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Posted on 9/29/25 at 9:34 pm to NorthshoreTiger76
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1994 was their year
That team was fricking stacked.
Young Pedro.
Jeff Fassero
Larry Walker
Marquis Grissom
Cliff Floyd
Moises Alou
Wetteland and Rojas in the back of the pen.
They would have won it all that year.
Posted on 9/29/25 at 9:37 pm to ArmydawgMD
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English speaking players preferred not to live in a French speaking province
You have your English speaking areas close to the border w/New York/Vermont that were an hour's drive from Montreal.
But your larger point is valid.
Posted on 9/29/25 at 9:56 pm to ArmydawgMD
Seems like most of the players who played up there enjoyed the experience of the city and the fans (not necessarily a large fan base but enthusiastic for the team and its players).
The stadium and lousy ownership were the primary negatives from what I’ve read in the past.
The stadium and lousy ownership were the primary negatives from what I’ve read in the past.
Posted on 9/29/25 at 10:27 pm to S
Andres “Big Cat” Gallarga
I remember watching Braves games on TBS at Montreal and there were maybe 3000-4000 in the stands
I remember watching Braves games on TBS at Montreal and there were maybe 3000-4000 in the stands
This post was edited on 9/29/25 at 10:29 pm
Posted on 9/30/25 at 5:55 am to RedFoxx
Casey Candaele
Posted on 9/30/25 at 6:49 am to BasilFawlty
Bill "Spaceman" Lee. Only MLB player that had Warren Zevon write and record a song about him. Also was so stoned one day while jogging through his neighborhood, that he stumbled and impaled his non-pitching forearm on an iron fence.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 7:03 am to SCLibertarian
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Their fans, or the lack thereof.
1998 Average Attendance: 11,295
1999 Average Attendance: 9,054
2000 Average Attendance: 11,435
2001 Average Attendance: 7,935
2002 Average Attendance: 10,031
2003 Average Attendance: 12,662
2004 Average Attendance: 9,356
Exactly, no one was going to games there. It's very simple. I love the nostalgia of it but let's not pretend the reason is not obvious.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 7:27 am to BasilFawlty
F.P. Santangelo
Posted on 9/30/25 at 7:32 am to Lexis Dad
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You have your English speaking areas close to the border w/New York/Vermont that were an hour's drive from Montreal. But your larger point is valid
The majority of downtown Montreal and everything from Montreal west to Ontario is English speaking.
The divide happens when you go east.
Until 1996 they were middle bottom to attendance then the bottom fell out
I would say the main reasons they moved.
1) Olympic stadium was an absolute shithole and was so far away from everything that it was the equivalent of putting a stadium in Hahnville
2) 1994/1995 first was the strike and was their year to win it. Second was the Quebec referendum where the province came within 100k votes of leaving Canada (the real reason they ended up leaving which will absolutely not be brought up in the doc) this tanked the dollar and caused a lot of English corporations to move to Toronto.
3) because of two they had massive sell offs in the mid 90s then sold too Jeffrey Lauria who was basically there to move the team. They were the pirates before the pirates. Those early 2000s teams with vladdy and rondelle white should have been way better
4) they never had a national tv deal like the jays. The jays after they left are on tv everywhere in Canada now the expos you could rarely watch in English and honestly the French tv was spotty
5) the government of Quebec was never going to help with a stadium in a better location
Their turf was also horrific. It was the thinist shite ever you could feel sewer grates under etc
This post was edited on 9/30/25 at 7:59 am
Posted on 9/30/25 at 8:27 am to Enzos Tiny Pito
Can they return 
Posted on 9/30/25 at 8:57 am to jb4
I always remember their turf, their field, looking like dogshit watching them play the Braves as a kid. It's weird the things you remember when young.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 9:00 am to Kinderman
I remember seeing highlights of their last game in 2004 getting blown out by the Marlins
The fans were crying on tv
The fans were crying on tv
Posted on 9/30/25 at 9:41 am to Alt26
Jeff Fassero
Posted on 9/30/25 at 10:14 am to BigD45
Pete Rose
Posted on 9/30/25 at 10:54 am to Enzos Tiny Pito
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4) they never had a national tv deal like the jays. The jays after they left are on tv everywhere in Canada now the expos you could rarely watch in English and honestly the French tv was spotty
I’m pretty sure that in their final years, they didn’t even have an English radio broadcast. It was all French.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 11:05 am to OWLFAN86
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Rusty Staub
“Le Grand Orange”…. Born in New Orleans and played for Jesuit High School
Posted on 9/30/25 at 11:15 am to DiamondDog
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People will disagree but I find it weird Montreal had a franchise before many other big named American cities. I find it weird they had a team at all.
Montreal was known as a great minor league city for years. It was one of Jackie Robinson’s stops. The fact that they fed the Dodgers was a huge help, as they were competing for titles and have been known for having a great farm system. Walter O’Malley was also overseeing the expansion process.
The stadium issue was big, but I’m sure there were promises thrown in, empty as they may have been.
Posted on 9/30/25 at 11:36 am to TexasTiger08
Tim Wallach
Posted on 9/30/25 at 11:58 am to DrewTheEngineer
Eli Wallach
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