Strange argument for a new baseball stadium

Martin Leclerc’s argument for a new baseball stadium sounds like Credo quia absurdum to me: asked why he believed in God, Tertullian replied “I believe because it’s absurd.” Leclerc lines up all the reasons not to build a stadium, and then says “let’s do it anyway!”

Also, once again, the religion-like evocation of “the return of the Expos.” I know I harp a little on this, but getting a second major league baseball team for Montreal is in no sense “the return of the Expos.” The Expos are history. They are not coming back and a second era of baseball here would have nothing in common with the Expos in many fond memories.

Calling a new team the Expos is like a man marrying a woman who resembles his dead wife and wanting her to answer to the same name. It’s both creepy and pathetic. I can see how boosters somehow think they can evoke the feelings of the past in this way, but I don’t have to like it and I don’t think the public (or, more to the point, the media) should allow itself to be taken in.