Pure Carolyn: Las Vegas Mayor Goodman Steals Headlines From Super Bowl 58 In Vegas Tuesday By Saying A’s Stadium On Strip ‘Does Not Make Sense’
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By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer
Leave it to Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman to steal the headlines from Super Bowl 58 in Vegas.
The ongoing Las Vegas soap opera, Days of our Stadiums, included another goofy episode when Goodman told a reporter that the Athletics should stay in Oakland, the planned A’s stadium site at Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard on the Strip is a bad site and Las Vegas should wait for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
Thank heavens someone at the local newspaper informed the geography-challenged folks of the U.S. that the A’s stadium site is not technically inside the city of Las Vegas’ borders.
But what amused LVSportsBiz.com the most is that Goodman said the Athletics should stay in Oakland, her comments opposing the lockstep unified front of the governor, the Nevada Legislature and Clark County commissioners who sadly showed gullible tendencies and star-struck eyes in dealing with a MLB team that is receiving $380 million in government assistance to build a $1.5 billion stadium on the Strip.
For the record, Goodman told Front Office Sports, “They … want to get closer to the Strip with all the congestion and everything . . . And I thought, ‘This does not make sense.’ ”
Well, Goodman did release a statement after her comments that can be interpreted as backtracking — or at least, clarifying, her words. Take a look:
Well, the A’s saga moves on in March when the team comes to Summerlin’s Las Vegas Ballpark to play two preseason games as part of “Big League Weekend.”
