[Lunkhead_01]

Now the Expos players will at least get paid in real dollars now!

[Moose4]

Interesting. So where are they going to put them, RFK Stadium for now, until the local jurisdictions and MLB can gang up and gouge the taxpayers for a new park?

}:-)4

[inkling]

I hope they change the team's name. I hate it when teams keep their old names, even when it is nonsensical. To wit: Utah Jazz (from New Orleans), LA Lakers(from Minnesota), Arizona Cardinals (there aren't any cardinals in the desert), etc., etc.

[koolaidsmile]

Sweet! Can we call them the Senators now? I might stick with my O's though.

[doug from upland]

The Washington FReepers

[Arkinsaw]

Stick with the Senators, the historic name. Plus, the usual suspects in Washington city politics do not want it to be Senators since they are mad at the Feds for "Taxation without Representation" and all that. So I say make it the Senators.

[Skybird]

Plans call for a $440 million package that would include a new ballpark to be built along the Anacostia River about a dozen blocks south of the Capitol. The package also includes a $13 million refurbishment of RFK Stadium, where the team would play for three seasons while the new facility is being built.

Going to the crime-infested swamp of SE Washington DC is dangerous enough in the daytime; I wouldn't even go near it at night...

[gieriscm]

Thank God that DC, not northern VA, got stuck with this boondoggle.

Team Name: Washington Welfare Kings