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wilkerson_rulz-06
05-28-2006, 10:33 AM
Think about it, with the Canadian dollar riding, Americans will be more interested in coming here, settling a team.
Unless they accept that they need to know how to speak french, (most don't).
I think that when people say "Montreal only likes hockey" or that "Montreal doesn't like baseball" that it isn't true.
Sure, we love hockey, I adore it, but a lot of people (unlike msot people think) like baseball here in Montreal, the management for the organasation was crap, if they had treated their fans to better management, better stadium, beter players they'd be thriving in the NL EAST right now.
No.
Now, the Nationals are in the NL EAST, replacing the Expos.
It'd be cool to see the Jays and the Expos in the same division, Toronto doesn't deserve to be in the AMERICAN league.
What to you think?
runningshoes
05-28-2006, 10:37 AM
If you were in your twenties would you want to learn a new language?
wilkerson_rulz-06
05-28-2006, 10:39 AM
If you were in your twenties would you want to learn a new language?
I guess not, but Quebec is "legally" bilingual, but, in the minds of quebecers, I don't think they think that it is bilingual.
runningshoes
05-28-2006, 10:45 AM
I was at the embassy here last week and I had to laugh because everything there in English is also in French, but Filipinos don't know French.
skeletor
05-29-2006, 02:44 AM
Think about it, with the Canadian dollar riding, Americans will be more interested in coming here, settling a team.
Unless they accept that they need to know how to speak french, (most don't).
I think that when people say "Montreal only likes hockey" or that "Montreal doesn't like baseball" that it isn't true.
Sure, we love hockey, I adore it, but a lot of people (unlike msot people think) like baseball here in Montreal, the management for the organasation was crap, if they had treated their fans to better management, better stadium, beter players they'd be thriving in the NL EAST right now.
No.
Now, the Nationals are in the NL EAST, replacing the Expos.
It'd be cool to see the Jays and the Expos in the same division, Toronto doesn't deserve to be in the AMERICAN league.
What to you think?
as much as the city and fans got the SHAFT by both the ownership and
Uncle Bud & MLB, don't think MLB will ever put another team back
in Montreal..not even an AAA one as well..Of course, I think the city
needs another shot..like Washington, ( who had two shots ) but
Montreal doesn't carry the clout of Washington...
yup, it would be cool to see the Jays & the 'new' Expos in the same
division.....some interesting games, no less...
:clapping
Augustin_"Gus"
05-29-2006, 04:09 AM
I guess not, but Quebec is "legally" bilingual, but, in the minds of quebecers, I don't think they think that it is bilingual.
Technically, that's not true. Québec as only one official language, and it is french.
New Brunswick is officially bilingual, Québec is not.
Yankeebiscuitfan
05-29-2006, 01:28 PM
Technically, that's not true. Québec as only one official language, and it is french.
New Brunswick is officially bilingual, Québec is not.
So why are you writing in English then??? :D :p :waving
wilkerson_rulz-06
05-30-2006, 04:27 PM
Technically, that's not true. Québec as only one official language, and it is french.
New Brunswick is officially bilingual, Québec is not.
Sorry, I thought it was.
Augustin_"Gus"
05-30-2006, 04:35 PM
You'll copy the entire text of Bill 22 (1974) 10 times. I want it on my desk tommorow morning. :p
You don't have to be sorry. I wouldn't call that a very well known fact.
wilkerson_rulz-06
05-31-2006, 06:04 PM
You'll copy the entire text of Bill 22 (1974) 10 times. I want it on my desk tommorow morning. :p
You don't have to be sorry. I wouldn't call that a very well known fact.
T...T...Ten T...T...Imes!!!
I...I...I forgot, I'mm, outta t...town tomorrow, y...yeah, that's it!!:D
cup2006sensrule
06-03-2006, 12:41 PM
MLB baseball won't be coming back to Montreal for at least 25-30 years. Probably never but their won't even be anyone that would even concieve of a team there until then.
Still Montreal could support a team, just not with terrible ownership, in the worst baseball park imaginable right after the greatest team in franchise history sees their World Series chance lost to a work stoppage.
Montreal could easily draw 2-2.5 million to a really nice outdoor park if they had a decent team.
parrish15
10-24-2006, 01:49 AM
Think about it, with the Canadian dollar riding, Americans will be more interested in coming here, settling a team.
Unless they accept that they need to know how to speak french, (most don't).
I think that when people say "Montreal only likes hockey" or that "Montreal doesn't like baseball" that it isn't true.
Sure, we love hockey, I adore it, but a lot of people (unlike msot people think) like baseball here in Montreal, the management for the organasation was crap, if they had treated their fans to better management, better stadium, beter players they'd be thriving in the NL EAST right now.
No.
Now, the Nationals are in the NL EAST, replacing the Expos.
It'd be cool to see the Jays and the Expos in the same division, Toronto doesn't deserve to be in the AMERICAN league.
What to you think?
8,000 Expo fans create more excitement then 40,000 Jays fans but when they were damaged & sabotaged by MLB where did the move to.....????
Capital of the u.s:laugh
Seems funny does it not??
Alomar93
10-24-2006, 11:46 AM
I kinda feel sorry for Montreal and Vancouver at times because they don't have owners willing to commit to those markets. In Toronto there would be people lined up if a team ever went on sale. No one was there for the expos when the fans needed them to be, same goes for the Habs which are owned by an american I think (or part owned I dunno).
wilkerson_rulz-06
10-24-2006, 01:43 PM
8,000 Expo fans create more excitement then 40,000 Jays fans but when they were damaged & sabotaged by MLB where did the move to.....????
Capital of the u.s:laugh
Seems funny does it not??
We don't need trolls on this board.
cutchemist42
01-06-2007, 12:37 PM
I dunno about Montreal ever again. Is your government the type to commit to a new stadium? Does the city consider the leaving of the Expos a blow to Montreal's claim to being a big time city?
BaseballHistorian
01-10-2007, 05:03 PM
People tend to forget that Montreal's Expos - in an antiseptic, white elephant of a stadium - were among the better draws in the NL during the team's 'Golden Age' c.1979-1983.
I've no doubt in my mind that with good ownership and a new stadium that Montreal could have, and still can support a Major League baseball team.