Barry: I Will Fight Baseball: Former Mayor Marion Barry, poised to retake his old Anacostia ward seat on the D.C. City Council, said even if the current councilmembers ink a deal with Major League Baseball to publicly finance a new stadium, he will do what he can to foil the plan when he officially takes office next year. Barry says that with the incoming council there are enough anti-baseball votes to repeal any new business tax or plan to build the stadium on public land.

Barry says a stadium doesn’t make economic sense, telling the W.Times:

Think about it. … You come to a baseball game, you pay an admissions tax, you buy some beer and a hot dog. We get some money from that, but it’s not gong to cover the millions we are going to spend [on the ballpark]. … There are not many economic benefits.

Redskins’ WMATA Woes: WMATA is facing some intense criticism for its post-Redskins game train service, which agitated and angered football fans, who were stranded on trains for more than an hour. “We owe our customers a very, very sincere apology,” a WMATA official tells the Post.

Afternoon Violence: As kids were walking home from school, two 23-year-old men were shot yesterday afternoon sitting in their car in a Woodbridge, Va., subdivision. The attack left them in serious condition, the Post reports.

Hotel Talks Resume: Contract talks between a number D.C. hotels and the unions that represent their employees have resumed, the AP, via WTOP, reports. (SFist on the hotel strike in San Francisco.)