How appropriate-- brought to Washington by suckling the taxpayer teat. . .
The amazing part of this story...is that no one ever looked back at the "old" Senators...and grasped the low turnouts/attendance. The team was owned, I will admit, by the biggest tightwad in professional baseball history...and rarely carried more than 1 real 4-star player (Frank Howard from the 1960s teams, and Harmon Killebrew from the 1950s teams). The teams from the 1920s did offer Walter Johnson, and from the 30s...there was Early Winn and Joe Cronin. But this team simply couldn't generate cash to pay for a upscale team.
My bet is that the new Senators go into town...some bigwig with hopes of a "lobby" paradise pays for a upscale team for two or three years...and then the team drifts back to low numbers. Not one single senator or congressman will ever have to pay for tickets...and the amount of deals swung in the private seating will shock people. Lets face facts...who really attends games in DC in the summertime? Most of the congress is shut down for July - August. I doubt that the stands have more than 25,000 people in them for a Saturday game in August. This team will not last there. I will bet they vacate by 2009, and likely move to Vegas.