I saw this at the Baseball Prospectus blog on Friday (http://www.baseballprospectus.com/unfiltered/?p=1177):

“The resistance was led by commissioner Marc Sarnoff, who said he would only vote for the deal if the Marlins: 1) agreed to pay cost overruns on stadium parking garages, 2) gave the city a cut of naming-rights revenue, which is currently slated to go only to the Marlins, and 3) promised to use any proceeds from the sale of the team to pay back the public’s costs before pocketing any profits. After a nearly one-hour recess, Marlins president David Samson said he’d work on capping garage costs, but wouldn’t budge on naming rights or sale proceeds. Sarnoff and commissioner Tomas Regalado said they’d only approve the deal with Sarnoff’s amendments, at which point meeting chair Joe Sanchez - a backer of the Marlins proposal - declared, “This deal is dead.””

“Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be off fielding hate mail from every mother on the planet for the remainder of the day.”

Does this mean that mothers will be venturing into their own basements?

Richard - Forbes recently listed Vegas as a likely destination for a pro sports franchsie citing pop growth as the biggest factor.

“...Vegas, which has already grown its population 31% to 1.8 million since 2000, is expected to keep rolling toward 3.3 million by 2030.”

Having said that, they need a stadium (cripes their AAA stadium ain’t even up to snuff) and I don’t think there is much corporate dough in Vegas.

Having said that, it seems as viable as any other market without MLB.

The absent City of Miami Commissioner, Michelle Spence-Jones, is supposedly for the deal. So Sarnoff’s no vote may not matter. If she’s for it, it passes 3-2 even without Commissioner Sarnoff, the surprise no vote last time.

Pure speculation on my part now - the reason there was such obvious disappointment last Friday may be that the Marlins thought they had the votes in the County lined up for later that day - the County vote was considered a tougher hurdle. The delay runs the risk of someone else flipping.

Otherwise, once they did not have the votes[at 2-2], they could have just adjourned or postponed until the missing commissioner was scheduled to return. Even in the current agreement, the deadline is June 30th - all parties have the right to back out of the deal until then. So there is no real time deadline working against the deal at this time.

Does San Antonio have a stadium to house the a MLB team, even a temporary one?