Oh joy i`m so happyExpos to remain in Montreal in 2004
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Montcalm
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Expos to remain in Montreal in 2004
Jerry Orbach 1935 2004
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Patrick Degan
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That the Expos were able to actually be competitive for any point during this season while being bounced between two "home" venues and getting little to no support in a poor market speaks volumes for the grit of that club. Moreso, however, it speaks volumes about the sorry state of affairs being presided over by the monopoly system known as Major League Baseball, where power is clearly skewed so totally in favour of the eight huge franchises and where there is the total absence of anybody in the commisioner's office to act "in the best interests of baseball".
The whole situation with the Expos is intolerable. If the intent is to keep that franchise alive, then either MLB should move them to a city capable —and eager— to support a major league club in a better facility than Stad Olympee (one of the worst concrete/steel/turf dumps in the majors) or, as it is MLB which is the actual "owner" of the Montreal Expos at present, facilitate the development of a better TV/media package, work to bring about the construction of a better ballpark, and decently finance the team so that it may be competitive with the rest of the National League. Otherwise, if the Expos have no future, then MLB should simply fold them and put the club and Montreal's baseball fandom out of their misery. Because this present programme of simply maintaining the Expos at starvation level will not only keep the team from ever being competitive in real terms but actually reduces them to an artificial spoiler for championship-bound teams to either have to get around or be derailed. And that could conceivably be interpreted as "fixing" the pennant races.
The whole situation with the Expos is intolerable. If the intent is to keep that franchise alive, then either MLB should move them to a city capable —and eager— to support a major league club in a better facility than Stad Olympee (one of the worst concrete/steel/turf dumps in the majors) or, as it is MLB which is the actual "owner" of the Montreal Expos at present, facilitate the development of a better TV/media package, work to bring about the construction of a better ballpark, and decently finance the team so that it may be competitive with the rest of the National League. Otherwise, if the Expos have no future, then MLB should simply fold them and put the club and Montreal's baseball fandom out of their misery. Because this present programme of simply maintaining the Expos at starvation level will not only keep the team from ever being competitive in real terms but actually reduces them to an artificial spoiler for championship-bound teams to either have to get around or be derailed. And that could conceivably be interpreted as "fixing" the pennant races.
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—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)