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Originally Posted by elly63
I feel your pain, I was a huge fan too, I used to score the games, remember those scoring books. I remember the big trade: Tim Foli, Mike Jorgensen and Ken Singleton for legend Rusty Staub that heralded the end of the beginning. The attitude turnaround that began with Charlie Fox and was accelerated by Dick Williams. And then Blue Monday, the home run that essentially killed the Expos and was the beginning of the end.
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I am too young to remember the Singleton/Staub era.
I began paying attention around 1979 when they started to come close to making the playoffs fairly consistently.
After the early 80s team peaked (with no cigar) I remained fairly interested through the latter part of the 80s, but not so obsessively. I did generally go to a few games a year when I was in the country.
I got really interested in them again in the first half of the 90s (DeShields/Grissom/Alou/Martinez/Guerrero) but I was out of the country for some of it. When I was here I'd make some trips to the Big O though.
When they cancelled the 1994 season though I completely tuned out the Expos and MLB as well.
I am always shocked when I am reminded that the Expos actually played in Montreal for 10 years after the cancelled season. For me they were basically gone around 1994-95.