Posted on 09/28/2004 7:39:13 PM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON — Major League Baseball will announce Wednesday that Washington will be the new home of the Montreal Expos, the Associated Press has learned.
A city official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington has been notified by Major League Baseball of the impending announcement that will return the national pastime to the nation's capital for the first time in 33 years.
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Yeah, I know that the wealthier people in Canada get their own doctors and I think it's ridiculous that socialism forces everyone else to suffer. It terrifies me that such a system could come here. Socialized medicine has never worked anywhere, but the American left seems to be itching to try it. I always thought it was fitting that the Expos were in Canada (and in welfare-ridden Quebec!), the entire team was a giant welfare case that had to be supported by the rest of the teams.
...and how fitting it is that the welfare team is going from Montreal to Washington, D.C. Now they will be laden with bureaucracy to boot!
All the best to them.
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