DRays Bay: Montreal Expos ownership group positioned for MLB relocation

The recent exhibition games played in Montreal have significantly re-ignited the talk of baseball in that City and Province, to the point where prospective owners have been forced to respond to endless questions about when and how - not if - the Expos will return to Montreal.

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But the latest few questions answered by Mitch Garner, who has a stake in Cirque du Soleil and is set to make an ownership bid along with fellow Billionaire Stephen Bronfman, is what has raised eyebrows and completely changed the course of how MLB may wind up returning to Montreal.

This article describes and analyzes the plan of Garner and Bronfman to privately fund a new stadium. I think MLB is using Montreal as a bargaining chip, like it used Washington for so long. But if a team moves, I would strongly prefer it to be the Rays, for sentimental as well as historical reasons. The author thinks that the franchise would change its name if it moved to Montreal. Could an original AL team really let go of that much historical capital?