Baseball does have some slack here. When they were losing 20 million a year in Montreal, there was some pressure to get rid of it. But as long as they are profitable in Washington, there is less pressure. They've got eight bona fide 450 million offers to buy the team, and those offers aren't going to go away soon.
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