Reply #5: good. after 30 years of playing DC like a fiddle [View All]

let them take their little dog and pony show elsewhere, if that's how they operate. Many cities 'need' baseball to prove they are major league towns. That might have worked for Phoenix or Tampa, but we aalready are a major league city. In fact, we are the fucking major league. DC does not need to have the inferiority complex that leads us to beg a group of multi-millionaires to rape us financially. If the DC market is as good as everyone says, then someone will pony up the cash to invest in it. Otherwise, let them go to Las Vegas, or Nothern New Jersey, places that need the gratification. I don't need my prices to rise to pay for a stadium (oh, you thought all the businesses were going to simply 'absorb' the costs? right. sure, Pepco will just deduct it from the salary of the CEO, no problem, and bars will just deduct it from their profits. sure thing) And the cable companies will just pay the extra money for the regional sports network, won't affect your rates at all, no siree two bucks a month, with 1.50 going straight to Peter Angelos? no, they won't make DC people pay that, I'm sure)

We're all alright. If LA can survive without a football team (good for them) then we can live without baseball. Go take your pitiful extortion to a city that needs you, Mr. Selig. If you want to be in DC and make money off the millions of affluent people here, these are our terms, frankly, I think paying for half your stadium ain't bad, but maybe Las Vegas will pay for all of it. In case you hadn't noticed, we have two privately financed stadiums in the neighborhood, and both do quite well, thank you (the Wizards make money despie usually stinking up the joint and the MCI Center certainly makes money Abe Pollin ain't going broke and FedEx is a big part of the most profitable franchise in professional sports, more than the yankees, more than the cowboys, more than ManU.)