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|5.2.05 @ 4:32PM|#
I wonder how many of those yahoos booing Carol Shwartz actually live in the District.
|5.2.05 @ 5:24PM|#
Hey,
Everyone know that sports stadiums revitalize communities.
|5.2.05 @ 5:52PM|#
"Subsidies and Lies
How baseball came back to D.C"
Well, considering the city they represent that's kind of appropriate don't ya think?
|5.2.05 @ 6:25PM|#
The entire history of the Expos/Nationals franchise in the 1990's and early 2000's is a sordid, ugly mess, from Claude Brochu's mismanagement to Loria's double-crossing of his minority partners and his Selig-sanctioned strip-mining of the franchise's assets after the Marlins purchase. I note that the yahoos currently bellowing about steroids and their impact on the game's "integrity" said nothing while all of the shenanigans between Selig, Loria and Henry were going on - further evidence that sports "journalism" by and large is a collection tank for the bottom-feeders who couldn't make it as real reporters.
|5.2.05 @ 7:39PM|#
Hey,
Everyone know that sports stadiums revitalize communities.
Well, except they don't. The best economic analyses available indicate that they're a wash at best. See here, here and here for a start.
Or, if you were being sarcastic, my apologies.
|5.2.05 @ 10:09PM|#
Apology accepted. That's just the mantra that the pols trot out every time their wealthy masters want a new building (with more luxury boxes for non-fans). The only "revitalized area" I can think of is Camden Yards and the inner harbor in Baltimore. Of course, that's the model that they all point to.
|5.3.05 @ 7:12AM|#
The NAT'S stadium will rise in price from $535 million to well over $750 million due to the impending US Supreme Court ruling this summer that municipalities do not have cart blanch on eminent domain seizures. They will then have to look to the current JFK site or Northern Verginia to build it. Bottom line the team may only be in DC for three years before moving on! Remember they were called the EXPOS.