Afternoon Baseball

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If MLB and D.C. truly are close to do a deal, then it's about time. The Expos/Nats have been left dangling in the wind for too many offseasons, and while RFK was nice to bring back as a sentimental piece and an improvement over the damaged cement bowl that was Olympic Stadium, it stopped being a good football stadium 15 years ago and it's doubtful whether it was ever a good baseball stadium.

The sooner work can begin on a replacement, triggering work on a sale to a real, legitimate owner whose interests and the Nats' interests actually align, the sooner that baseball will have moved beyond an underreported, underrealized dark period in its history -- a period where competition was among 29 teams, with the 30th the patsy of the collective, a puppet whose strings were pulled only when within a whisker of breaking through to the light.