Expos de Montréal

[greenlobster]

The naysayers on this forum and elsewhere are annoying. People forget or don't know that baseball now has an awesome revenue sharing deal even better than any other sport. Also, Bell (if it is Bell) will pay a lot of money for broadcast rights in Canada. Plus, there is a huge difference from the Montreal of 2004. People are much better off and the population increased significantly.

 

They will be back by 2030.

100% right , money for the city on every ticket sale . TVQ on every ticket for the province . Extra tourists at each match , more hotel rooms rented, more resto revenue .More suburban Montrealers coming to spend money in the city at each match . I hope not to wait till 2030 . Montreal area population has increased by 450,000 since 2004 ;it is baseball time for Montreal .

[peekay]

^ All great points. Also, they left 10 years ago. Someone should count how many 10 year old children were at the exhibition games the past two years. Those are new human beings that were created since the expos left. How many of them will remain baseball fans? How many more will be born between now and the return of baseball? They will be back if simply by demographics alone.

2030 is only 15 years away. Not too long.

[Catpuke]

The naysayers on this forum and elsewhere are annoying. People forget or don't know that baseball now has an awesome revenue sharing deal even better than any other sport. Also, Bell (if it is Bell) will pay a lot of money for broadcast rights in Canada. Plus, there is a huge difference from the Montreal of 2004. People are much better off and the population increased significantly.

 

[Habsfan]

The naysayers on this forum and elsewhere are annoying. People forget or don't know that baseball now has an awesome revenue sharing deal even better than any other sport. Also, Bell (if it is Bell) will pay a lot of money for broadcast rights in Canada. Plus, there is a huge difference from the Montreal of 2004. People are much better off and the population increased significantly.

 

They will be back by 2030.

 

great points peekay! I agree. The revenue sharing deal is the only reason why I think that we could have a team. The other problem is that we still need to find someone willing to invest about 1.2 billion$ for a team and a new stadium NEAR the DOWNTOWN CORE!!!

[Habsfan]

If Bell ever does decide to invest, I'm dropping videotron and getting a Bell package for my cable and internet!

[Catpuke]

Je parierai plus sur la MLS que sur la MLB . Le baseball est en perte de vitesse aux Etats-Unis. La ligue qui grimpe tranquilement c'est la MLS . Le foot. Meme Christiano Ronaldo du Real Madrid parle qui aimerai jouer pour la MLS .

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/current_attendance.shtml

 

2 matche de baseball par année c'est bien . Par contre 80 pas trop sure que ca marcherai.

 

Effectivement. La MLS est en pleine expansion à Montréal ! C’était beau à voir au dernier match!

[andre md]

Tu pense que ce serai mieux avec 80 match de baseball.

Effectivement. La MLS est en pleine expansion à Montréal ! C’était beau à voir au dernier match!

[Habsfan]

J'avoue. J'étais là mercredi passé pour le match contre le Tornoto FC...et ça faisait dur. Pas grand monde dans les estrades!

[MtlMan]

Il pleuvait pas mal non?

[nephersir7]

En tout cas, il y a dû y avoir beaucoup de no-shows, l'assistance officielle était de ~13,000