Cato's Doug Bandow makes the case against D.C. Baseball:
Franchise owners typically win taxpayer support only through threats: Pay us off, or we will leave, they say. Give us a new stadium, or we'll go someplace that will. Take the current competition for the Montreal Expos, who have been up for grabs ever since Major League Baseball assumed ownership of the financially ailing franchise. The only question seems to be, who will offer the biggest inducements to get them?Virginia and the District shouldn't play this game. Stadiums don't constitute a great unmet social need. Sports should be a private enterprise, privately funded, just as it was during most of the first half of the 20th century.
Good to see Bandow chiming in, however, he needn't worry as baseball won't be coming back to Washington anytime soon.
