Dr.Phibes
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1982 22 MON NL 156 731 647 90 179 32 8 4 43 78 16 75 83 .277 .353 .369 .723
Still a good year. He got his sh!t together and was the greatest Expo of all-time (or at least up there with Vladdy). He will be in the HOF someday.
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1982 22 MON NL 156 731 647 90 179 32 8 4 43 78 16 75 83 .277 .353 .369 .723
Still a good year. He got his sh!t together and was the greatest Expo of all-time (or at least up there with Vladdy). He will be in the HOF someday.
What is the purpose of having that turnout. The Blue Jays voted to contract the Expos, it only opens Montreal and the Expos up to derision from Toronto residents re not supporting them in the first place, the Blue Jays were not playing the Expos in drag Nationals etc
CH1
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99 cent hot dogs in leftfield?
The prime minister also tweeted about it. They had 200 last year, and about 1000 this year. That's quite a turnout. A guy I know organized this, he started expos nation. I really didn't think they could get this many people, but it's crazy. Even the Nike outlet on L'acadie has a bunch of Expos gear.
It would be great to see baseball back in this city in my lifetime, even though I'm pretty pessimistic, what happened today could eventually turn enough heads to actually start the process of something happening.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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The purpose is to spread the word, generate web hits, get on TV and get people talking about how Montreal got screwed by Selig, Loria and the powers-that-be in MLB. Yes the Jays voted to contract the Expos but Toronto is the nearest MLB city to Montreal and probably the majority of ex-Montrealers who have left Quebec in the past 30-odd years have settled in and around Toronto, which gives the group an opportunity to attract more people to this particular game to support the cause. That the Jays also have an expatriate Montrealer (and former Expos employee) as their GM doesn't hurt either. The Expos Nation people were even able to buy their tickets for this game at a special price right off of the Jays' website. So it clearly appears that the Jays are somewhat supportive.
To me there's little point in waiting for the Nationals to visit Toronto. That ship has sailed. But the Rays are a team that could be ripe for relocation. It's just like those latent Quebec Nordiques fans who travelled to Long Island to watch the Isles and Thrashers play a couple of years back. They were targeting teams that were in trouble financially, had no fan support, and which could be candidates for relocation. They wanted to let everyone know that they wanted back in the game. This is no different. If MLB comes back to Montreal, chances are it won't be an expansion team but rather a struggling team like the Rays.
I'd like to see this idea expanded to the West coast. Last time I went to an Expos game was back in 2003 when they played an interleague series in Seattle. Even though it was a mid-week series there was a ton of Expos fans who showed up from BC. Even a couple of weeks back when I went to Seattle to see the Mariners and Cubs play there were a couple of Expos caps and t-shirts among the crowd there. I think if something along the same lines were to be organized they could get a decent turn-out of Expos fans sitting in the bleachers at Safeco Field.
I went to see Tim Raines sign autographs at a minor league game here in Vancouver last week and every other person there seemed to be decked out in Expos gear. He was signing from before the first pitch until the middle of the 8th inning.
IMO any action which exposes Selig and his cronies to ridicule can't be a bad thing. I'm thousands of miles away from Toronto today but I'm still wearing my jersey. It may not help bring baseball back but it can't hurt.
He has always been easier on the Expos than the Canadiens, comes from having low expectations.
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So what's your excuse then.
XPOFAN
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Not even Habsy?
Montreal is on its way to end up being like buffalo. We're filled with socialists and anarchists in this province now. Everyone and anyone with 1/100th of a brain is leaving this place for greener pastures to Ontario and NY and other places. Where there are less politics, and business is more important. My brother has a successful online company with over 30 employees now and would never come back to this dump of a city. Why would anyone subject themselves to a place where people want everything for free but don't have any answers for where things should be paid from, where everyone is corrupt, where you can't run a business in the language of your choice, I could go on and on and on.
I would love to see baseball back in this city because I live here and because I loved the atmosphere of seeing the Big O packed with 50k people and everyone cheering with Youppi. But, realistically, this city and province is the armpit of north america and doesn't necessarily deserve an MLB team.
If Montreal is so bad, and you do tell us that often, why do you stay?
Because the franchise told me many times that it didn't want me as a fan nor that it cared about my feelings (eg constant threats to contract, move, cutting itself off of English TV and abandoning all but Quebec to the Blue Jays) I slowly started to hate and when I hate, I can be relentless.