{"id":121,"date":"2009-04-06T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/4\/6\/Mandalay-Bay-is-best-in-LV"},"modified":"2009-04-06T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T18:36:00","slug":"mandalay-bay-is-best-in-lv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mandalay-bay-is-best-in-lv\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandalay Bay is best in LV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/image001.jpg\" \/> It may be tempting fate to mention this, but online voters like <strong>Mandalay Bay<\/strong> best among Strip casinos &#8230; or, at bare minimum, dislike it the least. Voters in the <strong>Steve Friess<\/strong> &quot;Stripper Poll&quot; on which casino most ought to be imploded <a href=\"http:\/\/vote.sparklit.com\/poll.spark\/1097759\">have cast nary a ballot<\/a> against the big place with the <strong>Komodo Dragon <\/strong>(seen giving rival casinos a Bronx cheer). As for the winners\/losers of this ignominious race, <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong> still holds the lead but only 16 votes separate its first-place status from the fourth-place spot held by <strong>Imperial Palace<\/strong>. &quot;Impotent Palace,&quot; look to thy laurels!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Baseball season:<\/strong> Six months of alternating paradise and torment &#8212; paid out in 162 increments &#8212; begin today. This <strong>Los Angeles Angels<\/strong> fan is at best guardedly optimistic, seeing how the team continues to accrue one-dimensional sluggers, tubby <strong>Bobby Abreu<\/strong> being the latest specimen. Also, with our three top-shelf pitchers on the &#8230; well, on the shelf for time being, the starting rotation is the weakest it&apos;s been since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Now with two of the best Angels of recent memory, <strong>Garret Anderson<\/strong> and <strong>Casey Kotchman<\/strong>, playing for the Atlanta Braves, I&apos;m actually going to have to start thinking positive thoughts about the Braves, if not of their tiresome manager, <strong>Bobby Cox<\/strong>, whose incessant petulance wore out its welcome, oh, around 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be tempting fate to mention this, but online voters like Mandalay Bay best among Strip casinos &#8230; or, at bare minimum, dislike it the least. Voters in the Steve Friess &quot;Stripper Poll&quot; on which casino most ought to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mandalay-bay-is-best-in-lv\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,7,11,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}