We have worked very hard to accommodate the requests from the Mayor and the Council that changed the terms of the agreement that brought the Montreal Expos to Washington. Because we believe in the future of Baseball in the nation's capital, we have signed a lease that honors the 2004 agreement, while conforming to the emergency legislation that the Council passed last month.

We're optimistic it will be voted in Turin, and baseball and softball will be reinstated, ... We were encouraged.

I think it is very important that we have Major League Baseball in Washington, D.C..

November does not work at all. Not a single one of the 16 baseball federations involved expressed the view that November was a better time.