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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
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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Right, it's a big market, but not some colossus bestriding the Mid-Atlantic the way Nihilianth seemed to imply. It's fifth in market size, but the dropoff after the first three is really big.