I would have LOVED to hear the DC Council tell them:
"You don't like the deal ? Fine. Play elsewehere, because Dc **owns** RFK, and if you want to play there, it's 10 million a game, for an entire season, and cash in advance, please. . ."
Who do you know can afford to pay $285 per seat? Certainly not the wellfare queens in DC.
The stadium probably can't seat more than 50k, so estimating 35 thousand attendance per game (Highly unlikely), you could never recover 10 million per game.
Oh, and I forgot to ask how much money RFK stadium makes in the ABSENCE of Baseball?
I'm not saying DC should build the stadium mind you.
Some towns have really gotten burned on that approach.
Others, Like Seattle got a great deal, being paid back
on time, and drawing way more in tax revenues than ever
expected. It was thought that King County would eat a
great deal of this debt, but it never happened.
Oh, the deal was worse than that! They didn't want to play in RFK... They wanted a brand news satdium complex on all new real estate. To be built by DC. While the DC-owned RFK sits in mothballs.