Bowser and some members of the city council have been actively courting the team to come back to the city and are dangling the possibility that the site where RFK Stadium now sits would make a fine home. Read more

And Ezra Pound. He basically held a salon during visiting hours at St. Elizabeth’s. Read more

More ridiculousness about the public money binge for stadiums in DC: Read more

I will gladly give you 90M over 20 years for $50M today.
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I think you’re overlooking something here—the fact that DC no longer has any people in need of psychiatric care...nor do we have any homeless people... So really, we can just throw money around on whatever. Read more

If you’ve been to RFK in the past decade, you would know the answer to this question. Read more

RFK is not only old, it’s been barely maintained for years. Saying it has character is like walking into a crack house and saying it has “good bones.”
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I wish someone would create a running tab of the tens of billions of public dollars spent on these projects. Just from the last 20 years or so. Id love to see that, just the numbers publicly reported. Read more

Anything older than 5 years might as well been constructed during the Paleozoic. That’s the only (incredibly stupid) reason. Read more

Why is RFK never an option for sports teams? I like RFK. It has character. Plus it’s already built and has history and stuff Read more

Yeah it’s his fault. Owners have no real ties to the cities their teams are in anymore. It’s all “business” and these robber barons almost never keep homes in these cities and if they do, they’re isolated from ‘real people’ in the ‘community’ and so, yeah...I blame them. If you had an investment in the place you’re… Read more

160 million to spruce up Nats Park? Whaaaaa... It’s eight years old! I can’t even imagine how that money will be used. They built a new team store from existing space last year. not sure if that was part of the money but that sure as shit didn’t cost $160 million. Read more

At least with football, as the experience of watching a game at home gets better and better what’s the point of spending so much money on stadiums? I can’t imagine ever paying to go to an NFL game again when you can watch multiple games in HD on your couch. Just let all the teams relocate to LA and play at the fields… Read more

The idea is that a team with nice facilities will be able to attract a higher class of free agent which in turn will make the major league team better which in turn will attract more fans to games which in turn will line the pockets of the billionaire owner. Read more

I get it, but also, isn’t it actually his fault? He could certainly decline the money, or not ask for money at all, whichever one of those is appropriate. Yes, yes, what right-thinking American wouldn’t take free money, but he is in fact permitted to have some principles. Read more

Muriel Bowser is the worst thing to happen to DC since Marion Barry. Her policy keeps poor people poor and gets rich people richer. Keep on building projects, Muriel! Read more

This entire concept seems fairly accurate and it’s something that we’ve said about sports for centuries. If we accept this at face value, then gov’t pays to keep sports running for the unwashed masses so they don’t pay attention to everything else. Granted, that’s a messed up thing for a number of reasons. For the… Read more

“There’s so much money coming into D.C. these days that it’s possible to fund all the corruption that’s always been a staple of the city government and still get things done.” Read more

If any team needs the practice it’s the Wizards.
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“We’re dealing with the decline of the American empire. In the final throes of a dying empire, they resort to entertainment and circuses to divert the masses. And that’s what we have here.” Read more