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When the team left, the thinking of most of those journalists was: "good riddance, we don't need a team of multi-millionnaire athletes who don't want to learn French and who play a boring American game nobody cares about anyway."
1-Rodney Scott: He had 1702 P.A. from 1979-81 with an ops+ of 67!!! Rob Neyer pointed out in his "Blunders" book that the Expos win the East in '79-'80 if they just bat Scott 8th.
2-Strike of '81, Who knows what would have happened if they played the full year. Maybe Dawson wins the MVP, Raines breaks the alltime stolen base record, They never play the Dodgers in the NLCS, Rick Monday never happens.
3-Le Stade Olympique. A dump of epic proportions, possibly the worst place ever to watch a major league game. Almost made the city go bankrupt and halted any chance for having a nice ballpark.
4-Singleton trade: Expos get a broken down McNally, Orioles get an MVP candidate. Imagine Singleton on those 79-81 Expos.
5-Strike of 94: final deathnail in the coffin.
The peroid of 79-84 was the crucial time period for this franchise and they easily could have gone to 2 or 3 World Series and may have won 2 which could have built the fan base and built a loyality to the team.
The number of frustrating things for an Expos fan is amazing when you think about it. But I'd say a big early one was giving up English Canada in the late 70's to the Jays - a super-stupid move (Montreal's hockey team has a major fan base outside of Quebec so they could've held it). By the mid-80's when cable channels started appearing the Expos still had a fair amount of support but threw it away with poor marketing (I tried cheering them on but fewer and fewer games were on TV and pre-internet it was hard to follow otherwise as there were no radio stations covering the Expos by then outside of Quebec afaik).
A team that had an identity, a big potential fan base (Quebec plus east coast easily, mix in chunks of Ontario and with good marketing a chunk of Canada), and it just tossed away everything.
That just seems like a really weird comparison. Different sport altogether, and Ryan signed a six year deal, the same amount of time any MLB rookie is bound to a team.
Did the Expos try to sign any of their young players in the mid 90s to long-term deals? The Indians were doing that, but I don't think too many other small/mid sized market teams were.
How bout don't trade Randy Johnson for two months of Mark Langston. Can you imagine the Unit and Pedro in the same rotation? Who would stop that team?
I almost lost control of my bladder. Damn.
Not to mention New England, especially Vermont, where the Expos had a farm club. There were a lot of "Soxpos" fans back in the day...
Great point, my bad for not bringing up the Randy Johnson trade.
It seems like so many teams make late season trades for division titles that never work out and end up backfiring.
Like the Frank Viola trade with Mets.
The upper management of the Expos was pretty old school when it came to miscegenation back then...
Johnson trade - to be fair, I don't think they could have kept Johnson anyway..
Johnson trade - to be fair, I don't think they could have kept Johnson anyway..
Yea, but if they had him from 1990-1997, his reserve clause years, he would have been on some really good Expos teams. If he's on the '93 Expos, we could have had an all-Canada World Series.
I remember hearing a story about Larry Robinson being excited when hearing about the Langston deal and his emotion was surprising considering he was in the Habs dressing room and they had just lost the Stanley Cup to Calgary.
An all-Canada World Series would've garnered lousy Nielsen ratings in the States...
I know most of the reason the Mets picked Steve Chilcott over Reggie Jackson was because Reggie had a white girlfriend. But in retrospect it doesn't really make any sense because Reggie is of mixed race and I think the girl was half Mexican. It just shows some of the stupidity of the time period.
Realistically the Mets could have easily had an outfield of Jackson, Singleton and Otis (basically the A.L. all star outfield of the mid-late 70's) with a pitching staff of Seaver, Ryan, Koosman and Matlack, & McGraw in the pen with Whitey Herzog as their manager.
In some parallel universe The New York Mets are the dominate team from the 1970's winning 3 world series, 4 pennants, and 6 division titles and my parallel-counterpart has fond memories of his adolescent years.
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