Well, trying to think about this more like a baseball fan and spectator in these towns, I wondered how the news was being taken. As an actual casual fan of the Brooklyn Cyclones, who so far don't have a team, I'm not too happy. Even if they eventually get a team, I'm thinking it's going to be weak tea - a couple notches below the previous level of play.
In Williamsport, PA, other than the LLWS, the low A Williamsport Crosscutters are the only game in town, and the club at least is wearing a game face.
https://www.sungazette.com/new...ble-in-mlb-pipeline/
But what if you live in Trenton NJ and root for the Yankee's AA affiliate there?
Answer: You are not happy. At all.
"The good news: The Trenton Thunder will be playing baseball this summer
The bad news: Well, if being a minor league team affiliated with a Major League Baseball team is like sitting at the main table, and being an independent minor league team is sitting at the kids table along with your weird cousin, what the Thunder got is more like not even being invited until the last moment because your mom was like, “I really think you should invite the Trenton Thunder,” and you’re like, “Fine, mom,” but in an angry way, and then when they get there the only available seat is more or less in the coat closet and you’re like, “sit here.”
and
What is the MLB Draft League? Glad you asked. It’s a 68-game season — the Thunder, when they were a AA team of the hated New York Yankees, played 142 — that will mostly feature nobodies going nowhere. It is affiliated with MLB, so that’s nice, but whatever.
and
Oh my god do I hate the Yankees. Seriously. Right now my hatred list looks like this:
1) COVID-19
2) The Yankees
3) I have nothing else to hate. That’s it.