July 24, 2003 [LINK]
More bad news
I got an e-mail from the Arlington County Board with a link to the letter Chairman Paul Ferguson sent to VBSA President Michael Frey. (See excerpt quoted on July 21.) On the same day I received a reply to the letter I sent to the MLB Office of the Commissioner regarding the relocation of the Expos to Washington. This sentence says it all:
Currently there is no timetable for a decision to be made.
In other words, forget about the earlier goal of deciding by the All Star Game, or the more recent goal of deciding by the end of this season. Does "no timetable" mean the Expos are just going to rot in Purgatory for eternity? No offense to Montreal, but no one seriously believes that city is willing support a baseball team, so how much more doubt and anxiety are those players going to have to endure?