Where should the next MLB expansion teams be placed?

[traininthedistance]

Write-in: Hampton Roads.  The Norfolk/Newport News/VA Beach area is the largest metro without a single major sports team, and obviously neither the Braves nor the Nationals have much of a hold on southern Virginia.  Presumably they would be able to capture the Richmond market as well, and hopefully some of North Carolina as well.

Charlotte or Raleigh-Durham would also be decent choices; really the thing that stuck out for me from that map is how the VA/NC area needs a team more than anywhere else.

[traininthedistance]

In general, I'm strongly against teams moving, because it's just not right to rip out the hearts of the fans like that. I think that any team that just insists on moving should have to do like the Cleveland Browns and leave the name and history behind. Why should banners won in Seattle be hanging in Oklahoma City, or titles won in Minneapolis or Houston be celebrated in Dallas and Nashville? The new fans didn't care about those old days. It was really stupid that the Titans got to wear Oilers throwback jerseys on the AFL 50th anniversary year, instead of the Texans, whose fans actually cared about the Oilers...

Having said all that, I would be OK with one possible move:  Move the A's to Sacramento. It's close enough that they could keep their Northern California fanbase. The Giants are more popular in every single ZIP Code, but if the A's became "Sacramento's team" instead of "the Bay Area's second team," they'd probably take over in Sacramento and have a more established fanbase. And they'd be close enough for the random Oakland loyalists to still keep up.

How about moving the Raiders back to Los Angeles?  Would you be okay with that move?

[traininthedistance]

I feel like expansion to 32 is an obvious thing to do- the NFL can support that many teams just fine and it evens things out to stop the constant interleague games for people who care about that.

As I mentioned above, the first choice should definitely be in VA/NC- Tidewater, Raleigh, or Charlotte, with preference for the first two since the Braves do appear to have a bit of a fanbase in/around Charlotte.  Tidewater needs a team the most, and maybe the NBA would be a slightly better choice given their size, but baseball would do much better than the NFL there- it is still R******s country.

As for the second one, I'm more agnostic but the two locales that immediately come to mind are Portland and San Juan.

As for other metros that need a sports team of some sort, San Antonio is the next obvious choice- but the team San Antonio really wants is a relocated Jacksonville Jaguars.