July 23, 2004

Scuttling the Expos' butt

Remember yesterday, when we reported that baseball players union officials were predicting that the Montreal Expos would be moved to Washington, D.C. next year? Well, now those selfsame officials say it ain't so: "Nobody gave them assurances that they will be going to any location as opposed to anyplace else," union chief Don Fehr told the Washington Post. "People can make their own judgments on that, but we didn't make it for them."

Meanwhile, D.C. mayor Anthony Williams is gearing up for a possible Expos ruling by trash-talking his rivals across the Potomac, telling a local radio station: "How could Northern Virginia just presume that they're going to play in RFK?" (Either a D.C. or a Northern Virginia team, it's been reported, would play at D.C.'s RFK Stadium until a new stadium is built.) "If I can get a very good price for it, then obviously I want to do that. But we shouldn't just go around, trampsing around, presuming anything."