DC Baseball: Catch the fever!
Washington is lame.
My feeling is, the DC City Council members have been disingenuous, and have pulled an A-Rod. They teased everyone in a hopeful city, then ruined the deal and followed the cash. And slapped someone petulantly.
Granted:
1. Mayor Williams did not negotiate the greatest deal with the MLB (He wears a bowtie almost all the time. Listen, I like bowties, but it's difficult to pull off without looking gimmicky. Williams can't pull it off and looks gimmicky).
2. Baseball deserves a swift kick. The owners are huge jerks, and it should surprise no one that they'll opt for the easiest, cheapest way out of owning the Expos/Nats.
Still. The Council members imply that scuttling the stadium will generate a windfall upwards of $400 mil. That's the money that won't go to the stadium, right? In the words of the guy in the Gillete commercial, "Wrong." That money doesn't exist until there are plans to build a stadium, and it was never intended to come from run-of-the-mill DC taxpayers in the first place, it was intended to come from businesses, who would theoretically profit from baseball in DC.
I know DC isn't a city without problems (it's no Baltimore - the city from which Peter Angelos is currently pointing and laughing), but flipping Bud Selig the proverbial bird won't solve a thing.
Thomas Boswell's WashPost Column
My feeling is, the DC City Council members have been disingenuous, and have pulled an A-Rod. They teased everyone in a hopeful city, then ruined the deal and followed the cash. And slapped someone petulantly.
Granted:
1. Mayor Williams did not negotiate the greatest deal with the MLB (He wears a bowtie almost all the time. Listen, I like bowties, but it's difficult to pull off without looking gimmicky. Williams can't pull it off and looks gimmicky).
2. Baseball deserves a swift kick. The owners are huge jerks, and it should surprise no one that they'll opt for the easiest, cheapest way out of owning the Expos/Nats.
Still. The Council members imply that scuttling the stadium will generate a windfall upwards of $400 mil. That's the money that won't go to the stadium, right? In the words of the guy in the Gillete commercial, "Wrong." That money doesn't exist until there are plans to build a stadium, and it was never intended to come from run-of-the-mill DC taxpayers in the first place, it was intended to come from businesses, who would theoretically profit from baseball in DC.
I know DC isn't a city without problems (it's no Baltimore - the city from which Peter Angelos is currently pointing and laughing), but flipping Bud Selig the proverbial bird won't solve a thing.
Thomas Boswell's WashPost Column
posted by Pete at 2:35 PM
Infrequency and Indie Punching. Not Professionalism.
3 Comments:
I can't get too upset about. It would be nice to have choice in my baseballing, particularly since I like baseball so, and the games are fun to go to. I would still rather go to an Oriole game. It seems to be the exact opposite of my 'I like the Redskins now the stupid Ravens move to town' paradox. I am already in a monogamous baseball relationship. I just don't care.
I am more interested in the polotics of it. It seems difficult (and we have discussed this before) because DC takes its local government so seriously. In any other instance you often have city and state support. DC has one stop and that one stop is smaller than any other state government. This photo says it all:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/asection/2004-12-15/5.htm
That's a great picture. She looks like a lot of fun. Is he laughing?
I just figure they all want to be mayor, and it's not difficult to convince their constitchency that jerk baseball owners are trying to screw them. Just rub your thumb and forefinger together. That means taxes.
I agree with that and so does everyone else on the John Thompson radio show. I listened to it on the ride home. On the plus side. I got home at 4:50.
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