Agreed on the naming rights. It would have to be huge money if it were me.
I hope the Nats can get an affidavit from CSN and a potential Fox Sports DC claiming they'd bid $100 million+
Yeah, I'd get it if it were $10-15 mil per season. But $3-4 mil, which is what I remember being thrown about when it was rumored during the RFK era, is a pittance compared to everything else in an MLB club financial wise.
And as amanuel mentioned, they usually are deals for decades. I'm sorry, but I don't think it's worth $45 mil for a couple decades of naming the park. Granted, that's $45 mil of free money, but there's something to be said for not having a commercial name. Verizon Center actually flows nicely, but like I mentioned, Jiffy Lubed Up Pavillion is another example. As rich as the Lerner's are, and as little as $3 mil is for an MLB team annually, it's just not worth it compared with the prestige of National's Park. That sounds right, we've had half a decade to get used to it, and it would be a way Angelos gets over on us, with the O's having kept the naming rights. Nationals Park it is, and Nationals Park it shall always be. In the history of baseball in DC, we have never once played in a commercially named park in over a century, let's not start now. /end rant and off topic diatribe.