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Originally Posted by elly63
I tend to think they will and think people underestimate how popular they were (at least until the Jays came) and in the early days of the Jays they were seen as the sad sacks not Nos Amours. Most people here weren't even born then to know (present company excluded)  |
I know. I remember. I was there. In the stadium.
A hardcore Expos fan in the Gary Carter/Andre Dawson era. At my peak I went to a dozen games a year at the Big O and I wasn't even living in Greater Montreal.
I cried like a baby (OK I wasn't that old back then, but wasn't a baby anymore) when Rick Monday hit his home run off Steve Rogers.
But I just don't think it adds up right now - especially not the new stadium idea.
That's the big stick in the mud that threatens to derail the whole thing. (I think they can probably pull most everything else off.)
My hunch is that if they ever do come back it's because the team they've bought (Rays?) is in such dire straits that even playing in the Big O for a while, while waiting to see if a pie-in-the-sky new stadium plan materializes, might become surprisingly palatable.