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Jan 12, 2016 at 9:53pm Seth Drakin said:
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Jan 12, 2016 at 6:09pm Benji said:
Montreal Expos to Washington Nationals.
The Expos had to get the hell out of Montreal at the end because the fans were not showing up anymore and it got to the point where the last year, they had to share games with Puerto Rico in an attempt to get people into the building for the games.
There were lots of reasons for that though...
- It all started with the 1994 season being stopped and the WS cancelled. The Expos were the best team in baseball and MLB recognized them as such and gave us a bullshit pennant deal that says "Best Team In Baseball 1994" the first time the Blue Jays came to do an exhibition. The stadium was full then but the strike pissed the fans off.
- After the season, the team was dismantled in a fire-sale, and that wouldn't be the last time, we got used to see our good players develop and leave because the ownership didn't want to spend any money because...
- They didn't get their downtown stadium. They could have stayed in the Big O but people didn't want to go because...
- The ownership group had told the fans the stadium was lousy, ugly, that it was a bad experience overall. If the people trying to get you to go to a show and then told you "You know, the place where we do the show is horrendous. And by the way, our ace outfielder just left for Denver and we got nothing back, enjoy what we had in AAA to replace him"
- Eventually, that local ownership group sold to Jeffrey Loria. Need I go on? I will.
- Loria at first wasn't so bad. Then, he overpriced the media rights and the Expos weren't on radio or TV anymore. Fans lost track of them His own stadium plans didn't work.
- Then the fire-sales resumed.
- Then, that convoluted sale happened where MLB got the Expos from Loria, who bought the Marlins and the owner of the Marlins bought another team.
- Loria took with him the Expos coaches, all the scouting data, and all the team equipment and office furniture. Anything that wasn't bolted down or a player he left with. Expos staff were hosted by the Habs for a week.
- MLB installed two good, honest people in charge of the team: Omar Minaya and Frank Robinson. The team had an uptick, carried by Vladimir Guerrero we were in the running for a playoff spot, while being on life support then....
- MLB refused to pay so that the Expos could do what every other team could, expand the rosters late in the season. It's said that Minaya VERY STRONGLY motherf***ed the MLB Commissioner for it. The team slowly slid in the rankings as fatigue and frustration took over. That was the final nail.
- Then to add insult to injury, Guerrero left.
- MLB kept pissing on the coffin and sent the team to Puerto Rico for half the home games.
With Selig out of office, everybody sees the kind of clusterf*** this was. And now there are talks of bringing a team back, I hope it happens.
Jan 12, 2016 at 9:53pm Seth Drakin said:
Benji Avatar
Jan 12, 2016 at 6:09pm Benji said:
Montreal Expos to Washington Nationals.
The Expos had to get the hell out of Montreal at the end because the fans were not showing up anymore and it got to the point where the last year, they had to share games with Puerto Rico in an attempt to get people into the building for the games.
There were lots of reasons for that though...
- It all started with the 1994 season being stopped and the WS cancelled. The Expos were the best team in baseball and MLB recognized them as such and gave us a bullshit pennant deal that says "Best Team In Baseball 1994" the first time the Blue Jays came to do an exhibition. The stadium was full then but the strike pissed the fans off.
- After the season, the team was dismantled in a fire-sale, and that wouldn't be the last time, we got used to see our good players develop and leave because the ownership didn't want to spend any money because...
- They didn't get their downtown stadium. They could have stayed in the Big O but people didn't want to go because...
- The ownership group had told the fans the stadium was lousy, ugly, that it was a bad experience overall. If the people trying to get you to go to a show and then told you "You know, the place where we do the show is horrendous. And by the way, our ace outfielder just left for Denver and we got nothing back, enjoy what we had in AAA to replace him"
- Eventually, that local ownership group sold to Jeffrey Loria. Need I go on? I will.
- Loria at first wasn't so bad. Then, he overpriced the media rights and the Expos weren't on radio or TV anymore. Fans lost track of them His own stadium plans didn't work.
- Then the fire-sales resumed.
- Then, that convoluted sale happened where MLB got the Expos from Loria, who bought the Marlins and the owner of the Marlins bought another team.
- Loria took with him the Expos coaches, all the scouting data, and all the team equipment and office furniture. Anything that wasn't bolted down or a player he left with. Expos staff were hosted by the Habs for a week.
- MLB installed two good, honest people in charge of the team: Omar Minaya and Frank Robinson. The team had an uptick, carried by Vladimir Guerrero we were in the running for a playoff spot, while being on life support then....
- MLB refused to pay so that the Expos could do what every other team could, expand the rosters late in the season. It's said that Minaya VERY STRONGLY motherf***ed the MLB Commissioner for it. The team slowly slid in the rankings as fatigue and frustration took over. That was the final nail.
- Then to add insult to injury, Guerrero left.
- MLB kept pissing on the coffin and sent the team to Puerto Rico for half the home games.
With Selig out of office, everybody sees the kind of clusterf*** this was. And now there are talks of bringing a team back, I hope it happens.
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