Much like with starting goalies, if your team is from two cities, it's from no city. A half-measure like this will kill the Rays in Tampa and won't get them going in Montreal. For support, we can look to MLB moving a third of the Expos' home games to San Juan, which was the final killshot in putting Montreal away the first time around, and didn't seem to do much in the long run for San Juan, either.

If the Rays are to move, it should be to Portland or Vancouver. I don't see a future in Montreal where the English population has dropped significantly since the Expos' heyday and the allophone community has taken its place.

Seems like a distant third behind hockey and soccer.

But are baseball players going to bitch about living in Montreal the way hockey players do? That could be a big problem.

Definitely.

Baseball's good ol' boy contingent will despise it. Latin American players less so since many seem to function just fine in the US with rudimentary English.

Much like with starting goalies, if your team is from two cities, it's from no city. A half-measure like this will kill the Rays in Tampa and won't get them going in Montreal. For support, we can look to MLB moving a third of the Expos' home games to San Juan, which was the final killshot in putting Montreal away the first time around, and didn't seem to do much in the long run for San Juan, either.

If the Rays are to move, it should be to Portland or Vancouver. I don't see a future in Montreal where the English population has dropped significantly since the Expos' heyday and the allophone community has taken its place.

Baseball's good ol' boy contingent will despise it. Latin American players less so since many seem to function just fine in the US with rudimentary English.

Worked well last time MLB was there....

All I know is the world has gotten steadily worse since the Expos were no more. Coincidence? Maybe. Who can really say?

I'll wait for Sini or Gary from Evanston to weigh in on the matter before I decide how to feel about this.

Gary from Evanston is dead

who and how?

You should die too.

This guy gets it.

I don't really miss the Expos. Never got into the Montreal thing. I guess it's nostalgia now.

I don't think you'll see a devil ray anywhere in Montreal except maybe the zoo.

I thought Tampa had a plan to build a new stadium in one of the revitalized suburbs there.

Shut your stupid hole. I'll find the your female mother or grandmother and fuck them to death via meat stabbing. Kill them hard and long. Film it..Send it to you. Force you to watch it. Gun.to your head.

Understand?

Like the White Sox....the Expos got shafted by the strike...the fans of Montreal never forgave MLB for it.