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Viva Las Vegas, nothing personal. Where to the day and a double on Tundra. I'm coming to you live from Memphis.

Where to the day was going to be walking in Memphis because I'm walking in Memphis, but no, we got to talk about Las Vegas and the king.

Double on Tundra, get it. Where to the day Wednesday, May 11th. Let's break it down. It's relocation time. It's threatening the public time. It's, oh my God, the Oakland A's need a ballpark time.

So as nothing personal fans, you're very aware there are two situations in baseball that are a real problem.

Tampa Bay rays have no place to play because they don't want to stay in the trop in St. Pete. The Oakland A's have no place to play. They don't want to stay at the Coliseum site in Oakland.

So the process goes like this. The owner of the A's John Fisher. He spends his time working with Major League Baseball and they make sure that the owner has done everything possible to get a ballpark.

In a particular city, which happens to be the original city of the team, you have to show effort. And I'm not talking about a days worth an effort or a week's worth of effort.

I'm talking about a sustained effort over a period of years before Major League Baseball will let you consider relocation.

The reason why there's so much news being made about what happened with the Oakland A's is because is that you've been misled. You've been purposefully misled by baseball and by the Oakland A's organization.

And I want to explain what that is and why that is. The actual process is that Major League Baseball does not grant permission for a team to explore relocation.

Without that team first asking for permission to explore relocation. You don't wake up one day get a call from Rod Manford and say, Jay.

Start exploring relocation. Hello, it's very early in the day. You don't three hours behind you. Rob, what are you talking about? That's not what happens. Folks, they've got meetings upon meetings where they're doing reports on different possible relocation cities.

MLB is thinking about which cities they want to relocate to versus which cities they want to use for expansion. Do you think there's a coincidence that MLB Rob Manford says that it's possible expansion fees could be up to $2.2 billion.

I'm just curious. Do you think that's a coincidence for an owner to relocate. He has to pay a relocation fee that relocation fee has to be equal to or greater than an expansion fee because if you relocate to a city that's a possible expansion city, then you are taking expansion dollars out of the other owner's pockets and the owners will not give you their vote.

Therefore, you say you'll pay a relocation fee. Do you think that there's an negotiation that happens between a team and the league with what the relocation fee will be? Of course there is. Do you think that that relocation fee is discussed before the Oakland A's seek permission to seek relocation? Yes.

Do you think that seeking approval to relocate means that the Oakland A's are going to relocate? No. Do you think that baseball agreed to say they instructed the A's to relocate and to start seeking relocation possibilities because the A's wanted not to offend their fans and the plane baseball. Yes. Is that how we did it? No.

I want to explain why we did what we did in Florida. We also needed permission from baseball to seek relocation. That's when we went to various places, whether it be Charlotte, Portland, San Antonio, Vegas, etc.

We wanted the local Miami officials to know very well that we were the ones seeking to relocate because you and the public were not giving us the deal that we needed to be competitive. A lot of irony there. Don't at me at David P. Samson. I understand it hasn't worked out. I get it.

But if you actually look back at the Marlins Park deal and the total amount of public involvement, can I give you a little primer here? That was 2009. So it's about 12 years ago. It was a $515 million project. And the public put in 515 minus 165.

Right. So they put in about 340 when people tell you they put billions of dollars in there, not telling you the truth. That's like when you buy a house I've explained to you and you get a mortgage for $100,000.

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