Good. Its about time somebody told the MLB and the owners to get lost. You want a brand new stadium? Help build it.
Ya know, there are about two dozen ball parks In the Pheonix area (spring training parks) and also in FloridA that could be used.
Lots of baseball fans in Arizona could use a guest team for a year or two, and they have facilities that sit empty most of the summer. Some are owned by the Counties, and most will only seat a small crowd, (About the same as the Expos are used to).
I wonder who was going to keep all the income from renting out the sky boxes under the original sweetheart deal.
One of the few good things our local governments did in So. California was to tell two football teams to take a hike after they issued "build us a new stadium or else we're moving..." ultimatums.
Las Vegas..
The Libertarian in me says, "So What?" I don't believe that cities should be spending tax dollars on a playpen for owners and players to play kids games for millions and millions of dollars.
That said, my real question is: Would any of you out there enter in a a contract with Washington D.C.?
Season tickets are sold out and they have a 3 year lease at RFK. Something will get worked out.
The Brooklyn Cyclones, who play in Coney Island, routinely outdrew the Expos...
Some guy is selling-off Nationals' stuff (caps, teeshirts, etc.), as apparently the MLB shop has stopped offering it for sale. A $25 Nationals New Era cap is going for $71.00.
"Major League Baseball on Wednesday called the proposed new deal "wholly unacceptable."
Yeah, the government shouldn't have to pay a dime for a new stadium. Let the team collapse and maybe we can stop the public funding of stadiums. If the star players need to forgo a few million dollars, so be it.
The roman coliseum was paid for with private funds, why should the expos get better treatment.
Bravo. That team has no business going back to Washington DC, a market that has proven itself to be anemic twice in the past 35 years. The only reason MLB selected WDC is because Bud Selig is a guilty white male liberal who wanted to placate America's highest-minority-population city.
It would be a guaranteed financial failure. One month after the announcement that the team would be moving, only 10,000 season tickets were sold. 10,000! In any viable market the season tickets would have been sold out already -- 40,000 or more.
Give the team to the Virginia suburbs, with a new ballpark out near Dulles. That's where it should have gone in the first place.
Good. DC is a horrible place for a baseball team. Time would bear that out, I assure you.
Anything someone like Mayor Anthony Williams lobbies for so diligently MUST be inherently bad.