Friday, May 07, 2004
Baseball "Serious" About D.C.
Stop me if you've seen that headline before, but yesterday MLB'sExtortion Relocation Committee once again reassured Washington, D.C. that it was really, truly under consideration as the permanent home of the Expos. Mayor Anthony Williams said after the meeting:
"We were pleased to hear from baseball that they would not be here entertaining this proposal from Washington, D.C., if they were not seriously interested in our market. They assured us that they are not stringing us along."
The District of Columbia's current proposal calls for the District to pay the full cost of a 41,000-seat stadium in one of four locations: New York Avenue at North Capitol Street, the Anacostia River waterfront near South Capitol Street, a site overhanging Interstate 395 near the Southwest waterfront, or the current site of RFK Stadium. This last would be cheapest, at $278 million; the Southwest waterfront site would be the most expensive, $383 million. The park would be funded by taxes on tickets, parking, concessions, as well as a tax on the District's largest businesses.
An ostentatiously unimpressed Peter Angelos yawned: "The members of the baseball relocation committee are all very busy individuals. I think they came because they were invited to come by Mayor Williams." According to Jack Evans of the D.C. Council, Jerry Reinsdorf has assured him that Angelos's opposition "is not an automatic disqualification."
Yeah, that sounds reassuring...
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Stop me if you've seen that headline before, but yesterday MLB's
"We were pleased to hear from baseball that they would not be here entertaining this proposal from Washington, D.C., if they were not seriously interested in our market. They assured us that they are not stringing us along."
The District of Columbia's current proposal calls for the District to pay the full cost of a 41,000-seat stadium in one of four locations: New York Avenue at North Capitol Street, the Anacostia River waterfront near South Capitol Street, a site overhanging Interstate 395 near the Southwest waterfront, or the current site of RFK Stadium. This last would be cheapest, at $278 million; the Southwest waterfront site would be the most expensive, $383 million. The park would be funded by taxes on tickets, parking, concessions, as well as a tax on the District's largest businesses.
An ostentatiously unimpressed Peter Angelos yawned: "The members of the baseball relocation committee are all very busy individuals. I think they came because they were invited to come by Mayor Williams." According to Jack Evans of the D.C. Council, Jerry Reinsdorf has assured him that Angelos's opposition "is not an automatic disqualification."
Yeah, that sounds reassuring...
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