The other paper in town describes this in more detail. Basically, the stadium subsidy seekers have resorted to trolling sports bars with petitions, on the theory that the patrons will decide that signing up is the easiest way to end the interruption and return to the evening's business of getting drunk and/or laid. A classic illustration of why the Founders wanted political life to have some qualification more stringent than maintaining a pulse for twenty-one years.
Uh ... excuse me? The New York Avenue site is in one of the worst neighborhoods in Washington DC -- druggies and prostitutes and poverty of the most wretched kind. I'm excited about baseball in the capitol but not in the District, and not in that location. How many Reston residents will be traveling to the most wretched part of the metro area to watch a lousy team?
I also wish the media would be honest about the durned location.