Finally, mercifully, MLB has signed the stadium lease. Barring a cruel twist, baseball fans in Washington can finally exhale, and baseball's bastard sons can finally move forward - but the Council needs to agree to a number of provisions first, and the sale of bonds to cover construction costs must begin. So it's almost time to begin counting down the days until Smulyan's arrival...
"We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Expos to Washington...Because we believe in the future of baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month." (Bob DuPuy, via AP, 3/05/2006)
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