Northern Virginia Takes A Slight Lead In Landing 'Les Expos' in 2004?

Brian Hannigan and Gabe Paul Jr. of the Virginia Baseball Authority uncover a model of the ballpark as architect Bryan Trubey discusses possible locations.




It looks like Northern Virigina might've taken a slight over D.C. & Portland in trying to bring the Montreal Expos to town in 2004. Area politicos & bigwigs recently unveiled a model of what the new 50,000 seat ballpark would look like and how it would be finance (approximate cost: $400 million!!!!!! 5 preliminary ballpark sites have been looked at, but a final location havent been chosen yet). Officials in D.C. & Portland still haven't offered a concrete plan on how they would build a ballpark & what it would look like, but I'm sure that would happen eventually . . . .


3/29 Washington Post Article on NoVa's Stadium Presentation to MLB Officials



Virginia Baseball Stadium Authority Website . . NOTE: A couple of fairly good computer generated photo of what the ballpark would look like is on the home page

 

Give me the Knight's downtown and I'm perfectly happy. No overpriced major league crap.

 

I wish someone would come up with a way for the Knights to play Uptown . . . Hardly anybody pays any attention to them in Fort Mill now . . . Shinn thought it was a good idea at the time, but just like the Coliseum right after Knights Stadium was built, the trend to build ballparks/arenas downtown started .. . City missed the boat on both issues !!!!!

 

I say shut the team down and have an allocation draft of the players out to the other teams... it would help with the revenue sharing problem.

 

PS- You also forgot to add that Puerto Rico was being considered as a possible home to them.

 

Ooops, I forgot about that . . . . Puerto Rico was expressing interest in having the Expos move there, but I don't know if they have a legitimate shot or not . . . Could they finance a new stadium The one where the Expos are playing their 'home' games is a short term solution at best . .

 

Bump . . It looks like Northern Virgina M-I-G-H-T have taken a small lead in landing the Expos now . . DC Politicos are getting cold feet about the proposed stadium financing plan


DC Politicos Get Cold Feet Over Ballpark Financing Plan


DC Finance Chief Gets Cold Feet Over Ballpark Financing Plan

 

bump . . . A better color photo of what a proposed MLB Ballpark in Virginia would look like . . . BTW, isn't MLB suppose to decide by the all-star break what's going to happen to the Expos in 2004 ? ?

 

MLB Dragging Its Feet Again on the Fate of Les Expos?

Bump . . . It looks like MLB won't have a decision by the All-Star break on whether or where les Expos will play in 2004 (Montreal, DC/Northern Virgina, Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Charlotte, Research Triangle Park, Hartford, Portland, Fresno, etc.) . . . I guess MLB is really skeered that O's owner Peter Angelos is going to bitch about the Expos playing 40 miles down I-95 . . . They are the one market that can support MLB now and have 2 (albeit, incomplete) proposals from DC & NoVa to build a new ballpark (after the team plays at RFK Stadium for 2-3 years) . .


MLB Says: No Decision on Expos Fate by All-Star Break Next Week




Tom Boswell WASHINGTON POST Commentary on MLB/Expos Issue

 

Bump . . . Arlington County Politicos Say: 'We don't want no stinkin MLB Ballpark!!!!!!!'