Baseball has no place in Las Vegas

Baseball may very well have used up every good locale not within the jurisdiction of an existing franchise.

Updated: April 29, 2004, 11:16 AM ET
By Jim Baker | MLB Insider
Once again, Las Vegas is popping up in the news as a possible destination for relocating a major league franchise. This is either the case of one of two things:

  • Wishful thinking
  • Leverage talk

    If it's leverage talk, fine. We've seen owners throw city names around before in order to intimidate the good burghers of their current locale into gift wrapping them a stadium. I would say to those good burghers not to fall for it in the case of Las Vegas for the simple reason that the place simply doesn't fit a major league profile. Here's why:


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