I like the idea that the Nats might justifiably bankrupt MASN and then sell their TV rights to another cable sport network. Plain disgusting that the Orioles ownership was ever allowed to claim Washington as its territory.
The Browns/Orioles paid nothing to move to Baltimore, and if the two ballparks are "only" 61 miles apart in 2012, they were not much farther apart in 1953...maybe a smidgen, since Griffith Stadium was a couple of miles north and west of Nats Park. If it is argued that what counts is "practical proximity", meaning the time to drive between Baltimore and Washington, I suspect that driving the old Baltimore-Washington Parkway in 1955 was, maybe, shorter than driving I-95 or the Parkway in today's traffic.