Baseball in DC? (3 cents)

An editorial in the Post this morning says that, because of the ongoing dispute between Comcast and Peter Angeles, the owner of the Orioles, there will again be no Nats games telecast on Comcast, and only about 40 on non-cable tv stations.

So here we are, a major league city, with a team finally, but only 25% of the games televised, no owner, no settled arrangement on a new stadium and only two more years to go at RFK, and - believe it or not - a claim by a mid-west company that it owns the name Washington Nationals and that our team can no longer sell any merchandise identifying the team by name.

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The result will be diminished support for the team, failure on the field, continuing arguing with MLB about the sale of the team, with political repercussions for DC government, and a diminution of value for the franchise. Then, it will be said that Washington is not a major league team after all, the team will move elsewhere, and Peter Angelos will get is way.