Au Revoir Mes Amours
By Well, the inevitable is now official. Since I’ll be going to Shea to see their last game ever on Sunday, I’ll post more about it then. I do wish to note that you’ll be hearing a lot about how baseball could never have worked in Montreal because it wasn’t a “baseball town,” and that in fact this just unvarnished bullshit. Like all historical events, the failure of the Expos was highly contingent. (Hint: check the attendance figures from 1979-83, or in the 6 weeks before the strike in 1994.)
UPDATE: In the meantime, a great piece (which, I swear, I read after this entry) from Jonah Keri at the Baseball Prospectus.