When baseball’s return to the District became a reality late last year, city officials and MLB execs agreed that RFK Stadium would serve as a temporary home for the Washington Nationals. The donut-shaped stadium, some 40 years old and lacking in many of the amenities that modern team owners now demand, was merely a pit stop on the way to a new, state-of-the-art stadium in Southeast. But given the recent troubles brewing over baseball in the District, might RFK become more than a three-season-stadium? Could it become the Nats’ final home?

In an editorial published today and titled “A Balk on the Ballpark,” the Post broached a topic few thought the newspaper would willingly consider:

…the parties could reconsider their agreement to leave Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium after the next two seasons and devote their time, talents and treasury into making that ballpark and Washington landmark a permanent home for the Nationals.

This admission is surprising because the newspaper has faithfully supported the idea of a new, publicly-funded stadium in Southeast since the idea was proposed more than a year ago, while also admitting that MLB shamelessly extracted concessions from the city during the negotiations.

Why the sudden change of opinion? Has MLB gone one step to far, first alienating one of the city’s biggest baseball boosters — Council-member Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) — and now angering the area’s newspaper of record? Will this embolden stadium opponents?

The Nats at RFK, permanently? Discuss.