Wizards and Caps could be moving to Potomac Yard

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The legacy of Mayor Muriel "Crime for All" Bowser will be losing the Capitals and the Wizards to Virginia and making DC a criminals-friendly city.

Now, she can populate Capital One Arena with drug addicts, vagrants, and persons with mental health problems through his beloved Housing First policy and Section 8 vouchers.

Yep. That is EXACTLY what the area around the Verizon Center/Chinatown was like when I moved to DC in the early 90s. F Street was a pedestrian mall full of crackheads and their dealers.
The restaurants down there are driven by office traffic and the Verizon Center. Office traffic has dropped by 2/3 due to WFH. Now this.

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Anonymous wrote:Awesome! I would finally go. People in this thread must all live in Maryland. Guess what, Virginia exists too!

VA residents have been attending Caps and Wizards games for decades. Sorry. The only people losing if the move were to happen will be MD residents.

Because it is in the middle of the region. Asking people from Gaithersberg or Columbia to maintain their season tickets to get to Potomac Yard 40+ night s year is a lot to ask.

The idea that MD based fans will keep attending Caps games at PY is absurd. Hockey is booming in the MD inner and outer burbs. The likelihood that we would attend a weekday game with our hockey playing children at PY is nil.

I'm a Caps fan living in MD and I'll go to Potomac Yard with my kids, one of whom plays hockey in MoCo.

You need to dial down the drama a few dozen notches.

Yeah isn't it not terrible because you could take the GW Parkway.

GW Parkway is an absolute nightmare right now.

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People who don’t think it’s going to be (more of) a massive clusterfvk don’t drive on GW Pkwy or Rt 1.

Guess Youngkin doesn’t care how it actually impact NoVA since he’ll be long gone.

I mean I do and I think it'll be fine. Traffic is a way of life here.

Says the remote worker who is going to scream their head off when dragged back into the office one day per week.

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Anonymous wrote:Awesome! I would finally go. People in this thread must all live in Maryland. Guess what, Virginia exists too!

VA residents have been attending Caps and Wizards games for decades. Sorry. The only people losing if the move were to happen will be MD residents.

Because it is in the middle of the region. Asking people from Gaithersberg or Columbia to maintain their season tickets to get to Potomac Yard 40+ night s year is a lot to ask.

The idea that MD based fans will keep attending Caps games at PY is absurd. Hockey is booming in the MD inner and outer burbs. The likelihood that we would attend a weekday game with our hockey playing children at PY is nil.

I'm a Caps fan living in MD and I'll go to Potomac Yard with my kids, one of whom plays hockey in MoCo.

You need to dial down the drama a few dozen notches.

Yeah isn't it not terrible because you could take the GW Parkway.

GW Parkway is an absolute nightmare right now.

+1

People who don’t think it’s going to be (more of) a massive clusterfvk don’t drive on GW Pkwy or Rt 1.

Guess Youngkin doesn’t care how it actually impact NoVA since he’ll be long gone.

Agree 100% I guess I will be buying more tickets to Nats games and then perhaps Commanders' games.

They would be wise to address the crime issue around Nats park and Audi.

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Get ready for Allen and Nadeau to take a “you think crime was bad already?” stance and see just how high they can ratchet things up just for laughs.

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If you read the announcement, can't tell if it is real or just a negotiating tactic to get a better deal from DC.

It's a non-binding, MOU that of course still needs lots of approvals from VA government and I would imagine a bunch of other various authorities. Best case, the teams could start playing in 2028....but do these things ever come on-line according to the best case?

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Maybe Bowser should have spent more time keeping her current sports teams in DC happy vs trying to lure the Commanders back to RFK.

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Traffic I think will not be an issue. Solutions are there.

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The legacy of Mayor Muriel "Crime for All" Bowser will be losing the Capitals and the Wizards to Virginia and making DC a criminals-friendly city.

Now, she can populate Capital One Arena with drug addicts, vagrants, and persons with mental health problems through his beloved Housing First policy and Section 8 vouchers.

Yep. That is EXACTLY what the area around the Verizon Center/Chinatown was like when I moved to DC in the early 90s. F Street was a pedestrian mall full of crackheads and their dealers.
The restaurants down there are driven by office traffic and the Verizon Center. Office traffic has dropped by 2/3 due to WFH. Now this.

Well, we all knew that even Connecticut and Wisconsin would run out of room eventually. The policies are drawing vagrants and addicts from across the country, I have heard.

Remember, back then, DC was an extremely cheap place to live, a trade off for the grittiness. Now, insanely overpriced and trending toward dystopian. When Fed leases and commercial leases expire, think how many they can pack in on PERMANENT SUPPORTING HOUSING VOUCHERS, yes, NO plan or requirement to EVER become self sustaining. Doesn't JLG want a safe use drug zone? I'm sure they can fit in some additional illegal weed shops too, it's a big space. Where the $ will come from is the question. The heyday of DC is well in the rearview mirror.

Jealous of Amazon and the VT campus when DC can't even keep kids in school and teach them to read.

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Anonymous wrote:If you read the announcement, can't tell if it is real or just a negotiating tactic to get a better deal from DC.

It's a non-binding, MOU that of course still needs lots of approvals from VA government and I would imagine a bunch of other various authorities. Best case, the teams could start playing in 2028....but do these things ever come on-line according to the best case?

Dude. It's done.

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Anonymous wrote:If you read the announcement, can't tell if it is real or just a negotiating tactic to get a better deal from DC.

It's a non-binding, MOU that of course still needs lots of approvals from VA government and I would imagine a bunch of other various authorities. Best case, the teams could start playing in 2028....but do these things ever come on-line according to the best case?

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

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The legacy of Mayor Muriel "Crime for All" Bowser will be losing the Capitals and the Wizards to Virginia and making DC a criminals-friendly city.

Now, she can populate Capital One Arena with drug addicts, vagrants, and persons with mental health problems through his beloved Housing First policy and Section 8 vouchers.

Yep. That is EXACTLY what the area around the Verizon Center/Chinatown was like when I moved to DC in the early 90s. F Street was a pedestrian mall full of crackheads and their dealers.
The restaurants down there are driven by office traffic and the Verizon Center. Office traffic has dropped by 2/3 due to WFH. Now this.

Yup. RIP Chinatown.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe Bowser should have spent more time keeping her current sports teams in DC happy vs trying to lure the Commanders back to RFK.

Or going to Dubai.

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Anonymous wrote:Traffic I think will not be an issue. Solutions are there.

Amazon is going to drone in spectators?

Traffic is already an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:If you read the announcement, can't tell if it is real or just a negotiating tactic to get a better deal from DC.

It's a non-binding, MOU that of course still needs lots of approvals from VA government and I would imagine a bunch of other various authorities. Best case, the teams could start playing in 2028....but do these things ever come on-line according to the best case?

Dude. It's done.

So, what am I missing? Why are you saying it's a done deal?