Larry Gude
Strung Out
...if anyone still cares.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050301121.html
...sold to an 80 year old guy. Oh, that's seeking stability all right.
This tale is so absurd it's not even funny. Baseball takes the 'national' pastime our of DC some 30 odd years ago.
The Expos were run into the ground for years, even playing home games OUT of the country, in Puerto Rico, because no one wanted to see them in Montreal, before finally moving, kind of, to DC.
With no owner until now. And no TV deal. And a hostile owner in Baltimore.
So, it seems a stadium will be built. Hopefully, it will open before nature claims the owner.
Angelos still owns the broadcast rights to the team. Don't ask.
And here it is, the thing I find most interesting; the reporting.
Yes, a reporter went out and claimed to know, correctly, as it turns out, who the knew ownership group would be. They guy is a hero in his trade today. Now, I enjoy sports talk, sports papers, SI and ESPN.
I've just never seen anything more 'make work' than a bunch of people running around trying to dig up the name so they can announce it a few days before the interested parties announce it.
This is simply the most anticlimactic thing I've ever heard of and the guy is a hero.
Oh well.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/03/AR2006050301121.html
...sold to an 80 year old guy. Oh, that's seeking stability all right.
This tale is so absurd it's not even funny. Baseball takes the 'national' pastime our of DC some 30 odd years ago.
The Expos were run into the ground for years, even playing home games OUT of the country, in Puerto Rico, because no one wanted to see them in Montreal, before finally moving, kind of, to DC.
With no owner until now. And no TV deal. And a hostile owner in Baltimore.
So, it seems a stadium will be built. Hopefully, it will open before nature claims the owner.
Angelos still owns the broadcast rights to the team. Don't ask.
And here it is, the thing I find most interesting; the reporting.
Yes, a reporter went out and claimed to know, correctly, as it turns out, who the knew ownership group would be. They guy is a hero in his trade today. Now, I enjoy sports talk, sports papers, SI and ESPN.
I've just never seen anything more 'make work' than a bunch of people running around trying to dig up the name so they can announce it a few days before the interested parties announce it.
This is simply the most anticlimactic thing I've ever heard of and the guy is a hero.
Oh well.
