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Baseball back in DC! w00t!

i'm from Quebec and i agree that it's not a great thing, but i'm glad they move to DC.

What killed Montreal's Expos was indeed the strike.

People got like we finally created a team to get in the world series and the pull a strike!! What's the point in being a fan?

It's a shame since the Expos have been on for 30 years, but then again, it's been a money pit with these players been paid millions to sleep in the out field.
 
makisushi said:
Wilbon writes for the Washington Post. The Washington Grays is also the pick for the mayor.
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I can't imagine them using the name Grays. That would bring up memories of the confederacy.
 
I live in baltimore so I am not thrilled by this. I really wish that the Orioles would have switched to national league andd let the DC team go and take their american spot. This way we would not have to deal with the yankees.
:p
I do think the name of the team shoud be the Washington Senators tho. Keep it Real.
 
ijimk said:
I live in baltimore so I am not thrilled by this. I really wish that the Orioles would have switched to national league andd let the DC team go and take their american spot. This way we would not have to deal with the yankees.
:p
I do think the name of the team shoud be the Washington Senators tho. Keep it Real.
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With a 10% "entertainment" tax in order to finance the DC ball park, I think that we won't see the fan friendly Camden Yards allowing of outside food and drink.
 
it's sad for canada. the expos were truly supported here in canada up until the players strike. also sad when some of our largest cities can't find ownership to pay for the high salaries of the players. there are too many teams in the major leagues now, too many subpar teams.

people here lost interest because the owners couldn't pay to have big talent come to the teams.

and it's been said already but the strike really made a lot of people lose interest in the sport here. and hockey is our game, once the hockey strike ends it'll be back to montreal's real love - les canadiens.
 
Koodauw said:
Is that were the name originally comes from?
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The Greys were once a negro league team. When he speaks of the confederecy he's speaking of the time of segregation, not the civil war.
 
ijimk said:
I live in baltimore so I am not thrilled by this. I really wish that the Orioles would have switched to national league andd let the DC team go and take their american spot. This way we would not have to deal with the yankees.
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I don't think the Yankees are the O's only problem...lol
 
ijimk said:
I live in baltimore so I am not thrilled by this. I really wish that the Orioles would have switched to national league andd let the DC team go and take their american spot. This way we would not have to deal with the yankees.
:p
I do think the name of the team shoud be the Washington Senators tho. Keep it Real.
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Hey, what's all this about running away from the Yankees? Forget that crap, let's try fielding a team that can comptete with the Yanks and Bosox!
Angelos cracked open the wallet for a few good players this year, but that's a small, temporary patch on what has been a decade of ownership ignorance, horrendous trades (Glenn Davis? Albert Belle??), and the complete collapse of a once-great farm system.

I think the arrival of DC baseball will ultimately be a great thing for Baltimore. Fewer fans in the seats for a year or two will force Angelos to go and get some pitching to go with Tejada and Lopez. Maybe then Baltimore fans will start coming to games and we won't have as many ticket brokers selling seats to people in Philly, NY, and Boston. Sometimes I wonder who the home team is at the Yard.
Of course, it'd be nice to see "Baltimore" on the away jerseys once in a while, too. They're not the Mid-Atlantic Marketing Region Orioles!
 
MacNut said:
Why are the Expo fans upset, they were never at the games to support the team, I didn't even know they had fans. I know it helps for a team to be competitive but a team can only succeed if the fans are in it too.
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That's the thing. Don't trust any media outlet you may read about the Expos move. It's mostly the city of Montreal putting on a big PR show to demonstrate how (allegedly) the fans will miss the Expos to rub it into the provincial government's face. Expos management had asked the government for assistance to keep the team in the city (i.e. to help pay the player's salary) and were denied. It's just a continuation of the "blame the government" campaign they've been going on about. Sportswriters obviously are calling it a great loss, because most of them are losing Olympic Stadium priviledges and will be stuck covering the Alouettes (a much better gig IMHO) or the Impact.

Most Montreal baseball fans have great Expos memories from the days of Gary Carter, Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, and so on; I think that's what people mourn.

Also, Montreal sports fans are a very vicious and fickle bunch. They'll turn on ya in a heartbeat if you suck for too long. Just ask the Montreal Canadians. The minute they go on a four game losing streak, fans cry for heads to roll.
 
makisushi said:
I don't the Yankees are the O's only problem...lol
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The Problem is not the Yankees or the AL East at all. It is all about how the O's just don't compete because the team sucks. The O's can and have beat the Yankees and Red Sox, they just can't beat the other teams in the league.
 
superfunkomatic said:
people here lost interest because the owners couldn't pay to have big talent come to the teams.
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Ownership wouldn't even pay to keep the big name talent they had! Montreal had a great farm system. tons of talent.

The real issue facing baseball in DC is finding an owner.
 
Koodauw said:
Ownership wouldn't even pay to keep the big name talent they had! Montreal had a great farm system. tons of talent.

The real issue facing baseball in DC is finding an owner.
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Yeah, a owner dumb enough to pay the MLB league/owners twice what they paid to bailout the Expos.
 
The old Washington Senators team wasn't always known by that nickname. If memory (not personal memory of the time, but from reading too many baseball books in my short life) serves me they also were known as the Washington Nationals. I like it - although the Rangers may have the rights to the use of that name as well. Just stay away from the "Bullets" or anything close to the offensive knickname of the local football team.
 
In addition to Greys or buying back the rights for the Senators, under consideration are:
Washington Insiders (great name, my pick!) and
Washington Monuments (mentioned before, thought I'd point out it may actually happen, godawful if you ask me)

btw its the _Washington_ so-and-sos, not the DC so-and-sos

-RS
 
quidire said:
In addition to Greys or buying back the rights for the Senators, under consideration are:
Washington Insiders (great name, my pick!) and
Washington Monuments (mentioned before, thought I'd point out it may actually happen, godawful if you ask me)

btw its the _Washington_ so-and-sos, not the DC so-and-sos

-RS
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What about the Washington Lobbyists? :D
 
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