Baseball's Back in D.C. - MLB Chooses Washington for Montreal Expos Move

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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.

The city is planning its own news conference at a downtown location Wednesday afternoon, the official said.

The announcement will come one day before the 33rd anniversary of the Washington Senators' final game. The Senators moved to Texas after the 1971 season, which was also the last time a major league team changed cities.

Baseball has been looking for a new home for the Expos since the financially troubled team was bought by the other 29 major league owners in 2002.

[MediaMole]

Welcome the National League's Washington Bloviators!

[zarf]

Freeper Death Watch pool for Washington DC baseball starting after the World Series.

I give it 5 yrs max.

[FoxInSocks]

I heard name choices are Senators, Grays, or Monuments.

Monuments was also one of the choices for the old Bullets, but "fortunately" they became the Wizards instead.

[fat city]

They ought to build a statue of Frank Howard outside the inevitable new stadium.

[Loyalist]

The Expos have been doomed ever since 1976, when the Parti Quebecois first took office and the mass exodus of corporate headquarters and anglophones out of Montreal began. Montreal's economy never really recovered and neither did the Expos' fan base.

Montreal still hasn't paid off its debt from the 1976 Olympics (which Mayor-for-Life Jean Drapeau said could no more lose money than a man could have a baby), and Olympic Stadium is a crumbling eyesore which should have been torn down years ago.

Tant pis. Au revoir.

[steveo]

At least everyone will what end of the flag is up.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

They should name the team after the airport . . .

[wagglebee]

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[Freepdonia]

Freeper Death Watch pool for Washington DC baseball starting after the World Series. I give it 5 yrs max.

Selig and Angelos are hoping for less.

[Constitution Day]

Washington Exposés

[Freepdonia]

The Expos have been doomed ever since 1976,

The Expos have been doomed since Seligula became commissioner.

[frog_jerk_2004]

Some other possible team names:

• The Washington Spenders
• The Washington Lobbyists
• The Washington Filibusters
• The Washington Legislators
• The Washington Fat Cats
• The Washington Regulators
• The Washington Deficits
• The Washington Pork Barrels
• The Washington Crack Addicts
• The Washington Insiders
• The Washington Draft Dodgers
• The Washington Philanderers
• The Washington Pardoners
• The Washington Amendments
• The Washington Interns
• The Washington Appealers
• The Washington Ballot Stuffers

[KarlInOhio]

If they had moved during the Clinton administration I would have picked the Washington Expose.

[boop]

Senators is the obvious choice for the name. I just hope they keep RFK stadium with upgrades. It's a great stadium, and there is no reason the taxpayers should foot the bill for a whole new place.

[Strategerist]

I just hope they keep RFK stadium with upgrades.

About as much chance of that as Ann Coulter being the 2008 Democratic nominee for President.

Part of the whole move deal is a new stadium on the Anacostia River.

[Billthedrill]

OK, so now it reads "Washington: First In War, First In Peace, and Last In The National League."

[Verginius Rufus]

Washington ExPostFactos.

[raccoonradio]

In a poll on "what to name the new team", one choice ESPN gave respondents was "the DC Comics" :)

[pete anderson]

The Washington W's