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.