February 5, 200620 yr ? An undisclosed Miami businessman (not Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros) submitted an offer to buy the team, but Loria won't consider selling. :plain
February 5, 200620 yr Gambling isn't really that bad for the sport unless players and managers are betting. But anything that keeps the Marlins out of Vegas is nice.
February 5, 200620 yr ? An undisclosed Miami businessman (not Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros) submitted an offer to buy the team, but Loria won't consider selling. :plain :plain :plain
February 5, 200620 yr The thing that will block ANY major-league team from moving to Las Vegas is the fact that MLB will demand that every casino in Las Vegas doesn't take any bets on MLB games. The casinos have already told them that they won't even consider it. The Expos first choice was Las Vegas.....but Selig blocked it.
February 5, 200620 yr ? An undisclosed Miami businessman (not Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros) submitted an offer to buy the team, but Loria won't consider selling. :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain
February 5, 200620 yr its a catch 22 for MLB. Vegas has conceeded that they would disallow betting on the local team in the casinos...but MLB is unwilling to waver any on their demands. as a result they let a potential goldmine go untapped. as i've said, the first sport to see the positives in Vegas, wins.
February 5, 200620 yr Las Vegas never was going to happen and it never will happen. - People do not travel to Las Vegas to attend a baseball game. - Casino's do not want tourists at a ballpark instead of in front of a slot machine. - In areas like ours most 'professional' jobs are worked during the day and these people can play at night and on weekends. In Vegas, the 'professional' jobs are worked at night and on weekends. The schedules do not jive for many citizens to attend games and they meat and potatoes of Vegas do not want their tourists at games. Sorry Vegas...was never going to happen.
February 5, 200620 yr Ignoring all the hangups from MLB, Vegas wasn't going to happen because it wasn't going to be a free stadium, nor was it going to be on the strip, it was going to be in downtown Vegas, which, as I've said before is like promising someone Orlando and then taking them to Kissimee.
February 6, 200620 yr ? An undisclosed Miami businessman (not Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros) submitted an offer to buy the team, but Loria won't consider selling. :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain This is Loria's team.
February 6, 200620 yr The Casino's have too much money to lose by completely removing baseball from the books.
February 6, 200620 yr The Casino's have too much money to lose by completely removing baseball from the books. Exactly :thumbup
February 6, 200620 yr There is no way that the casino's would EVER agree to taking WORLD SERIES GAME 7 off the books, even if it meant the city losing a potential major league franchise of their own.
February 6, 200620 yr There is no way that the casino's would EVER agree to taking WORLD SERIES GAME 7 off the books, even if it meant the city losing a potential major league franchise of their own. Exactly. Not only that, but assuming MLB is okay with Vegas only taking the Marlins off the books, can you imagine how much money the casinos would lose if the Marlins were to play the Yankees in the World Series again, for example.
February 6, 200620 yr GOOD CALL BY BUD SELIG! not only the fact that they won't remove game 7 off the books, but as a matter of fact, you can't have these major leaguers gambling during the season, partying, and drinking! It would be chaos! Only players that use to do that (Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth) were in the 50's-70's and the fiftys-seventies are long dead!
February 6, 200620 yr • An undisclosed Miami businessman (not Venezuelan media mogul Gustavo Cisneros) submitted an offer to buy the team, but Loria won't consider selling. :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain :plain
February 6, 200620 yr GOOD CALL BY BUD SELIG! not only the fact that they won't remove game 7 off the books, but as a matter of fact, you can't have these major leaguers gambling during the season, partying, and drinking! It would be chaos! Only players that use to do that (Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth) were in the 50's-70's and the fiftys-seventies are long dead! What do you think players do when they're in town? I'm sure they never go to South Beach to party and drink :thumbup .
February 6, 200620 yr GOOD CALL BY BUD SELIG! not only the fact that they won't remove game 7 off the books, but as a matter of fact, you can't have these major leaguers gambling during the season, partying, and drinking! It would be chaos! Only players that use to do that (Mickey Mantle, and Babe Ruth) were in the 50's-70's and the fiftys-seventies are long dead! bey... whateva dream world you're in.. i want IN
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