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July 30, 2004

It's raining stadiums!

First the stadium snowball effect hit New York, now it's Washington, D.C.'s turn: With the district considering plunking down the Montreal Expos in RFK Stadium until a new home can be built by taxpayers, RFK's current tenants, D.C. United, are demanding a new soccer-only stadium for themselves. "We can't continue to play back seat to baseball and have to figure out our future based on what Major League Baseball decides is going to happen," MLS commissioner Don Garber told reporters. "We've been here since 1996; we've been the major tenants at RFK. We've got a great relationship with the mayor and with the sports commission, but we've got to get a deal done as quickly as possible."

D.C. mayor Anthony Williams has previously expressed support for a soccer-only stadium, though no serious discussions have taken place as to who would pay for it. Not entirely unlike the mayor's baseball stadium proposal.

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