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Every team is in first place on opening day, goes an old baseball maxim. Hope and possibility abound. Unless you are a member of the impossibly hopeless Montreal Expos. Then opening day is just the first chord of a season-long funeral march. "I like to use the analogy of...
The Expos, sickly for years, are now Team Tumor. After a decade of cheapskate owners and lousy attendance--last year they averaged a pitiful 7,935 fans per game, 24,000 below the league average--Major League Baseball tried to eliminate the Expos this past winter. But the players' union...
That alone makes their 2002 season one of the weirdest in baseball history. But it gets more absurd. Assuming the Expos wouldn't exist, baseball commissioner Bud Selig let owner Jeffrey Loria buy the Florida Marlins. When Loria went South, he took with him the Expos' manager, coaching staff, all...
July 27th—Speaking of trades, the Expos, who are playing some of their best baseball since the strike-shortened 1994 season make some interesting moves. Under strong pressure from the commissioner, the Expos trade Vladimir Guerrero, Javier Vazquez and Jose Vidro to the Milwaukee Brewers for cash considerations...
July 28th—Just one day later, Expos GM Omar Minaya trades himself to the New York Mets and assumes his old position. Mets GM Steve Phillips comments that Minaya was the most talented person remaining in the Expos organization.