>I suppose that the prospect of major league baseball coming to Washington depends on one of you failing (or being perceived to fail) and moving.

There's no guarantee you'll have a team over there. If I judge by the sudden drop in the last two months of the choice of having Washington to host it and how it changed, I'd wait for the final confirmation first.

As for what has failed so far, I'll let the ongoing status to decide about it. First, there's a legal action against a former owner about having manipulating the system to force all that to arrive. So, if that is as per the previous owners together are claiming in court, then a lot of things could change.