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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Caps will be fine. It's a good franchise. What they lose in MoCo and NW DC fans attending games, they'll make up with NoVa fans. I'm in MoCo near the DC line. We go to Caps game all the time. I cannot imagine trekking all the way to Potomac Yards for a weeknight game during rush hour. Not happening. But the Virginia fans will be there.

The Wizards are going to suffer. It's been a losing franchise forever with little hope of changing anytime soon. Most of their fan base - such as it is - is DC based. They are not going to Potomac Yards. You need a winning team for people to go through the inconveinience of going to Potomac Yards. It'll be a pretty empty arena for the foreseeable future when it comes to the Wizards.

The real loser, of course, is DC. This is hundreds of millions in lost revenue. All those restaurants in Gallery Place are going to die. It will be impossible to sell a condo in that neighborhood. It was the arena that turned everything around downtown 30 years ago. It will revert back to the crack era so fast it'll make your head spin. The future for downtown DC is bleak.

I blame Bowser and the City Council, of course. Absolute idiots. But the real villain is the USAO. When you decline to prosecute nearly 70 percent of all arrests, there are consequences. Leonsis said it himself. Most of his employees have been attacked and harassed just going to work. No wants that kind of stress in their day to day life. These are all repeat offenders well known to the police. The average murder suspect in DC has 11 felonies - pretty impressive for a teen or someone in their twenties. And USAO does nothing about these violent people.

So people and businesses are leaving DC. Until DC gets serious about putting criminals in prison, the city will continue to decline.     [/quote]

Plenty of people from Loudoun and western Fairfax travel to DC for Nationals BASEBALL(!) games. Plenty via Metro too (shock). Are MD people from Bethesda and CC too provincial to cross the Potomac? I’m sure a few are but C’mon. If you’re a fan, the move to a neighboring DC community won’t be a big deal.

BTW the commute from western Fairfax to Baltimore via car at rush hour is not that much longer than getting to DC for baseball games. [/quote]

Why do you think people in Bethesda and CC pay so much for rather basic houses?  It's because they value time over space.

Alexandria and National Harbor are the furthest places from there in the region.  It's a full loop around the beltway to get there and back.  I'd rather drive to Baltimore.[/quote]

If you are BCC or SS resident, the Baltimore stadiums, FedEx or RFK, Nats Park, and Audi Field are all closer than PY.  My purchases of tickets will reflect that reality.

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If you haven't noticed by now, this region doesn't revolve around MoCo. Virginia is the economic engine powering the DMV. If that wasn't evident by the Tysons development, new Metro lines and Amazon, hopefully you realize it now.[/quote]

It is strange. You’d think that MD would have more economic development on par with VA but it just doesn’t. I’ve never seen the upside to living there especially Montgomery County. PG (where I worked for many years) and Howard Counties seem like better places to invest.

Come to think of it — was PG County even considered? Doubtful it would solve the issue of getting BCC types to games there though. [/quote]

PG is always considered in these deals.  It has the same problems in regards to Arlington.[/quote]

Did PG County present an offer?  That’s the issue: it sounds like Alexandria and Youngkin presented an offer to Leonsis and no one else did. No other jurisdiction can claim it should have been there if they didn’t give an offer (and DC’s wasn’t really an offer at all). [/quote]

Way back in the mists of time, like 20 years ago, PG County had a sports stadium. They decided they didn't want that. Why would they bid on a new one?[/quote]

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