LAS VEGAS HARDBALL

When it has to do with baseball in Las Vegas, it’s the bottom of the ninth, two outs.  That’s because sadly adult amateur baseball has been reduced to bush league status.  After all, Vegas has been a city known for its attitude towards winning and games of skill.  Baseball is an American pastime that is based around this concept. 

How inane are things? Consider this: the situation with the fields in Vegas could be among the worst nationally because the fields are limited to playing once a week.  This does not inspire any consistency or full dedication to play at a high level.  In fact, the ability to really establish Las Vegas as a  great town for amateur baseball has been sorely undermined  by greed.

Jason Giambi did give it a try for what appears to be for youth and softball players only, by partnering with the city to build $28 million worth of major league dimensions replica baseball fields that feature silly portable mounds dubbed the ‘field of dreams’ unavailable to the VVB.  A slap in the face or a “snub job’ for the league. 

Something needs to be done or else the potential to develop the proper environment for a baseball league will be lost.  Here is what really needs to be done:  3-5 fields will need to be built with proper lighting for the night games.  The fields also need to be for the exclusive use for the hundreds of players who now play and hundreds more that await a roster spot and proper schedule to play.  They have their hopes resting on a real league development and not on the current once a week bullshit league.  The quality of play would greatly increase without the Sunday only rule.

You have to wonder where Dana White is during all the waiting for a development.   Isn’t he worth something like $200 zillion or is it million?  He and the Station Casinos own all the land so they can solve the problem with that ridiculous kind of clout and help boost it.  $3-5 million is all that would be needed to help get it built.  Baseball would really thrive in an environment such as Las Vegas.

What about the Maloofs, no word from them yet, you would think they would have an interest in bettering baseball in vegas at any level but apparently not.

What about Steve Wynn, Mr. Billionaire?  All he has to do is order a hundred robots COD to build the fields and they should be ready by the end of this summer of 2012.  He hasn’t even built the world’s largest roller coaster in Vegas yet so Wynn’s glory days may be fading.  If this coaster development does take place I will reccomend to Wynn to hire players of the LVHB for employment in construction, and marketing of the roller coaster.

We know something has to change when those pear-shaped softball guys do not have to get up at 6:30 am Sunday morning and not have to play in the heat from hell.  If fields were built then the current VVB (www.eteamz.com/vegasvalleybaseball) will feature those with limited ability who only want to play once a week and do not work at their game.  That is a league more suitable for Mo Molina to run as he has brought nothing to the sport, uses cheap baseballs, and insults the champions with cheap plaques.