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^ Fair comment... the Expos would probably be a hot TV commodity. But it's still a pretty steep uphill battle to land a team.

To my mind it's a bit like Toronto and their decades long pursuit of a NFL team. Toronto is not a football city by any stretch, but the prestige of having a NFL team is the real reason for the chase. Montreal and baseball are sort of the same thing. And the lack of a rabid fanbase makes the whole deal a bit of a risky proposition, at least relative to large US cities where there are probably many times more football and baseball diehards.