Marlins owner Lowry negotiating with Las Vegas mayor Goodman.....

[bubba-sc]

...Oscar Goodman has feverishly been pursuing a major league sports team for Las Vegas. He met with Marlins owner for 90 minutes last night to talk about building a state of the art aquarium for the Sin City Fish

 

[Kiss1]

Great attraction for the out of town visitors and the low lifes that call this place home.

 

[soccerbob]

bubba- The Marlin's ownership aren't "negotiating" with Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman. They're using him as a pawn to try to fleece the taxpayers of Miami into building them a new ballpark. It's a very smart move on their part. You tell the taxpayers you need a new ballpark to "compete" and if you don't get it, well you may have to look at moving the team. Then you pick a high profile city that doens't have a pro sports team or a city that may have lost one in the past few years and you go visit them. Obviously Las Vegas fits the former, not the latter.

The mayor is being played. You have to remember Oscar Goodman never met a camera he didn't like. He loves being in the news or on the news. Whenever any team owners or executives are in the same time zone as Las Vegas, it makes the radio and TV here. It's also usually front page news in the Las Vegas Casino Journal. Oops, I mean the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The Marlins aren't coming here. They have no intention of coming here. But for Oscar, it's another few moments in the news.

 

[WildBill]

The RJ isnt the casino journal any more Bob. Rod Smith runs the gaming content and admits he never gambles. If you read the paper notice how it seems Tom Grey, the biggest anti-gaming nut out there, seems to be on Rod's speed dial.

If you would have posted the whole story the part about being a pawn in negotiations would have been seen. I agree the Marlins probably stay in Miami, but I do truly believe the Mayor. The next MLB team to move is highly likely to end up in LV. Only question is when since teams almost never move in baseball. If I had to guess I think you will see the Las Vegas A's by the year 2010. While MLB of course wants publicly funded stadiums Vegas is the lone place that can build a stadium with little or no public money. That will bring a team.

 

[DavidMatthews]

There would be some HOT days for watching a baseball game, but somehow they make it work in Phoenix though.

 

[GreenDoberman]

soccerbob, is correct again in his post. As about the #1 Marlin fan in Vegas, I would be THRILLED to see them come here. But right now it is still a pie-in-the-sky scenario.

 

[winkyduck]

like others - the marlins aren't going anywhere

this is no different than the pats using hartford and more teams than i could keep track of who used Tampa as a threat to get their new stadium before the Devil Dogs came into existence.