Washington's Major League Divide [DC, NoVA compete for baseball team]

Wash. ComPost ^ | 7/11/2004 | Michael Laris and Lori Montgomery

[foreverfree]

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Washington area residents share a reverence for the same snaking river, get snarled in the same inching traffic, sweat in the same soggy air and enjoy the same upsides, annoyances and dangers that come with the seat of American power.

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But a dust-up over the right place to host a Major League Baseball team -- the nation's capital city or the country's fastest-growing county, 20 miles west -- is pitting area residents and officials against one another in a way that reopens old city vs. suburb debates.

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[foreverfree]

A DC team in VA would be inconvenient for me to attend. A team in DC proper would be another story.

A DC team in a 41,000 ballpark (smaller than Philly's Citizens Bank Park) would be inconvenient for a lot of people (myself included) to attend for a lot of reasons. :-)

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[GeronL]

There should be no public funding of stadiums. The private sector can do much better.