Does Adam Eidinger even watch baseball?

Even as a registered member of the D.C. Statehood Green Party (forgive me, fellow realists, but when your vote is worthless it's fun to play around with it) I must protest our shadow Rep candidate's off-putting hipster attire. Sure, his distressed jeans and Elvis Costello glasses are pretty deck, but not the right thing to wear when crashing the Expos' re-naming event:

"Charlie Brotman (left), a lobbyist who helped bring baseball back to Washington, tries to remove Adam Eidinger, who ran this year for D.C. Shadow representative through the D.C. Statehood Green Party, from the stage during Monday's announcement of the team's new name (the Nationals)." (Roll Call)

But in all seriousness, baseball is a bad choice for DC. Regardless of whether the new stadium receives public funding, it's a bad economic deal for people in the District. A Cato Institute-affiliated economist notes that "wages and employment in the food services, hospitality and recreational industries -- the alleged big winners from stadiums -- are either no larger or substantially smaller once a stadium is operating." This, he writes, is because spending inside the stadium is substituted for spending outside the stadium. I've eaten enough eight-dollar hot dogs at Fenway to believe that. My urban development planner roommate, meanwhile, makes unsubstantiated but confident claims that stadium jobs are lower-paying than similar jobs outside.

All this for a National League team, *sigh*