How tedious – another “revive the Expos”
An entrepreneur is reviving the moribund idea to create a major league baseball team in Montreal.
Journalists shouldn’t be flimflammed into calling this “bringing back the Expos” because the Expos are dead, and phrasing it that way is an appeal to boomers who have fond memories of fifty‑cent hot dogs in the stands at Jarry Park.
Whatever could happen in this instance would mean the waste of vast sums of public money to put up a team for which it was proven long ago there is not enough of an audience. Nostalgia is not enough.
Please let this just be a random bit on a media site. I hope people are smart enough not to let this idea snowball.
bob 14:34 on 2025-12-05 Permalink
True fact: If you built a ball park at the old Blue Bonnets, a game would choke the Decarie Expressway so completely that according to quantum mechanics cars would actually start to move *backwards in time*.
Kate 15:15 on 2025-12-05 Permalink
bob, you’ve made me start a file of “quotes for 2027 calendar”
Kevin 17:32 on 2025-12-05 Permalink
Anyone who makes a decision based on a social media poll made by a sports booster deserves to lose every penny.
Kate 17:56 on 2025-12-05 Permalink
The file is off to a good start!
Mozai 20:29 on 2025-12-05 Permalink
Weird, I was downtown today minding my own business when someone with a cameraman stuck a microphone at me asked “What do you think of the Expos?” I told them to get that damned camera out of my face.