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Originally Posted by mlyons
I think you also have a really weird idea of how big Philadelphia is. Our population is just under a million and a half. That's smaller than Phoenix, and not much bigger than San Antonio, Dallas, or San Diego. It's nowhere near the size of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, or even Houston.
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City population is not what's important; it's metropolitan area population that matters. And on that score, in 2008 Philadelphia had the fifth largest MSA population behind New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas. The Philadelphia metropolitan division population alone was larger than the MSA population of Seattle, Minneapolis-St. Paul, San Diego, St. Louis, and eight other MSAs with MLB teams.
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