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fouroneone
12-10-2004, 04:33 PM
http://florida.marlins.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/fla/news/fla_news.jsp?ymd=20041209&content_id=920071&vkey=news_fla&fext=.jsp


Very interesting

Valuist
12-14-2004, 12:28 AM
I listen to some sports talk out of LV and this would have to be a longshot. Sounds like the Marlins are trying to use LV to bargain with the city of Miami.

OTM Al
12-14-2004, 09:12 AM
There will be a team in Las Vegas at some point. It is becoming too large a city not to have a major league franchise. That said though, Vegas is not ready just yet. This move could become similar to the Tampa ploy of the early 80s to get the White Sox. They got a team eventually, just not the one they thought they were going to.

sq764
12-14-2004, 09:32 AM
Originally posted by OTM Al
There will be a team in Las Vegas at some point. It is becoming too large a city not to have a major league franchise. That said though, Vegas is not ready just yet. This move could become similar to the Tampa ploy of the early 80s to get the White Sox. They got a team eventually, just not the one they thought they were going to.

I heard the mayor of Vegas said "there will be a first pitch thrown in 2008"... Sounds confident

OTM Al
12-14-2004, 09:47 AM
All rhetoric at this point. Tampa was so confident they would get the Sox that they built them a stadium which the Devil Rays unfortunately inhereted after it sat basically empty for 10 years. Vegas will get a team eventually, but my bet is that it will be through expansion or it will be the Oakland As

Jeep
12-14-2004, 02:05 PM
I believe the reason the Marlins or any major sports team will not go to Las Vegas is because (I believe this is true) the casino's cannot take any bets on any Nevada team. If this is true and any major Nevada team got into the Playoffs, World Series, etc they would lose all that revenue from these games. Just my thought on it.
Jeep

Lefty
12-15-2004, 12:14 AM
The casinos will make sure we don't get a team. Want to keep em in the casinos and not at the ballpark.

kingfin66
12-15-2004, 01:59 AM
There is a very good story in this week's Sports Illustrated about this very subject.

bobbytabb
12-16-2004, 12:21 AM
The Marlins aren't going to move. They just want to see if the city of Miami will come up with a better solution than the Orange Bowl site. This site just won't work for the greater population.

Valuist
12-16-2004, 12:44 AM
Pro sports has such a weird relationship with gambling. Deep down, they love the interest that it stirs in its sports; who really cares who wins next weeks Redskins/49ers game? Plenty of gamblers and that's about it. But they always try to distance themselves from it. Oakland played a few regular season games in Vegas a few years back, but I can't see Selig allowing a team to move there. Then again the Expos/Nationals/whatever they will be called may need to find another home.