Just a few days after the chairman of the D.C. City Council, Linda Cropp, introduced a new plan to build a new baseball stadium adjacent to RFK Stadium, it appears that her plan is dead in the water as she doesn’t have the votes to push the measure through, the Post reports. But she says that Mayor Anthony William’s plan to build a new stadium on South Capitol Street lacks critical votes as well.

With public criticism mounting, it appears that Jim Graham of Ward 1 and Sandy Allen, the outgoing Ward 8 councilmember, hold the key votes and have been targeted by the mayor for intense lobbying.

But Cropp’s sudden shift to have a publicly financed stadium built next to RFK Stadium is still baffling observers. Her plan would save the District some cash, but not much more. And the RFK site, rejected by Jack Kent Cooke many years ago for a Redskins stadium, wouldn’t tie in well to any possible economic redevelopment along the Anacostia River, one of the objectives of the mayor’s plan. The Post’s Michael Wilbon says that Cropp is simply a crock. “And this apparently is vintage Cropp: wake up, see which way the wind is blowing and only then take a side.”

The critical vote comes Tuesday. And we’re sure that there will be more sparks on the horizon. Stay tuned.