April 23, 2004
Expos rumour watch
With the Montreal Expos home opener tonight (their previous "home games" this year were in Puerto Rico), everyone and their nameless sister is coming out of the woodwork to offer unattributed speculation about the team's likely fate:
- "The bottom line is, there's little to no chance that Las Vegas would get the team. It's just not going to happen," a "well-informed major league source" tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "There are a lot of offers on the table. There are other offers that are better than Las Vegas." Another unnamed "baseball insider" told the paper: "They're using Las Vegas to get a better deal somewhere else."
- A "highly ranked baseball source" tells the Toronto Globe and Mail that MLB has all but decided to move the Expos to Washington, D.C., and that Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos will agree to a buyout of his territorial rights: "Once Bud gets all his ducks lined up in D.C., things are going to move pretty quickly."
So that's the reason for the three-year delay: it's the ducks!
Posted by Neil deMause
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