First Bush, Now This Cropp

One of the few things I was looking forward to next year was being able to watch baseball in Washington, and particularly the San Francisco Giants. Now, DC Council Chairwoman Linda Cropp has withdrawn her support for the original deal with MLB to build a new stadium by the Anacostia waterfront, and instead has expressed support for building a stadium adjacent to RFK Stadium. If this proposal passes the Council, the deal will be killed and there would be no baseball in DC.

It's bad enough I have to deal with the fucking Republicans, now this?!

DC political insiders say that Cropp is doing this in order to have any legitimate shot of running for mayor because other potential mayoral candidates adamantly oppose the stadium deal. She's doing this despite her loud, long, shrilly, and annoying speech when the deal was announced a few weeks ago.

The new site won't work because residents in that area don't support it. The Redskins turned down that site in the early 1990s before building out in Landover. Besides, part of the plan to fund the new stadium is the tax revenue that would be generated from the businesses that would be created near the stadium, which mainly would consist of bars and restaurants.

Hopefully, this wretched plan will fall through and the deal will be saved. Otherwise, watch out if I don't have baseball to cushion the blow from the election.