Nationals still in limbo
WASHINGTON (AP) – For a team that has suspended much of its operations, the Washington Nationals were a brisk source of commerce Thursday – at least in sporting good stores. Caps in pink, red and blue and other Nationals merchandise accounted for an above-average take of about $3,000 at City Sports, where customers hedged their bets over whether their haul might someday be valuable.
It was a day of mixed feelings for baseball fans in the nation’s capital as they digested the complicated financial permutations of the week’s news.
For three months, there has been the promise that they would have a major league team to call their own next spring for the first time since 1971. Now the dream is on hold following the District of Columbia Council’s demand that taxpayers pay no more than half the cost of a new ballpark.