I just heard a decent joke... ...Our government

Why won't DC get a baseball team?

Because then Baltimore would want a professional team of their own.



But in all seriousness, what's the point of paying 500 million for a team? We already have enough steriod-popping uneducated rubes in congress, we don't need any more in Washington.

I hear they want to put the stadium in Northeast, no doubt leveling hundreds of 100 year old houses rich with historical significance to build a park that ultra-paranoid suburbanites still won't drive to. But it's NE, so demographically speaking, a bunch of Baseball players who tend to be young, muscle-bound dudes with no college education, a nasty drug habit and an excessive amount of bling sounds just about right.