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    Bill Shaikin: Why the A's 30-year commitment to Nevada has a 'Get Out of Vegas Free' card

    by Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times May 25, 2024 3 minutes
    An artist's rendering of what the Oakland Athletics' Las Vegas ballpark could look like.

    The pitch to the Nevada legislature was simple: If you provide the Oakland Athletics with $380 million in public funding toward a new ballpark, the A's will agree to move to Las Vegas and stay there for at least 30 years.

    The A's got the funding. However, the agreement intended to bind the A's to Las Vegas provides the team with an unusual escape clause: If ever a tax is aimed at the A's, the team can leave town without penalty.

    "That is not a normal clause in these things," said in so-called non-relocation agreements in Major League Baseball.

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