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The Kalb Report is a series of panel discussions at the National Press Club, and this one featured three key players-one from the "Nati's," one from the Post, and one from NPR-all pro baseball.
First came an hour of crap that included everything from the team's chances of winning games to the steroid problem to a huge lack of confidence that their stadium will ever be built.
About the steroids- Don't we have enough drugs in SE without adding a bunch of steroid-addled baseball players with arms grown to the size of an elephant's trunk with help from steroids?
After a ful hour and a "break" for the broadcasters(maybe a refusal to air the Q&A?), they finally got to audience questions and got grilled.
Several DC activists asked hard questions, and got answers that beat around the bush or were outright patronizing. .
When one questioner asked about gentrification, they stated that replacing "low quality" housing with "better" housing was a BENEFIT of the stadium! Left unsaid was that replacing "low quality" people with "better" people is also considered a benefit and objective of the stadium.
When I asked if gay men displaced from the clubs should go to P st Beach or Malcolm X park, their answer was to simply call on the next questioner. Well, I think they answered my question-we are supposed to just disappear!