City: Expos Should Come Back to Montreal

Montreal Olympic Stadium

Source: City: Expos Should Come Back to Montreal

Build it and it will come, which is a famous line from a baseball movie. Montreal needs a modern baseball park that can support the team and allow for the team to be popular there. And then the people of Montreal and the Province of Quebec need to support this franchise. With a management group with the resources and commitment to winning and baseball can be successful in Montreal and always be there.

But even if that all happens and that is still and if and a major if, Major League Baseball with the way it is currently set up with twenty-nine franchises in America, would probably not be the right home for the Expos. Not saying that they should be a AAA club. But playing at least half of their games every year in another country and taking long road trips to play just their division games in the National league or American League like they use to, might not work again.

If Canada wants professional baseball again, let alone major league baseball, than their big cities including Montreal needs to step up. And say “we are ready for professional baseball again and perhaps even Major League Baseball”. And build their own Canadian League with MLB being part of that and expanding in Canada. Eight to ten clubs in Canada with two divisions and a national series.

If that were to work, then MLB might be able to expand in America again to support the new CBL and you could see an MLB-CBL merger and create a real North American Continental Series to decide the pro-club championship of North American baseball. But putting the Expos or whatever the new Montreal club would be called back in the National League or moving them to the American League long-term, I don’t believe would work again.

Canada needs to step up with major league caliber ballparks in their big cities. Like Montreal, Ottawa, Hamilton, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and perhaps even in Toronto the Blue Jays long-term and put the Blue Jays in this new major Canadian league to be able to compete long-term with America when it comes to Major League Baseball. And the way pro baseball would succeed again in Canada and be there indefinitely.

 

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CBS Sports: MLB 1992- MLB World Series-Game 6- Toronto Blue Jays @ Atlanta Braves: Full Game

Source:CBS Sports– Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Dave Winfield.

“Toronto Blue Jays 4 at Atlanta Braves 3, F/11 — Dave Winfield picked the perfect moment for his first extra-base hit in twelve career World Series games. With the score tied in the 11th and the Blue Jays one win away from Canada’s first-ever World Series title, Winfield burned Charlie Leibrandt for a double down the left field line to put Toronto up 4-2. The Braves mounted a comeback, but ultimately fell short, 4-3.”

From MLB Vault

This was a great World Series with neither team able to dominate the other, for the most part.

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CBS Sports: MLB 1993-World Series-Game 6-Philadelphia Phillies @ Toronto Blue Jays: Joe Carter’s HR

Source:Dominick Clafin– “Touch em all Joe, you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life!” From Canadian sportscaster Tom Cheek, who called the 1993 MLB World Series for Canada.

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“This is the highlight video of the 1993 World Series game 6 where joe carter hit the game winning homer to win their second straight World Series.”

From Dominick Clafin

“Here it is! The epic World Series-ending Game 6 matchup between the Toronto Blue Jays, and the Philadelphia Phillies.

With the Blue Jays down 6-5 in the bottom of the 9th, Joe Carter hits a World Series-winning 3-Run Homerun! One of the most incredible moments in baseball history!

Series MVP: Paul Molitor

Music: “Hearts of Courage” by Two Steps From Hell.”

Source:Sky Domed– “Touch em all Joe, you’ll never hit a bigger home run in your life!” From Canadian sportscaster Tom Cheek, who called the 1993 MLB World Series for Canada.

From Sky Domed

This is what game 6 of this World Series was all about: the Phillies playing for their season and just for the opportunity to get to game 7 to have another opportunity to win the 1993 World Series. The Blues Jays, playing to defend their 1993 MLB World Series Championship. And win this World Series so they don’t have to play a game 7 and risk losing this World Series. And that is what made this game so great. Because the Phillies had to win it and did their best to do so.

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TSN: MLB 1997- Canada Day- Montreal Expos vs Toronto Blue Jays: Highlights

Source:Global Sportsline Toronto– Canada Day at Skydome in Toronto, Ontario.

“Montreal Expos vs Toronto Blue Jays on Canada Day. Rob Sinclair reporting for Global Sportsline in Toronto.

From Global Sportsline Toronto

The only reasons why Montreal doesn’t currently have a MLB franchise a Major League Baseball Franchise, is because of management and facility. A management team committed to winning that will spend the resources to make that happen, but will also spend them wisely, but also a ballpark that will give them the revenue to support their club, where people will want to go to watch baseball, but also have a good affordable time, as well as a fan base that is committed to the team in Montreal whether that is the Montreal Expos, or whatever new name a possible new Montreal MLB franchise would be called and Major League Baseball could succeed in Montreal in the future.

You get the right management group, organizational structure, right ballpark and MLB baseball could succeed in Montreal, because the reason why the Expos no longer exist and why Montreal no longer has an MLB franchise eight years later, is not because of the market as far as size and wealth, but because of the lack of support this market gave their franchise and how cheaply they were run.

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