Maybe Royals fans should hold off on demanding more revenue sharing or a salary cap.
The Kansas City metro area is the fastest growing MSA in the AL Central, just edging out Minneapolis-St. Paul!
Listed below are the growth rates for each divisional MSA from 2000 to 2007:
| Pop. Change 00-07 | MSA Size | National Rank | |
| Kansas City | +8.11% | 1.98M | 29th |
| Minn-St.Paul | +8.06% | 3.2M | 16th |
| Chicago | +4.68% | 9.5M | 3rd |
| Detroit | +0.34% | 4.46M | 11th |
| Cleveland | -2.40% | 2.09M | 25th |
At this rate, in another fifteen years, Kansas City will be at 2.3 million, while Cleveland will be at 1.99 million. As the man once said, we can build on this!
I had no idea that the Detroit metro was that large, or the Twin Cities for that matter. Considering how bad it looks like 2008 was, and 2009 plans to be, I wonder what the updated numbers will look like. Then again, with the malaise so widespread, maybe there are no longer many places for rust belters to go...
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