Athletics’ Owner Still Doesn’t Have Full Funding For Las Vegas BaseballStadium [Video]

Show Las Vegas the money.

It’s Halloween and it is trick or treat time in Las Vegas. The owner of Major League Baseball’s former Oakland Athletics, present Athletics in Sacramento and future Las Vegas Athletics John Fisher was supposed to tell the Las Vegas Stadium Authority how he planned to finance his portion of the stadium bill. Nevada lawmakers have given Fisher about $380 million in public funding for the stadium and that stadium could cost $1.5 billion. Fisher claims he is looking for investors to buy into his business, but he also claims he and his family can pay for his share of the stadium construction which would include a $300 million loan.

The land needed for the stadium on a piece of property on the Strip is now available. The Bally’s Corporation has blown up the Tropicana Hotel and once the rubble is cleaned up, the land will be ready for the construction …