September 14, 2004
When in doubt, confer
If a bureaucrat is someone who responds to a crisis by calling a meeting, then Major League Baseball is positively Kafkaesque: More meetings are scheduled this week with representatives of Northern Virginia and the District of Columbia to discuss the never-ending Montreal Expos relocation. This is almost certainly just killing time until the RICO arbitration is resolved next month - though the fact that D.C. and Virginia have each gotten two visits from MLB in the last month while nobody else has gotten any can't make baseball boosters in Norfolk and Las Vegas very happy.
In related news, Virginia's Fairfax County Board of Supervisors has launched a study into how having a stadium just across the county line in Loudoun County would affect traffic patterns in the region. If you'll recall, Fairfax County needs to give its blessing to new highways before the stadium can go forward, so Virginia baseball boosters - and MLB - will no doubt be watching this development carefully.
