Hey…while I’m working on the blog, I thought I’d register my happiness at the news that it looks like DC will get baseball after all. Hoorah!
So, I won’t be there for the initial excitement. But, that’s okay. The Expos’ first year in DC will probably be hard. Plus, the team is currently in LAST place in the NL East…dead last and DC just go together. It’s perfect.
I’m still not too keen on the name the Washington Expos, as I’ve mentioned before. And, I hear that those who bought the Senators way back in 1971 own those naming rights and will not sell them. So, maybe we should go with the Washington Grays, the name of DC’s former negro league team.
All of my advocating for a team will be for naught if they change the team colors to teal and puce or try to rename the Expos something like the “Sting” or the “Raptors.” Yes…those are WNBA/NBA names. I actually don’t hate some of the new-fangled baseball names like the Devil Rays or the Diamondbacks. Couldn’t care less about the teams. But the names aren’t that bad.
What I really hope is that the team keeps its official website in English and in French, just to piss off all those anti-”Old Europe” types. That would be icing on the cake.
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It seems only fitting that our national capital would be home to a team participating in our national pasttime. Let’s just hope the new DC team will draw more than 3,000 fans per game as was the case in Montreal.