June 21, 2004
Expos! Getcher Expos!
More jockeying for position in the three-legged race to be the new home of the Montreal Expos:
- Northern Virginia's Loudoun County is set to announce details of its stadium plan today, holding out the lure of a $4.5 billion housing and commercial development to improve the attractiveness of its site in the middle of nowhere. "This site has the potential to provide a new paradigm in where baseball stadiums are located and how urban-style town centers are developed," said developer Laurence E. Bensignor, providing his own new paradigm in English grammar.
- Goofus and Gallant are exhorting Norfolk area businesses to get behind their stadium plan by putting down deposits on season tickets and distributing brochures. "We need to get the business community behind us," said Will Somerindyke Jr. "If the community steps up and shows support, it will really help this effort and future efforts." Of course, if the Expos move to D.C. or Northern Virginia, the notion of "future efforts" is fairly moot.
- And finally, a prospective ownership group has submitted a bid to MLB to buy the Expos and move them to San Juan, Puerto Rico. We'd make a snide remark about how MLB's deadline for bids passed last month - but then, they're from Miami, where there's apparently a different definition of "deadline."
Thanks to FoS correspondent Neal S. for the links.
Posted by Neil deMause
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