This is tearing my heart in pieces. As I watch the Marlins celebrating a World Series, all that comes to my mind is that could have legitimately been my Spos celebrating instead. When I went to that game in Montreal 1 month before the season was over, my Spos were actually tied and I believe 1 pct point ahead of Marlins for the wildcard. That could have been Vlady and Vidro jumping on the mound celebrating the world series instead.
I fu ckin hate Jeffery Loria who was the owner of the Expos and now owns the Marlins. As I see him and his as shole son on tv, I think of all the times I sat in the same section with him, 1 row behind him of over 25 expo games and talked to them throughout the game about the Spos and our great future ahead in Montreal, and now I see this jerk Loria being interviewed on tv while winning a world series. This is making me puke.
This really could have been my Spos and should have been my Spos. We would have drawn 58,000 fans for every game and this city would have been going nuts about baseball again. It came down to who had the best record in September to see who would go to the playoffs, and UNFORTUNATELY, it was The Marlins, where it easily could have been my Montreal Expos.
This bastard Loria ruined us and I hate him so much. He laughed at our face here in Montreal when he bought the Expos and said he was building a new stadium. I hope he dies, that fu ckin as shole.. And now his team are the world champions..
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But I think the saddest part of it all is that tonight marks the end of baseball, and officially, the end of summer and the start of winter.
That's right folks, baseball is over, summer is over, and it's 21 degrees here in Montreal now, and we are setting the clocks back 1 hr tonight, which will make it dark now at 5 pm..
. I will miss baseball for sure. See you again in March baseball..
Good night boys..
I fu ckin hate Jeffery Loria who was the owner of the Expos and now owns the Marlins. As I see him and his as shole son on tv, I think of all the times I sat in the same section with him, 1 row behind him of over 25 expo games and talked to them throughout the game about the Spos and our great future ahead in Montreal, and now I see this jerk Loria being interviewed on tv while winning a world series. This is making me puke.
This bastard Loria ruined us and I hate him so much. He laughed at our face here in Montreal when he bought the Expos and said he was building a new stadium. I hope he dies, that fu ckin as shole.. And now his team are the world champions..
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But I think the saddest part of it all is that tonight marks the end of baseball, and officially, the end of summer and the start of winter.
Good night boys..
Sick...if I remember right without Loria and the Expos would have already been playing in DC! No one else was going to come to their rescue so even though he was temporary and no one wanted to get him a stadium, you got a good 4 years of baseball out of him and who knows maybe another couple the way baseball is moving on this thing.
My suggestion to MLB and Montreal is to create a "legacy" series in the future, no matter where the team goes. Get in say a simple 6 or 9 game homestand in Montreal every year even if the team is based elsewhere. The city deserves it and it would mean at least still some interest for a team coming out of Montreal. Put in the AAA team in Montreal too, but dammit get them to play outside of that oversized train station
Seriously though I could see it working. I mean if you go to a Phoenix Coyotes game you would be amazed at how many people from Winnipeg and Manitoba come in Jets shirts and still talk about how they feel it's their team on the ice. Get to work on it Sick, who knows you could still get a chance to see the boys come to town and if its only a few games after hockey season is done maybe there will be good crowds. What do you think?
My suggestion to MLB and Montreal is to create a "legacy" series in the future, no matter where the team goes. Get in say a simple 6 or 9 game homestand in Montreal every year even if the team is based elsewhere. The city deserves it and it would mean at least still some interest for a team coming out of Montreal. Put in the AAA team in Montreal too, but dammit get them to play outside of that oversized train station
Seriously though I could see it working. I mean if you go to a Phoenix Coyotes game you would be amazed at how many people from Winnipeg and Manitoba come in Jets shirts and still talk about how they feel it's their team on the ice. Get to work on it Sick, who knows you could still get a chance to see the boys come to town and if its only a few games after hockey season is done maybe there will be good crowds. What do you think?
Wildbill, i don't even want to think of that now. For some reason, I really do believe the Spos will NEVER leave Montreal. This is a huge city of 4 million. It has the 13th biggest market in MLB. Why would they MLB ever leave here for? They'd be nuts! There are still alot of fans here left, and believe me when i say this.. Montreal is a baseball town. They love winners, and I saw it with my own eyes here when in early september, they started to sell tickets like crazy here for the wildcard race and everyone honking their cars. All we need is a winning product on the field and watch the fans come out. We already proved Montreal is a baseball town as in the mid 80's, we were drawing 2.6 million every year in attendance. That's an avg of 35,000 a game..
Montreal loves a winner, and if we are a winning team next year, i don't see why MLB would wanna move. It'd be silly. This is a big town. We can easily draw 2.5 million fans a year here.
Montreal loves a winner, and if we are a winning team next year, i don't see why MLB would wanna move. It'd be silly. This is a big town. We can easily draw 2.5 million fans a year here.
