Well, yes, maybe it is too early to get excited about the new stadium. But maybe not.
In the Washington Post this morning, a report by David Nakamura and Thomas Heath says that Major League Baseball is “very concerned” about the lease deal. Skeptics and pessimists probably read that as a gloom-and-doom scenario. And a piece by Dave Sheinin points out that much of the Nationals operation remains on hold, basically, because the owners and administrators are all still the same lame duck caretakers who ran the team last year.
However, on the BallPark Guys discussion forum (the best forum I’ve found for talking about the Nationals), the general feeling is that MLB is really just making the DC Council sweat it out for a few days before they, the team owners of MLB, give the only reasonable answer they can to the new deal: yes, we’ll go ahead.
Fact is, MLB doesn’t have a better town than Washington for this team, and they probably won’t get a better deal than what the Council coughed up in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.
But I’m not yet breathing easy about the stadium and the team. Only when both sides have said yes, will I rejoice.
Categories: baseball, washington-dc
We’re watching this, too. And I agree Baseball doesn’t have a better place to take this team. (Las Vegas as a baseball town? I don’t think so) And we proved it by coming out last year. It is a huge shame this whole process was delayed so long - this team needs an owner.
Still, I’m ready to buy seats for a saturday or sunday game in April!
Julie