Expos de Montréal

[eastender85]

Nos Règles Obligatoires des Fans pour les parties Mets vs Jays

 

C’est maintenant confirmé, un membre du personnel de la Ligue majeure du baseball sera présent aux matchs d’avant-saison à Montréal. Les fans d’ExposNation se verront donc dans l’obligation d’être bruyants et de se faire voir au Stade Olympique.

 

Nous avons deux jours pour montrer au monde du baseball que nous méritons de ravoir une équipe de la ligue majeure dans notre ville.

 

Voici comment procéder :

 

1. Portez les couleurs des Expos. Montrez à tous que vous êtes là pour que VOTRE équipe revienne et pas nécessairement en tant que fan des deux équipes sur le terrain (pour acheter des articles des Expos, voir ci-dessous).

 

2. Arrivez tôt. De simples amateurs arrivent à l’heure du match ou un peu après. Les vrais fans arrivent le plus tôt possible, car ils en veulent toujours plus!

 

3. Chantez « Let’s Go Expos », « Go Expos » et « Val-de-ri Val-de-ra » à l’unisson pendant les matchs.

 

4. Criez et applaudissez le plus fort possible pendant les festivités d’avant-match pour les anciens joueurs sur le terrain, ou à tout moment où les Expos sont mis en évidence.

 

5. Du 28 au 30 mars, lorsque vous émettez un tweet au sujet des Expos ou du baseball à Montréal, utilisez #ExposMTL comme mot-dièse (hashtag). Faisons en sorte que notre désir pour le retour du baseball devienne une tendance en ligne.

 

6. Soyez respectueux. Nous ne devons pas manquer de respect envers les joueurs de la MLB sur le terrain ou envers les fans dans la foule. Il est important d’éviter tout incident ou sujet controversé qui pourrait faire l’objet d’une couverture médiatique lors de ces deux matchs.

 

Si vous désirez vraiment ravoir le baseball, vous vous conformerez à ces règles – partagez-les avec d’autres fans!

 

http://exposnation.com/regles-obligatoires-des-fans/

[eastender85]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/sports/baseball/montreal-hopes-mets-blue-jays-exhibition-is-just-the-beginning.html?_r=0&referrer=

 

Envoyé de mon SGH-M919V en utilisant Tapatalk

[fguillotte]

The Montreal Expos: Not just a baseball team

 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/the-montreal-expos-not-just-a-baseball-team/article17619703/

[ProposMontréal]

Ça tombe à point avec la sortie de se livre avec le titre probablement le plus de l'histoire

 

Up, Up, and Away: The Kid, the Hawk, Rock, Vladi, Pedro, le Grand Orange, Youppi!, the Crazy Business of Baseball, and the Ill-fated but Unforgettable Montreal Expos.

[Exposteve]

I'm reading the Up, Up and Away book now - it's spectacular and a must-read for any Montrealer or any baseball fan. Even if you never really followed the Expos, there's a lot of interesting information and the author does a great job of telling the stories. Jonah Keri is a Montrealer and was a huge Expos fan, he's done a great job.

 

I will be at both games this weekend and will attend a number of the other events planned.

 

To get you in the mood as we approach the weekend...

 

 

 

Enjoy!

[Habsfan]

Im gonna order the book on Amazon for sure. Jonah Keri has been on TSN 690 these past few days talking about his book, and it sounds like a good read!

[vivreenrégion]

annulé ? le 29 car je vois de la neige dans les forecast. pas impossible que ça change d'ici samedi.

[Catpuke]

annulé ? le 29 car je vois de la neige dans les forecast. pas impossible que ça change d'ici samedi.

 

Est-ce que c'est votre première intervention dans ce thread ?

[vivreenrégion]

Est-ce que c'est votre première intervention dans ce thread ?

 

aucune idée, mais ils ont annulé (reporté) le match de l'Impact pour la même raison. Il y a possibilité de neige le 28 alors il faut en parler. On ne le saura pas avant jeudi-vendredi. Il ne faut pas se fier à Environnement Canada ou MM, puisque leurs prévisions sont automatisées à plus de 2 jours. Je ne souhaite pas de neige, mais si c'est reporté, beaucoup de gens vont sacrer.

Modifié 26 mars 2014 par vivreenrégion

[IluvMTL]

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/arts-and-lifestyle/2014/03/baseball-coming-back-montreal-weekend/8718/

 

POSTCARD

Baseball Is Coming Back to Montreal, for a Weekend

 

• MARK BYRNES
  
• MAR 25, 2014
  
• 2 COMMENTS
  

Reuters

 

 

Baseball is returning to Montreal this week, but only for two exhibition games.

It's been a decade since the Expos played their last game at Olympic Stadium and packed up for Washington, D.C. But now, the much-maligned stadium will host the Toronto Blue Jays (Canada's remaining MLB team) and the New York Mets (who the Expos played their first and last games ever against).

The wounds of the Expos's dysfunctional final years are healing, replaced by nostalgia. So far, 75,000 tickets have been sold, with event programming catered to people strictly there to remember when the city had its own team. On Friday, there will be a ceremony for Gary Carter, one of the most popular former Expos, who died in 2012. And on Saturday, the locallymythologized 1994 team, which many argue was good enough to win the World Series had it not been for the cancellation of the season that August, will be honored.

 

A 1969 film documenting how the Expos came to be.

As Ken Belson argued in the New York Times over the weekend, that strike put a damper on the Expos' best season and on Montreal's chance of keeping the team in town. With a struggling Canadian dollar, many Canadian sports teams in U.S.-based leagues faced financial troubles in the mid-90s. The team unloaded its best players soon after the strike. Attendance plummeted. And despite new ownership by the end of the decade, little changed.

Olympic Stadium symbolized the franchise's growing dysfunction. Its "retractable" roof could hardly even retract (and it's still a problem). If a weather forecast projects snow accumulation 24 hours before an event, the stadium is required to close and reschedule. The city's Major League Soccer team had to delay its home opener last weekend. There's no snow in the forecast for Friday or Saturday.

 

A rare glimpse of Olympic Stadium's retractable roof working properly.

Simon Arsenault, a manager for Evenko, the company putting together this weekend's events,tells Fox Sports that when the Expos left, so did much of the stadium's baseball infrastructure. Workers have rebuilt dugouts, bullpens, and a part of the outfield wall. The provincial government of Quebec (they own Olympic Stadium) purchased batting cages from the Rogers Centre in Toronto, where the Blue Jays play.

Just like when baseball-deprived Washington D.C. hosted similar exhibition games before taking the Expos, Montrealers hope large and enthusiastic crowds this weekend will help prove to Major League executives that the city deserves another chance. With the league not looking to expand, a recent feasibility study suggested bringing baseball back to Montreal would require a new stadium and an owner capable of spending $1 billion to purchase and relocate a team.

That seems unlikely for now. As long as the city doesn't have its own team, Evenko hopes the Blue Jays will make Montreal an annual preseason stop. The Toronto squad sees the weekend as a chance to keep growing its fan base in Quebec, an executive telling the Times, "our territory is Canada."

Premier of Quebec, Jean-Jacques Bertrand with Marie-Claire Drapeau and her husband, Montreal mayor Jean Drapeau at Jarry Park for the Expos' first ever home game on April 14, 1969. (Courtesy Montreal Archives)

A parade in honor of the Expos on April 7, 1970. (Courtesy Montreal Archives)

The view from behind the center field fence as more than 57,000 fans jammed into Olympic Stadium for the Montreal Expos home opener against Philadelphia Phillies in Montreal, April 16, 1977. The Expos lost the opener 7-2. (AP Photo/DMB)

The Montreal Expos workout on the new turf at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, April 1, 2001. (REUTERS/Shaun Best)

A cleaner walks with his broom through Olympic Stadium, the home of the Montreal Expos, in Montreal November 6, 2001. (REUTERS/Christinne Muschi)

Two people are alone in line at Olympic Stadium in Montreal as they buy tickets for the Montreal Expos home opener, April 1, 2002. (REUTERS/Shaun Best)

Montreal Expos fans carry a banner that says "Toronto makes me Sick" during the Expos interleague game against the Toronto Blue Jays in Montreal, June 20, 2003. (REUTERS/Shaun Best)

Montreal Expos players Henry Mateo (L), Endy Chavez © and Nelson Robledo sit in the dark following a power failure at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, August 13, 2003. (REUTERS/Shaun Best)

Thousands of empty seats at Olympic Stadium before a Montreal Expos' game during their final home stand of the 2004 season. (REUTERS/Christinne Muschi)

Top image: The main entrance to Olympic Stadium before a Montreal Expos' game during their final home stand of the 2004 season. (REUTERS/Christinne Muschi)

Mark Byrnes is an associate editor at The Atlantic Cities. All posts »