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July 27, 2004

N. Va. hasn't landed land

More roadblocks in the Montreal Expos relocation saga: The Washington Post has revealed that Northern Virginia's Loudoun County, which has proposed a $442 million stadium surrounded by a 450-acre development called "Diamond Lake," doesn't actually have an agreement to buy most of those 450 acres. Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority director Gabe Paul, who wrote to MLB executives in May that "most of the land parcels comprising this stunning 450-acre site are now under the control of the development group, including the property where the ballpark will sit," now says: "In any statements I've ever made, I don't think I've been deceptive at all."

Virginia stadium backers point out that Washington, D.C., hasn't even picked a stadium site, and doesn't own several of those proposed, either. All of which is more evidence that if Bud Selig goes ahead with picking a new home for the Expos at the August owners' meetings, he'll be gambling on a work-in-progress - which wasn't the original shakedown scheme at all.

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