April 14, 2004
N.J. talks of luring MLB team
New Jersey sports chief George Zoffinger is again talking about bringing a major-league baseball team to the Meadowlands, but this time it's not the Mets or Yankees he's targeted. Zoffinger tells the Newark Star-Ledger he's had three discussions recently with Chicago White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf, a member of baseball's relocation committee, on moving a third team to the New York metro area: "It's gone from something I didn't think was possible to something that actually could happen."
Don't hold your breath: While New Jersey is the one place that it might make sense for a team like the Florida Marlins to build a stadium with private dollars, just to get a crack at the New York media market, there's no way the Mets and Yankees owners would let a new team cannibalize their profits without a bloody fight. (And, of course, even having a share of the New York media market hasn't much helped certain other teams.)
