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|  #1 Posted on 22.7.04 1656.03 | Instant Rating: 5.32 | | Promote this thread! |           | StaggerLee
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| #2 Posted on 22.7.04 1727.07 | Instant Rating: 3.31 | Well, guess its time I go over to http://www.norfolkbaseballcompany.com and get on thier message boards and tell them I TOLD YOU SO. Somehow, those clowns in Norfolk were CONVINCED they were the best choice! LOL!
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Thank you for your irrelevant opinion.
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| #3 Posted on 22.7.04 2046.31 | Instant Rating: 5.38 | | The best plan would have been Vegas and the A.L. West for the Expos, while the D-Rays go to the N.L. East. Would have gone into a new market with a competitive team not hampering another team, and would have put the D-Rays in a division with 2 natural rivals. Now, baseball still has a Tampa franchise overmatched in their division, while Baltimore will be weakened and the Expos are going to a place that spit the bit twice already. As long as the Blue Jays pay in Canadian dollars, this almost guarantees New York/Boston 1-2 in the A.L East for the foreseeable future. | Bullitt
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|  #4 Posted on 22.7.04 2232.08 | Instant Rating: 7.53 | Originally posted by redsoxnation
As long as the Blue Jays pay in Canadian dollars
Maybe I read this wrong, but the Jays pay salaries in USD. Yes, they do take IN Canadian money, of course...
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| #5 Posted on 23.7.04 0737.57 | Instant Rating: 8.43 |
Originally posted by Kawshen
They're now "likely" going to DC.
They've been moving for about five years. I will believe it when the moving vans back up to the stadium.
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| #6 Posted on 23.7.04 0754.00 | Instant Rating: 4.25 | 
The latest issue of Time's cover story, where Joel Stein lets us know that Vegas is fun, has a little blurb about there still being plans to move the Expos there.
Article's here...requires subscription. Sorry.
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| #7 Posted on 23.7.04 0831.41 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | Incidentally, as an Orioles fan I am not worried about the longterm effects of this. Hell, I'll go see the Nationals every once in a while...
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| #8 Posted on 23.7.04 0910.28 | Instant Rating: 4.84 | Originally posted by Grimis
Incidentally, as an Orioles fan I am not worried about the longterm effects of this. Hell, I'll go see the Nationals every once in a while...
I just HOPE they don't get the idea at the last minute to call them the Senators for their sake...using that name for a baseball team name may or may not be jinxed. 
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| #9 Posted on 23.7.04 0916.50 | Instant Rating: 4.89 | Originally posted by StaggerLee
Well, guess its time I go over to http://www.norfolkbaseballcompany.com and get on thier message boards and tell them I TOLD YOU SO. Somehow, those clowns in Norfolk were CONVINCED they were the best choice! LOL!
Hey, we can dream, can't we? Not that I am on the message board over there...but I was still hoping (though realizing it was a long shot) that we'd get a major league team to come to Norfolk. Oh well. The Tides will continue to keep me entertained and at $7.50 a ticket, I can't go wrong...I will miss David Wright though...
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| #10 Posted on 23.7.04 0946.55 | Instant Rating: 7.03 | Originally posted by pieman
Originally posted by Kawshen
They're now "likely" going to DC.
They've been moving for about five years. I will believe it when the moving vans back up to the stadium.
Even then it's not a done deal. The Seahawks moved to Anaheim a couple of years ago and the trucks DID leave, with protesters there and everything.
(Note for non-football fans: They DID come back, though.)
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| #11 Posted on 23.7.04 0950.38 | Instant Rating: 4.84 | Originally posted by JayJayDean
Originally posted by pieman
Originally posted by Kawshen
They're now "likely" going to DC.
They've been moving for about five years. I will believe it when the moving vans back up to the stadium.
Even then it's not a done deal. The Seahawks moved to Anaheim a couple of years ago and the trucks DID leave, with protesters there and everything.
(Note for non-football fans: They DID come back, though.)
Yeah, but you know...fans in the D.C./Baltimore area, they're a little more sensitive than most when it comes to putting "team" and "moving trucks" in the same sentence. :)
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| #12 Posted on 23.7.04 0959.32 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | I never knew it got that far with the Seahawks...
Originally posted by Blanket Jackson
Yeah, but you know...fans in the D.C./Baltimore area, they're a little more sensitive than most when it comes to putting "team" and "moving trucks" in the same sentence. :)
I still flip off Mayflower moving vans whenever I see one...
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| #13 Posted on 23.7.04 1159.41 | Instant Rating: 6.09 | Originally posted by pieman
Originally posted by Kawshen
They're now "likely" going to DC.
They've been moving for about five years. I will believe it when the moving vans back up to the stadium.
I think actually, that this year we are having the seventh annual "Very last Expos game in Montreal... and this time we REALLY REALLY mean it."
Sometimes I feel like the Expos exist as a weird petri dish experiment to see just how badly you have to treat the fans until they won't stop coming.
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| #14 Posted on 23.7.04 1746.58 | Instant Rating: 1.39 | So is that the Expos' new name? The Nationals? I can't see them keeping the current team name. No matter where they go, I hope they change the name. It's my opinion that it'd be a chance to liven up MLB without watering down the league's talent like expansion would do.
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| #15 Posted on 24.7.04 1406.10 | Instant Rating: 5.02 | Originally posted by Blanket Jackson
I just HOPE they don't get the idea at the last minute to call them the Senators for their sake...using that name for a baseball team name may or may not be jinxed.
A small bit of irony in this being that the AA affiliate for the Expos is the Harrisburg Senators, a team that until recently had quite a successful run in the Eastern League, winning 4 straight championships from 1996-1999, as well as a win in 1993 (all after switching affiliation to the Expos). It was also the team where Vlad Guerrero rose to prominence.
Put this in the column for "may not be"?
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| #16 Posted on 24.7.04 1748.51 | Instant Rating: 2.77 | Who owns the Expos right now? Last I think I heard is the MLB owns them but will they continue to own them or sell them after they move to D.C.
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| #17 Posted on 24.7.04 1754.10 | Instant Rating: 6.60 | | You wanted the best, you got... Out of Context Quote of the Week.
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Originally posted by XPacArmy
Who owns the Expos right now? Last I think I heard is the MLB owns them but will they continue to own them or sell them after they move to D.C.
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I'm pretty sure they'd sell. MLB wants this whole situation to be over with as soon as possible... the only reason they even own the 'Spos is that they couldn't find a buyer beforehand (and Jeffrey Loria just HAS to have a team).
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| #18 Posted on 27.7.04 1812.28 | Instant Rating: 5.19 | I find it ironic that the "new" Washington DC team...which will be playing in the capital of the US... is from Canada.
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| #19 Posted on 28.7.04 1421.02 | Instant Rating: 4.05 | Originally posted by estragand
I find it ironic that the "new" Washington DC team...which will be playing in the capital of the US... is from Canada.
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How is that ironic?
I find it ironic that baseball is as American as apple pie, but apples originated in Asia.
http://www.appleofyourpie.com/apples/
Now that's irony. 
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| #20 Posted on 29.7.04 0925.57 | Instant Rating: 4.25 |
Originally posted by Grimis
I never knew it got that far with the Seahawks...
Originally posted by Blanket Jackson
Yeah, but you know...fans in the D.C./Baltimore area, they're a little more sensitive than most when it comes to putting "team" and "moving trucks" in the same sentence. :)
I still flip off Mayflower moving vans whenever I see one...
Mayflower is still the moving service of choice for NFL teams to transport their gear on the road. There's always 1 or 2 of their big trailers backed up to the visiting team's locker room loading dock @ Lambeau.
Every time I see it coming out of the media entrance (yep, we have our own walkway now...snazzy!), I wonder where the re-location's going to...and what bar where will rename their bathroom as the "Bob Irsay Room" next.
Star wipe, and...we're out.
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