Outlook gloomy for DC baseball
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WASHINGTON - The president of Major League Baseball called Washington DC&#39;s legislation for a new stadium &quot;wholly unacceptable&quot; on Wednesday night and halted all business and promotional activities for the Washington Nationals until further notice.
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The District of Columbia has failed to meet several deadlines in the agreement for a new Washington nationals baseball stadium, Major league Baseball officials charged Thursday, putting the city in default of the lease agreement.
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Baseball's plan to move the Expos to Washington might come apart after the District of Columbia Council voted last night to require private financing for at least half the cost of a new ballpark.
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The deal to move the Expos to Washington, DC, is, as Mayor Anthony Williams puts it, &quot;in jeopardy.&quot; If it falls apart, baseball will not resume talks with other cities until after Dec. 31, and it&#39;s unclear where the Expos would play this season.
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A new stadium for Major League Baseball in Washington DC will cost around $90 million more than the mayor expects, the city&#39;s independent chief financial officer told the City Council Thursday.
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Competition makes for a dreary outlook for the company.
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At some point, one would think Washington&#39;s new Major League Baseball franchise -- assuming it does, at some point, play in Washington -- would want to plaster
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Professional baseball appears ready to make a return to the nation's capital, as an announcement could come later this week that the Montreal Expos will be relocated to Washington, DC for the 2005 season.
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Reasonable people can disagree about Mayor Anthony Williams's latest plan for bringing professional baseball back to Washington. Unfortunately, a lot of the discussion so far has been based on misleading vocabulary and faulty assumptions. As the D.C. Council considers further action today, here's a business columnist's guide for thinking about the issue:
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Washington, DC, City Council is due to debate stadium funding again today in an attempt to keep Major League Baseballâs return to the city from being stillborn.
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No longer the Montreal Expos, not quite the Washington Nationals, baseballâs sad, homeless ballclub-in-limbo ought to hit the road and barnstorm through the season.
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The toy and game maker has a cloudy outlook for the crucial season.
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Anthony Williams said today that he was deeply pessimistic about salvaging the deal to bring the Expos to the city.
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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As Major League Baseball&#39;s deadline for funding a Washington stadium nears, the debate has gotten down and dirty. For months, Northern Virginia officials had been good sports about losing the Montreal Expos to the District of Columbia in September.
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If Major League Baseball and the District of Columbia Council fail to reach an agreement to keep the Nationals in Washington, baseball would be faced with the difficult question
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Baseball fans in the nation's capital were anxiously awaiting formal word on Wednesday that the financially beleaguered Montreal Expos would relocate to the city for the 2005 season.