Thus far, with the Mets winning every game of the National League Division Series against the Cubs, New Yorkers are standing tall on their baseball pride, even if it's a little bruised by the no-show Yankees this season.

But imagine if the Los Angeles Dodgers were still the Brooklyn Dodgers? 

Imagine some alternate timeline, you know, where zeppelins still carted people around the world, where the Cold War never happened, where the Dodgers stayed in Brooklyn; what would it even be like? 

Well, regarding baseball for one, we might not have the Mets, which for lots of people wouldn't be that big of a change. The Mets have a ton of fans, but not as many as the Yankees, and lots of New Yorkers only root for the Mets when it's convenient-- like nowadays. 

But the Dodgers, they were absolutely adored in New York. Imagine the type of love Notorious B.I.G. gets, plus the type of love the Yankees get, and maybe you'll have an idea of what being a Brooklyn Dodgers fan was like.

But one main problem with the Dodgers in Brooklyn was their stadium, Ebbets Field. It was too small and hard to get to, which made it look like nobody actually ever went to Dodgers games.

So a back in the mid 1950s, about two years before the Dodgers moved to L.A., there was a proposal to build a new domed stadium in Brooklyn-- except it never went anywhere. 

But the plans were absolutely insane. Check it... 

via Modern Mechanix

The domed stadium was designed by famed architect Buckminster Fuller in 1955 at the behest of Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley. It would have featured a giant geodesic dome the likes of which the world hadn't yet seen.

In a 1956 edition of Mechanix Illustrated, Frank Tinsley called the would be dome an "all weather, year-round sports palace capable of pulling in big money as a show place for every kind of sporting event and exposition."

Sadly, the dome never came to life. Rather, O'Malley opted to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles, where he was afforded the opportunity to purchase land at a "not-in-the-middle-of-Brooklyn" rate, own the stadium itself, and control all its revenue streams.

Clearly Los Angeles was more desperate for development than Brooklyn in the middle 1950s, and now what have we got? The Mets (which, right about now, isn't the worst thing in the world, we know)... 

But they ain't no Dodgers, that's for sure.  

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[via Modern Mechanix]