Marlins on the move?

As the deadline for the Marlins' new stadium looms, Jayson Stark looks at where the team might end up if financing for the proposed $325m stadium in South Florida can't be found. It's a bit like Where Can We Move The Expos, Part II, with Las Vegas and Washington, DC being mentioned as prime candidates (even though apparently no-one is actually talking about a move).

Without going into the logistics or demographics of any of the possible moves (which throw up very simple but unanswerable questions such as "where the hell would they actually play their games next year?"), I have to say that I'd like to see the Marlins in the Nevada desert - they'd fit right in with the bright lights and the noisy, brash, energetic character of the city. "Vegas hurler Josh Beckett" has a certain Wild West gunslinger ring to it, doesn't it?