The only way Major League Baseball would agree to move the Expos to DC was if the city committed to building a publicly funded stadium. When the DC City council passed an ordinance requiring some private funding for the stadium, Selig threatened to pull the team and send them elsewhere. They should have told him to get bent. Selig was out of options at that point (MLB's attempt to gin up a bidding war between DC and NoVA fell apart when the Arlington County Board, in one of the few wise and prudent decisions in its history, listened to public demand and rejected the only viable Virginia sites); DC could have driven a much harder bargain.
Selig was out of options at that point (MLB's attempt to gin up a bidding war between DC and NoVA fell apart when the Arlington County Board, in one of the few wise and prudent decisions in its history, listened to public demand and rejected the only viable Virginia sites); DC could have driven a much harder bargain. Selig was claiming that Portland, Las Vegas, Mexico and Puerto Rico were all options. DC wanted the team bad.