[tom h]

"There is no such formal opposition in the District to the proposed ballpark along New York Avenue NE, the favored site."

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.

[steve-b]

That's precisely the point. A stadium at NY Avenue would at least produce some benefit (though the corporate-welfare giveaway is still unjustified) by displacing the mess occupying the location currently. On the other hand, a stadium at Pentagon City would be an unmitigated fiasco, displacing other high-value (and, unlike the stadium, taxpaying) development.