MLB is about to announce the sale of the Nats to the Lerner Group, and DC is already pissed off. Convicted crack smoker (and city councilman) Marion Barry is upset that the new ownership has "rented black people" to use in its group. As Steven Pearlstein points out, this is "a pathetic attempt to play the race card."
Of course, Barry's credit is about zero in the eyes of most of the people from Northern VA who brave SE to go to the Nats games. Not to mention the city bent over to MLB's demands to use just about 100% public financing for the stadium.
Both sides could have done two things to prevent this situation:
1. Public ownership of the team, Packers style. Sell nice looking, commemorative, non-transferrable shares to people for $100-200 each. People would eat those up, even non-Nats fans. You could easily raise the $450M cost of the team this way.
2. Sell things like engraved bricks to pay for the stadium. You pay $250, you get your name on a brick that goes in the stadium. Old school idea, but quite effective.
At any rate, I'm just happy I live on the free side of the Potomac and that I don't have to pay for any of this mess, other than tickets.
2 comments:
That's good where you live. Who'd want to live in an area where a crackhead is the councilman. A guy like that who smokes crack and loves to play the race card is a threat. Hopefully, the Nats will do well.
i am so confused. what are nats? i clicked on your link, but it said URL not found. i am guessing they are a baseball team? yeah, i know, tease all you want - i am completely sports illiterate.
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