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Baseball: 7 potential MLB expansion cities and team ideas

By Ryan Morik

VERO BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 1981: Gary Carter #8 of the Montreal Expos during a spring training game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images)
VERO BEACH, FL - FEBRUARY 1981: Gary Carter #8 of the Montreal Expos during a spring training game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodgertown in Vero Beach, Florida. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty Images) /
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 07: The super pink moon, the biggest supermoon of the year, rises over (L-R) the Excalibur Hotel & Casino, Luxor Hotel and Casino, Delano Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and the under construction Allegiant Stadium on April 7, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pink moon got its name because the April full moon occurs at the same time as the pink wildflower Phlox subulata blooms in North America. A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with its perigee, which is its closest approach to the Earth. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 07: The super pink moon, the biggest supermoon of the year, rises over (L-R) the Excalibur Hotel & Casino, Luxor Hotel and Casino, Delano Las Vegas at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino and the under construction Allegiant Stadium on April 7, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The pink moon got its name because the April full moon occurs at the same time as the pink wildflower Phlox subulata blooms in North America. A supermoon occurs when a full moon coincides with its perigee, which is its closest approach to the Earth. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) /

Las Vegas

Nickname: Anything about gambling

Closest team, Los Angeles Angels (264 miles)

Finally. Some common sense. The Vegas Golden Knights were born in 2017. They won the Western Conference and played in the Stanley Cup Final in their first year. The Raiders followed suit and will be playing in Vegas this fall. Sports gives Vegas billions of dollars. All four sports leagues will be in Vegas sooner rather than later.

Side note, baseball is so fun to bet on. You can hit an over before an out is made (best feeling ever). Or you can be right on track for an over in the third inning, and then boom, 6-4-3 double play to get out of the inning, and that’s the only threat the team puts up offensively, and the under cashes out.

Hey, maybe the Raiders can share their stadium with a baseball team soon to be named in Vegas for old times’ sake.

And please, just give us a team name regarding gambling. The Vegas Strip. The Vegas Cashouts. The Vegas Roulette. The Vegas Holdem. The Vegas Craps. Okay, that last one went too far. I think the Vegas Degenerates would be cool. Embrace the culture, embrace where you play.

Personally, my vote would be the Strip or Cashouts.

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