acc to the other thread, no!
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
maaaaaan :( :( :( picked the worst time to leave montreal for a week! had my tickets and everything. at least i'll have mlbtv when i get back.
― Sam Malone, no relation (Will M.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
What's normally the year's most exciting live baseball in Montreal? Or does one have to go to Quebec City?
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:10 (ten years ago) link
The Quebec City team played one game here last year and something over a thousand people showed up, I think... other than that, not really any live baseball. Just wish everyone would get their head out of the clouds re: an MLB team and just get a minor league team. Vancouver has one, Ottawa is getting one, ugh.
If you're in Montreal and for some reason really hurting for live baseball I can send you my beer league's schedule, I guess!
― Sam Malone, no relation (Will M.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
i was looking for the thread where i was going to bring a new york-penn league team to montréal and rrrobyn was going to do all the graphic art and stuff but i couldn't find it and found this instead:
Stade Olympique in Montreal, Quebec
― mookieproof, Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:33 (ten years ago) link
I am so on board with having a minor league team here. I used to go to evening games in Vancouver at nat bailey stadium, which is next to a big park, so the air is fresh and just, well, it was pretty sweet.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 27 March 2014 02:46 (ten years ago) link
Jonah Keri's Expos book is out this week.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 27 March 2014 10:12 (ten years ago) link
i mean i would want a AA team but i'm not picky, i would probably watch a couple games a week of short-A ball (but i am usre the tickets would be massively overpriced -- last time i went to a vermont lake monsters game, i am pretty sure it was under $5!!!)
― Sam Malone, no relation (Will M.), Thursday, 27 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
(vs vanoucver canadians which was around $20!!!)
Quite excited for tonight. I'll be at the game tomorrow.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 28 March 2014 21:25 (ten years ago) link
ergh, many dodgers cap and jersey at the stade.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 29 March 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
rude
― mookieproof, Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:15 (ten years ago) link
a fan fell from the bleachers, that's a 16 meters drop. yes meters. hope he's fine. :(
a massive bunch of montrealers singing the olé chant for a toronto team was kinda special.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 29 March 2014 02:25 (ten years ago) link
I caught just a bit of today's game. I take it Pedro wasn't there? (I had to check to see if he was even on the '94 team...)
http://wpmedia.sports.nationalpost.com/2014/03/mets_blue_jays_baseball.jpg?w=620&h=387
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 March 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
Keri interview on book
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=23189
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 1 April 2014 10:58 (ten years ago) link
his book tour includes smoked meat at a NYC deli
http://jonahkeri.com/2014/02/14/book-tour/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 12:00 (ten years ago) link
WDYLL during the summer of 1983 (during your first Tiger Stadium visit)?
https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc1/t1.0-9/5249_113425568633_7952656_n.jpg
― Andy K, Thursday, 10 April 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
May 2, 1987:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4UclkYmr7g
― Andy K, Friday, 2 May 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XyiYhSd.jpg
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 24 June 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2044800323/the-perfect-storm-documentary-on-the-94-montreal-e
― Andy K, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:13 (nine years ago) link
"In the past year I have independently Produced three Sport's Documentary's."
Hmm.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
anyone read Keri's book?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:18 (nine years ago) link
I just discovered that an acquaintance of mine (someone I met at parties a few times and played online games with) is the son of Joel Youngblood. He's the first player to hit with two different cities, in two games, with two different teams ON THE SAME DAY, the pitchers were Jenkins and Carlton. JENKINS AND CARLTON. He did for it for the Mets and Expos. You guys must know this story by heart already. I am going to try to meet him and report back to ILB.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 4 August 2014 11:12 (nine years ago) link
yeah i remember that trade
Joel was a total babe btw
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 4 August 2014 14:12 (nine years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/aug/11/1994-major-league-baseball-strike-montreal-expos
Wetteland, who would go on to close for the 1996 World Series champion Yankees, told the Guardian: It’s never been reconciled in my heart. It’s never been reconciled. In 1994 we had a product on the field that would win a World Series … we understood that that was the beginning of the end in ‘94, and that was tough. I just can’t get over it, we could have had many world championships here because we were all young. But that’s life.
It’s never been reconciled in my heart. It’s never been reconciled. In 1994 we had a product on the field that would win a World Series … we understood that that was the beginning of the end in ‘94, and that was tough. I just can’t get over it, we could have had many world championships here because we were all young. But that’s life.
― Andy K, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 15:18 (nine years ago) link
Kinda confused by expos fan (and expos themselves) talking of that championship like a sure thing, how many times the best record in baseball translated into actual championships? The White Sox were also very good, many other teams were. The narrative of 'we should have won the World Series and then things would have been okay' is ridiculous wishful thinking at worst, a romantic story at best. I am not denying the strike had no effect on the expos whatsoever, but there was plenty of factors and one of them was the pure apathy Montreal public towards the sport of baseball.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
Agree, and thought so at the time. I'm not convinced they would have even won their division. They were six games up on Atlanta when the strike shut down the season; the Braves were four years into their dynasty, playing .600 baseball, and it was only the year before when they staged one of the great divisional comebacks ever. On the other hand, the Expos had been getting better as the year went on: .565 in April, then .556/.704/.692/.818.
They had about 50 games to play--I wouldn't have been shocked if the Braves had caught them. But at worst, I think they had a (brand-new) wild card locked up, especially as they only had to stay ahead of Cincinnati or Houston, and Bagwell had just gone down for the season.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 23:26 (nine years ago) link
Got a cheap used copy of the Keri book over the weekend--will probably read that next after Perlstein's book.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 00:26 (nine years ago) link
Tim Koewn wrote an article about the '94 season being romanticized as whatever you wanted it to be. The Expos would have won the WS, Gwynn would have hit .400, somebody would have hit 62 homers -- as time passes, each of these becomes more of a certainty in the eyes of many people, and you can't really disagree because the season was never finished.
But yeah, winning the WS obviously wasn't a sure thing, but they would have made the playoffs and possibly kicked off a successful run not unlike the '90's Indians or the post '08 Brewers (i.e. two "smaller market" franchises that were transformed by finally getting over the hump and making the playoffs after two decades of losing). Maybe more guys would have stayed with the Expos in '95 and '96 if they'd had a deep playoff run in '94.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 08:44 (nine years ago) link
And I really need to get the Keri book.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 08:45 (nine years ago) link
Jays-Reds exhibtion pair at the Big O next spring
http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/2014/8/12/5996667/blue-jays-montreal-olympic-stadium-reds
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 14:52 (nine years ago) link
Anyone planning on coming to the Reds- Jays exhibition game?
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 1 November 2014 21:55 (nine years ago) link
maaayyyybe
― mookieproof, Saturday, 1 November 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
the what?!
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 2 November 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link
oh right - the link from two months ago.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 2 November 2014 01:30 (nine years ago) link
Kinda wish the Quebec chapter of SABR would actually do something about the exhibition game, like a gallery of photos or something to present the history of Quebec baseball to visitors but it seems the whole chapter has been inactive for a while now, internal fights and lack of interest will kill any small organization.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 2 November 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
@jonahkeriCanada! "The Perfect Storm", amazing new @seanmenard documentary on '94 Expos, airs tonight 8:30 pm on TSN1. (I'm lightly involved) Tune in!
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 March 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
Final of the Concacaf Champions League at the Big O right now, there is player called Martinez on the pitch and another called Guerrero on the bench.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 30 April 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
I was at that game, I gotta say the expos games had nothing on that crowd... holy fuck
But also for the expos game, they had the "getting people in the doors" game on LOCK (compared to this)... for concacaf I think I was outside for ~35 mins just to get in
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Thursday, 30 April 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
http://globalnews.ca/news/2002980/baseball-in-montreal-mayor-denis-coderre-mlb-commissioner-to-meet/?hootPostID=3eb37d12087edc74a154c527df9bfb75
Baseball in Montreal? Mayor Denis Coderre, MLB commissioner to meet
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 17 May 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
1969 program:
http://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1330/5100890119_2cdc70417d_b.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 22:50 (eight years ago) link
I want to know what a sandwich spécial is!
― Bouncy Castlevania (Will M.), Wednesday, 5 August 2015 23:10 (eight years ago) link
Ham, cheese, and little pieces of John Boccabella.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 23:13 (eight years ago) link
I finally started reading "Up Up and Away" as a spring training present to myself (I bought it a few months ago and finally started reading it this week). I'm about sixty pages in and it's perfect pre-season reading, full of amusing stories and cool factoids (like the English to Quebecois French translation of baseball terms). No bitterness, just a "this was fun while it lasted" vibe throughout (maybe the bitterness comes later though).
I had no idea that MLB awarded a franchise to MTL before there was an ownership group in place! The business of baseball has really changed since the late 60's ...
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 08:18 (eight years ago) link
this is one of my favorite pages in the internet: http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/French_Baseball_Glossary
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 16:46 (eight years ago) link
Got my tickets for Saturday @ the Big O, currently getting tickets for Friday as well. It was all sorts of fun last year.
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:27 (eight years ago) link
Knuckleball - la balle papillon
Butterfly ball?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 19:41 (eight years ago) link
that's my favourite one! i end up just reading that page idly a few times per season.
― Worth Taking from Little Kid (Will M.), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 20:11 (eight years ago) link
i'm picturing the Quebec language police coming down on the field and telling the players they have to communicate entirely en francais during the game.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 March 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link