Jarry Park (Montreal Expos) was never built as a MLB ballpark, but despite being held together with spit and glue, it was outdoors, close to the field, smallish/initmate, real grass,...in short, a great place to take in an afternoon game.
Montreal's Olympic stadium, which replaced it, was a cavernous concrete toilet bowl, designed for...something other than baseball. It was indoors (or mostly so, so little sun), very far from the field, gigantic, fake turf...in short, a terrible place to take in an afternoon game.
After awhile, most fans agreed that the stadium was a terrible venue for baseball. His royal rectumness, Jeff Loria, and his wicked stepson David Samson did a bait and switch (trying to get Montreal/Quebec to pony up zillions for a new, purpose built stadium downtown, which they knew would not happen given Montreal/Quebec's precarious finances at the time), and then initiated a fire sale of the Expos roster, all while diluting the local ownership by one scam or another.
Those fuckers destroyed the Expos, and later bamboozled people in Florida out of hundreds of millions.
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