OT: MLB Thread
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wiseguy1
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Somebody is making money from the sales of their merchandise. Its crazy how you see Expos stuff on almost every online sports merchandise website.
XPOFAN
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Dave Stubbs @Dave_Stubbs
Bittersweet... “@ShiDavidi: #BlueJays expected to announce tomorrow plans for 2 spring games vs #Mets at Montreal's Big O next year"
Personally, I don't think it will do well unless a bunch of Blue Jay and Mets fans show up, but I could be wrong. With the right marketing and making it an event, maybe it could take off.
Bittersweet... “@ShiDavidi: #BlueJays expected to announce tomorrow plans for 2 spring games vs #Mets at Montreal's Big O next year"
Personally, I don't think it will do well unless a bunch of Blue Jay and Mets fans show up, but I could be wrong. With the right marketing and making it an event, maybe it could take off.
ColinM
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And its been announced:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-set-to-play-exhibition-games-in-montreal/
I know many hardcore expo fans were not Blue Jay fans and might resent the Blue Jays trying to build a coast to coast following, but if having an MLB team in Montreal is to ever be anything other than a pipedream then the former fans should show up.
Habs53
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I think its far from a pipe dream anymore. Next 4 or 5 years. Maybe sooner.. there is a few Florida teams needing a new home sooner than later.
Yeah if ExpoFan doesn't show up, MLB will use it as an excuse to say, see city still doesn't give a crap.
CH1
The Artist Formerly Known as chiggins.
if you're gonna fantasize, might as well go big
True
Hell Pedro Martinez says he thinks they won the WS that year so why not Montreal why not now.
Hell Pedro Martinez says he thinks they won the WS that year so why not Montreal why not now.
Habs53
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They dont pay enough where he works to go
Wife will buy me preseason Blue Jay tickets for my birthday since she can never figure out what to buy me. I don't care if it's preseason, I love the atmosphere of watching a baseball game and I'll take what I can get, even if it's only preason. I know Count will remind us that the BJs voted in favor of contraction for the Expos but that's not going to stop me !!
if you want the team back, then you have to go even though the Blue Jays were no friend to the Expos.
XPOFAN
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Well I'm sure we would have.
given the Expos' history of losing when it mattered like 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, hell even 1993 when they had to win and Sean Berry had someone at 3rd with less than two outs and did nothing, they never won when they had to, so I am not convinced they wouldn't have choked away either the division or the post season.
XPOFAN
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Don't be negative.
wiseguy1
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One billion dollars minimum to get a team back. New stadium + fees for purchasing a franchise etc.
Anybody in Quebec have that kind of money to put up? Not sure even a consortium including Bell Media and the Quebec government would be willing to put up that kind of dough.