Baseball is back; or at least it is in Washington, D.C. For a city that has not seen a home run or a fly ball in 33 years, the movement of the Expos from Montreal to the nation's capital is good thing, for both D.C. residents and for a sport that has not seen an overwhelming reaction from fans since the late 1990s.

Hopefully, the move to the nation's capital will be a new start for the team. With a fan base on hand and a city that's run a 30-year campaign to get a major league team back in town, the team has every reason to succeed. Let's face it, since the Expos have been baseball's ship of the damned for nearly a decade.

Although the Expos have found a new home and temporary security, the team's history has been marked by misfortune and bad management. Key players, such as Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson and Larry Walker, went on to be All-Stars on other major league teams. The last time the team was on pace to make a run in the playoffs, Major League Baseball went on strike six weeks before the playoffs would have started.

The Expos played in a concrete abomination of a stadium, complete with a retractable roof that does anything but retract. Their home games have been split between a city of apathetic fans - Montreal - and the land of rabid baseball fanatics: San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Montreal Expos were the worst organization in sports.

Baseball purists won't even be sad to see a formerly promising franchise split town without looking back. Leave Quebec, brave Expos, and never look back at the 31,395 fans that said goodbye at your last home game. You're a 36-year-old franchise headed for a city that's had a 30-year-old itch to root for a home team.

Not even Major League Baseball is capable of bungling the same team twice.