 Team officials traveled to San Antonio, Texas, in December 2005, to meet with officials who showed them potential stadium locations around the city and discussed plans to finance a ballpark.The Marlins also flirted with interest from Las Vegas, Nevada, and Portland, Oregon in 2006.Although the Marlins did not accept any stadium offers from other cities, such talk of relocation heightened fan anxiety that Miami could lose its team just as Montreal recently lost the Expos—Loria's previously-owned team.