Les Expos de Montréal Nostalgia Repository

http://www.lessignets.com/signetsdiane/calendrier/images/avril/6/Staub_Rusty_71LR400ds506566.jpg

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/sports/baseball/08expos.html

http://thedailysomething.com/2010-articles/june/the-last-expo.html

I'd pick either Nick Johnson or Vlad, seeing as they should be productive DH's for several more years. If Vlad can have a few more good years and cinch his HOF status, it'd be nice to see him enter the hall as an Expo (~ 15 years after the team ceased to exist).

Either Lilly or someone totally random like Carroll or Harris or Downs.

I'd bet money on Vlad going into the HOF as an Angel.

http://jonahkeri.com/2010/08/16/triumph-and-tragedy-94-expos/

This program left me in tears.

That looks awesome. And Keri's article is great.

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/info-1994expos.html

http://www.flipflopflyin.com/flipflopflyball/info-2004expos.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ibLDHfdJhU

Wezen-Ball
The Expos Invite You to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=13839

http://jonahkeri.com/2011/06/22/new-montreal-expos-book/
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http://jonahkeri.com/2011/06/22/new-montreal-expos-book/

http://thestar.blogs.com/baseball/2011/07/griffin-dave-van-horne-recalls-his-32-years-in-montreal.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=CEIDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48&img=1&zoom=3&hl=en&sig=ACfU3U1SaVwRf3mKmHZgmwfQwE0x8Yfs8A&w=575

https://twitter.com/#!/Montreal_Expos

happy birthday to le grand chat

What do you experts think? Any chance of seeing MLB baseball in Montréal again?

http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Jack+Todd+baseball+dream+reborn/8145572/story.html

no

ne pas.

able was i ere i saw 'elb'

So not gonna happen.

Some of the reasons in that article (e.g. social media, revenue sharing, TV money) would apply to any potential new baseball city, not just Montreal. Also this --

Right now I’d put the chances that Montreal will get another major-league team somewhere between bandicoot battery and the likelihood that the ex-Expos (a.k.a. the Washington Nationals — will win the World Series.

-- seems to show that the reporter hasn't actually watched baseball or the Nationals in past five years or so.

;_;

Keepin the rêve alive

Jonah Keri @jonahkeri
600 people signed up so far for Expos fans reunion at TOR v TB, Rogers Centre July 20. To join, bluejays.com Sections 101/102/103.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/1eea47212321918bac1bbd4b68fd9056/tumblr_mq9e7cWIHc1qzniimo1_1280.png

able was i ere i saw 'elb', eh

74-40 GODDAMNIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQh7inZ9mtc

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/09/09/the-jays-and-mets-to-play-two-exhibition-games-in-montreal-next-spring

road trip

not unless Youppi stays away.

YES!

Now i'm anxious it won't draw.

now featuring a reunion of the '94 expos

http://www.montrealbaseballproject.com/english/gala

yes, by the time I get my new passport it could be March; let's go to Montreal.

I could do this.

btw those exhibition dates are March 28 & 29

Got my tickets to one of the games (I think Friday). Any ILXors going? Maybe grab an ILX pack? Are they even still available? Got mine so long ago...

oh and re:

YES!

Now i'm anxious it won't draw.

― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 23:34 (1 month ago)

"Over 50,000 have been sold for the games in March," the president of the Montreal Baseball Project told CJAD 800 News.

Cromartie said they've also sold about 28,000 tickets for next March's gala celebrating the 20th anniversary of the 1994 Expos.

http://www.cjad.com/CJADLocalNews/entry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10604899

well I guess we should decide before (US) Thanksgiving, then

Yeah I'm glad it is such a success, but the anxiety was justified.

what's the o roof situation these days?

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One of my first elementary school field trips after arriving in North America involved an Expos game at Jarry Park. It was a cold, windy day, and sitting in those bleachers through nine innings didn't let you forget it. Jarry struck me as a desolate and forlorn place, though in hindsight it was much more lovable than the Big O.

I became more of a hockey fan in those years, but the Expos were a part of the landscape, and there was something about that logo...

The first month of grade seven in '79 coincided with the epic pennant race against the Pirates. I had a classmate who'd bring in a radio to class and turn it on during class breaks to catch us up on the games. Raines made his debut that September, all of 19 years old.

I think this must make me one of ilx's resident geezers.

I remember my Grade 2 class in a non-Quebec French immersion school being interrupted to watch game 5 of the Expos-Dodgers NLCS on a TV they wheeled into the auditorium. Rick Monday hit the winning home run right around the time classes were scheduled to end, IIRC, and they kicked us out. I ran home (2 blocks, unaccompanied age 7) dreaming of the Expos rallying to win in the bottom of the ninth. Dawson was due up, at least. Got home, ran to the TV and found the game: they'd gotten 2 quick outs, then 2 walks, forcing a pitching change. I sat down just as the first pitch was delivered, ground ball up the middle, easy out, game over.

The next year we took a Via train through the Rockies and I spent most of the time in the dome car carefully drawing baseball players (out of overlapping ovals) and then colouring the numbers, stripes and "elb" logo of the Expos home uniform.

Followed them as closely as I could from afar for years after that, listened to Dave Van Horne do the radio broadcasts, watched them on French CBC, bought a Rotisserie baseball stats guide with Andres Galarraga on the cover.

Haven't watched a regular season baseball game since 1994.

Cool story, Plasmon.

God I loved that VIA dome car. Did the transcontinental trip a few times, on way to various summer jobs out West. I remember one time, on my way to Prince Rupert and the Queen Charlotte Islands, I had my eyes glued on the massive Skeena River --half a mile across, boiling and swirling emerald currents marching towards the Pacific-- when this enormous thing erupted from the water, missile-like, and then fell back into it, a creature so large that in the first instant I took it to be some sort of a marine mammal, a member of the whale family, maybe... but as we rolled onward and I processed the image in my mind I realized, no, that was a fish. Sure enough, as a local sitting near me confirmed, the Chinook salmon were running. He figured the one we saw was easily sixty pounds.

A cool kickstarter project concerning nos z'amours

it'd be kind of poetically fitting if the filmmaker just scammed all the Kickstarter backers and just ran off to Miami with the money.

@si_vault
Get excited, Montreal -- it's Expos Day at the SI Vault! I'll get up as many pics as I can. pic.twitter.com/j2eQY6QFUK

https://twitter.com/si_vault

Jonah Keri's book comes out on the 25th.

http://www.amazon.com/Up-Away-Business-Ill-fated-Unforgettable/dp/0307361357

I guess no one is joining Will M. for the exhib games?

oh god... the only time i could get off work & my gf could get off work to see each other was this weekend/the following week, so i am flying out to vancouver the day of the first game... meaning... none of us are going to the exhibition games!!!! i am upset :( i was really hoping to see a colon vs ohka matchup!

Finished it ... it was about what I expected -- an easy read that brought back a lot of memories. It feels like he barely scratched the surface on a lot of things, he interviewed about one hundred people and could probably fill up another book just with stories and oral histories if he wanted.

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this makes me sad.

allo

Now, just because a group of investors have met MLB’s conditions, it does not mean baseball’s return to Montreal is imminent. Hardly. Commissioner Rob Manfred has said he wants the Rays and Athletics to get new ballparks before considering expansion, plus MLB would surely open up the bidding to multiple cities.

http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/investors-have-reportedly-met-mlbs-conditions-to-bring-a-team-back-to-montreal/

Bleh, we already have enough taxes and debt like it is, and no way a stadium is built without some government funding. I love baseball, of course, and would welcome an expansion team, but that scam has been going for too long.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8RqHFPXUAE9QhE.jpg

makeshift bullpens at the O

Such a brutal stadium.

i agree, it is a masterpiece of brutalism

i don't think it's really any worse than the other 70s stadiums like three rivers/riverfront/the vet. which admittedly isn't saying much

Now, just because a group of investors have met MLB’s conditions, it does not mean baseball’s return to Montreal is imminent.

no, it means manfred has a francophone stick with which to beat the local oakland and tampa governments

un baton.

le bâton

lol

French government has been trying to reform that accent out of existence since 2008. You could say it is a bit like the Expos.

id say i liked the view from my cheap seats better than i ever enjoyed the view from the cheap seats at the skydome.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/rob-manfreds-three-expansion-cities

I guess it's not universally accepted that manfred's just yapping to get Oakland and TB their taxpayer parks

i'm sure that's part of it, but . . . the rockies paid a $95m expansion fee in 1992. the new las vegas team in the nhl just paid $500m. a new baseball team would be $1b at least, i would think, of straight-up free money? even split 30 ways that's a lot

i don't think it'll happen before those two teams get their parks though. really, they need to be relocated before anyone even thinks about expansion, but that isn't coming from a $$ standpoint.

i agree with AGon though, if the goal of mexico expansion is to open up the entire country's market and/or diplomatic baseball reasons, it doesn't need to be a logistical nightmare like mexico city. monterrey is at least a hell of a lot closer to the rest of the league and shorter than denver by several thousand feet.

Jered Weaver in a brutalist bullpen would think his fastball is roughly 110 mph.

Montreal can't afford a new ballpark/billionaire's scam. Montreal can't afford a new ballpark/billionaire's scam. Montreal can't afford a new ballpark/billionaire's scam.

otm. isn't carey price enough?

http://phildellio.tripod.com/raines.jpg

Oh man.

<3

Posnanski pointed out the other day how incredibly close they were during their Expos years:

Games played in Montreal:

Tim Raines: 1,452
Andre Dawson: 1,443

WAR in Montreal:

Tim Raines: 48.5
Andre Dawson: 48.1

This video is worth checking out. Stick around until the end, the last throw they show is unbelievable.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQwfvNtAFyk

I remember when Ellis Valentine got hit in the face with a pitch and wore this helmet. Always thought this was a pretty cool card.

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Lot of big name players in that Valentine clip. I believe that is Dale Murphy in that one against the Braves.

jacksonville expos cap circa 1985-90. nice

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Pitching another monster game through 5 (59 strikes, 19 balls!).

Somewhat related: going to the Canadian HOF for the first time on Wednesday. I hope there's more than a Fergie Jenkins jersey and a couple of Joey Votto's bats...

For a long time I just assumed Tim Raines was canadian because he got inducted there.

Would love to learn why LB Pearson is inducted if you can report for me.

My guess would be he had a hand in getting Montreal a team--he was PM up till '68? I think there are a bunch of non-Canadian Jays and Expos in there.

"Canada’s 14th Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson, was a fine all-around athlete who participated in a variety of sports, including hockey, football, rugby, basketball and lacrosse. But baseball was Pearson’s true passion. He suited up alongside his brother, Vaughan, with the Guelph Maple Leafs of the Ontario Intercounty Baseball League and attended games at Toronto’s famed Hanlan’s Point stadium as a youngster.

Later in life, the Nobel Peace Prize winner served as an honorary board member with the Montreal Expos. After his death, the Pearson Cup, named in his honour, was presented to the winner of an annual exhibition game between the Toronto Blue Jays and Montreal Expos from 1978 to 1986."

So...he liked baseball seems to be the reason.

Go, Expos!

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/would-the-expos-have-won-the-1994-world-series/

In a word--three words--no, probably not (says Neil Paine).

Not sure if it will last--attendance is understandably sporadic--but I've been doing a couple of volunteer hours per week at the Canadian Baseball HOF. (As I mentioned when I moved to St. Mary's, a five-minute walk from my house.) I was scanning old Expos photos this morning, as they digitize their collections. Chris Nabholz, Bob Natal, Graig Nettles (had to check the spelling), Al Newman, Reid Nichols, Steve Nicosia, Otis Nixon; I'll have to mention that they need a file for Tom Nieto.

awesome

In 1958, a 30 yo Tommy Lasorda was the International league's most valuable pitcher, thanks to his 18-6 record, his 2.50 ERA and 1.16 WHIP. He was also an assistant to manager Clay Bryant (left) and the team's traveling secretary. pic.twitter.com/ExS6csoCIR

— The Montreal Royals (@Royals_46season) January 8, 2021

Not sure if it will last--attendance is understandably sporadic--but I've been doing a couple of volunteer hours per week at the Canadian Baseball HOF. (As I mentioned when I moved to St. Mary's, a five-minute walk from my house.) I was scanning old Expos photos this morning, as they digitize their collections. Chris Nabholz, Bob Natal, Graig Nettles (had to check the spelling), Al Newman, Reid Nichols, Steve Nicosia, Otis Nixon; I'll have to mention that they need a file for Tom Nieto.

― clemenza, Thursday, July 30, 2020 12:55 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

awesome

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clemenza and mookieproof otm.

Random memory of Harry Caray absolutely butchering the pronunciation of "Nicosia."

Back in the spring, but thus far it's been a lot less glamorous than I envisioned a year ago. I thought I'd be out clubbing with Carlos Delgado and John Olerud; mostly I've been weed-whacking around park benches.