More New Stadium Rumors

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Originally Posted by coggs

Nah, I hear there is a HUGE demand right now for 90,000+ seat stadiums. Snyder could put an ad in the paper, hold an open house, he'll have it sold by lunchtime!!!

How old is FedEx? The jets wanted a stadium on the West Side of Manhattan that never happened. I am unfamiliar with the local politics of DC, but I can't imagine this would be an easy thing to get done.

Local politics of D.C. You mean the town that voted Barry to be Mayor after he served time for smoking crack on T.V.?

Let me tell you all that you need to know. The D.C. city council makes a deal with MLB and says, "We will build you a stadium!" So the team comes here. The council says, "Oh, that is way too expensive. MLB must pay more!" So this goes back and forth for months. Well, all of a sudden, hurricane Katrina comes along and demolishes a city or two. Well that didn't exactly help the prices for building supplies. The council and MLB strike a deal and the council toots their own horn about how they took on Baseball and won. What they neglected to address was they actually ended up paying more than the original amount because they didn't lock in the contract before all of the materials went through the roof.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a snapshot into the "local politics" of D.C.

It would be funny to watch them in the middle another fiascoe, though.