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TheCountofMonteCristo said:
it ultimately all came to that, if they had decent crowds and not just on opening day, or on 1 dollar hot dog night, they would still have survived. You can blame ownership, MLB, where the stadium was located, the fact no one cared until June 24 nor after September 1 etc but at the end of the day, if 30000 showed up game in game out, the team would still be in Montreal.
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It's a chicken and egg thing. If they had treated the fans decently, they would have come out. Fire sales and penny pinching erodes even the best of fan bases. When the owner cared (Bronfman), the fans came out. Not saying they were at the Dodgers attendance levels, but for much of their existence they where upper half of the league.
 
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Tiger's Wood said:
Oswalt signs with Texas. I don't like the fit at all -- will probably get bombed over there. What do you think?
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It'll be interesting to see. Outdoors in the Texas heat can be brutal. I would still suspect he will help that team. They have to be the odds on favorite in the AL.
 
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Tiger's Wood said:
Oswalt signs with Texas. I don't like the fit at all -- will probably get bombed over there. What do you think?
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I think he would have been better suited to face the weaker NL lineups - but he will get lots of run support, so he might be ok
when do they expect him to be ready? End of June?
 
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Johan Santana with a no-hitter manufactured thanks to an erroneous call on a ball hit along the third base line, which the replay showed was a hit.
 
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Brett Lawrie using his baseball skills and physical abilities to GTFO of the Eaton Centre today in record time, as shots rang out and some people were killed: STORY HERE.
 
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XPOFAN said:
First one in Mets 50 year history...even though it wasn't really one.
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Real enough....
an umpire's bad judgement once impacted a would-be perfect game

just the baseball gods trying to even things out

(but I'm in favor of robot umpires...)
 
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Len Berman ‏@LenBermanSports
St. Louis paper used asterisk in #Mets no-hitter headline because of bad call. How many asterisks did paper use for Mark McGwire's homers* ?
 
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Nice to see the '81 Expos get a mention at the Als game tonight. I got a chance to meet The Hawk recently and he was a real nice guy. Always fun to see the Spaceman.
 
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No one mentioned the perfect game from two nights ago. Again, this was a close call on a hit down the first base line.
 
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Dr.Phibes said:
Nice to see the '81 Expos get a mention at the Als game tonight. I got a chance to meet The Hawk recently and he was a real nice guy. Always fun to see the Spaceman.
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This is the weekend the guys from the 1981 team are in town
 
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