at the facts, in the 1970s they won two World Series and four other division titles not a bad run over 10 years.  Check out their attendance sometime for the same decade.  Most years they finished in the bottom half of the league, in 1978 they finished 11th out of 12 teams.