Major League for a few days

This item seems like a good opportunity to reach back a few days to a story from Yahoo!

First the item.

The Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox set a Cashman Field attendance record in 1993 by attracting 15,025 fans for an exhibition game.

The Windy City rivals will square off in Las Vegas again next year, playing split-squad exhibitions March 4 and 5, the 51s announced Monday.

But, that's not all.

The Colorado Rockies will play the Mariners at Cashman Field on April 3 and 4.

Now, back to the story from the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas.

Above the heads of 1,000 people crammed into a hallway at the Las Vegas Hilton jutted a pair of gigantic headdresses adorned with feathers the color of a peacock’s plumage. Which, of course, could mean only one thing.

Make way for the mayor.

Oscar Goodman weaved his way through the crowd, accompanied by two showgirls dressed in blue and green sequined bikinis and matching 3-foot-tall coiffures, until he landed safely in an empty room. He was there to deliver the opening remarks for baseball’s winter meetings, only he happened to be at the hotel where a vast majority of the personnel was from the minor leagues.

“So, is there anybody from Major League Baseball here?” he asked.

So, is an MLB team in Sin City's future?

The stigma of gambling, softened across society over time, still sets off alarms in MLB headquarters. The viability of Las Vegas supporting a big-league baseball team when there are so many other entertainment options concerns MLB, even with the city’s population of 2 million and 40 million tourists a year. And there is the trouble of the economy: With redevelopment-agency bonds not selling well and a citywide vote the only other option for building a stadium, Goodman cannot abide by an if-you-build-it-they-will-come maxim.

Still, Goodman said, he has met with owners who have lent their support to his cause, at least before higher-ups started to put the kibosh on such meetings. (“I give no names,” Goodman offered. “I’m not a rat.”) He stopped, not wanting to alienate MLB as he did the NFL. He said Monday of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and former commissioner Paul Tagliabue: “They are the dumbest human beings who ever lived.”

I'll bet you that this doesn't happen...Ever.