Update On Monumental’s Move To Virginia
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 26 January 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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From 01/26 Hour 1:
The Sports Junkies break down Ted Leonsis' plan to move the Caps/Wiz to Alexandria, Virginia.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back on a football Friday driven by your local |
| 0:03.2 | hana dealer later in the program. We'll get into |
| 0:07.0 | Chiefs Ravens and 49ers Lions as we have the AFC and NFC championship |
| 0:12.4 | games this weekend. |
| 0:15.0 | But yesterday, fans in this area have received a letter |
| 0:20.0 | from Ted Leonsis, the owner of the Wizards, the Capitals, the Mystics, monumental sports. |
| 0:27.0 | And he outlined the reasons why the Wizards and capitals will be potentially moving to Potomac Yards in Alexandria. |
| 0:38.8 | That at least is the hope. |
| 0:40.1 | Biddy mentioned the busker outside his office that was rumored to be bugging the crap out of him. |
| 0:46.4 | The kids playing music? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm pretty sure that was not in his letter unless there was an addendum to the letter that I didn't see. |
| 0:53.0 | He did not mention that. |
| 0:55.0 | Um, look, there are, there's opposition and there are groups that have been formed, |
| 1:02.0 | one called Stop the Arena. |
| 1:04.1 | I was just walking yesterday into the little cafeteria area we have |
| 1:08.8 | and it had Fox 5 on and there was, |
| 1:11.3 | I don't know if he was a politician or just somebody who lived in |
| 1:13.8 | Alexandria and he was saying all this talk that this actually helps the |
| 1:20.2 | economy the local economy it's bogus because people are going to have to move |
| 1:23.6 | out and he's completely he said something about taxes it was above my head that the |
| 1:27.6 | taxes would be going into monumental and not out to the the benefits of the residents. |
| 1:33.5 | Bottom line is there's opposition. |
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