It appears the Oakland Athletics bought land in Las Vegas:

Major League Baseball’s (MLB) Oakland Athletics have signed a binding purchase agreement for land near the Las Vegas Strip, where the team plans to construct a Major League ballpark, according to reports from the Las Vegas Review-Journal and The Athletic, citing Athletics team president Dave Kaval.

“For a while, we were on parallel paths (with Oakland), but we have turned our attention to Las Vegas to get a deal here for the A’s and find a long-term home,” Kaval told the Review-Journal on Wednesday. “Oakland has been a great home for us for over 50 years, but we really need this 20-year saga completed and we feel there’s a path here in Southern Nevada to do that.”

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It’s not surprising. The current stadium is a mess with sewer problems and animals living in broadcast booths. This move would make the Athletics the most peripatetic team of all time, as they would land in their fourth city.

Of course, this could all be a ploy to get what they want from Oakland. The New England Patriots were all set to move to Hartford, CT, until they got what they wanted from Foxborough, MA. Stay tuned.