Comments on: The Jays are open to playing a game in Montreal http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Thu, 23 May 2013 08:35:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: b7p19 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125844 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:34:21 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125844 The home of Tony Gwynns 3,000th hit!! Still have that sucker on VHS. (That means TiVo to all you kids out there)

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125840 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:13:52 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125840 Yeah, Oily was the original. He loved the Expos. You could make him howl by saying “Alou” really long and slow. But all my dogs have been mutts, except my Border Collie (my brother got one and she turned out to be pregnant so we wound up with a purebred pup). I am also a mutt. I believe the term Tiger Woods uses is “multi ethnic”. I’m a little less formal; plain old mongrel. As such the ‘cur’ is a redaction of my actual first name and a pretty close description of what you’re all dealing with. Not too sophisticated, maybe a bit inclined to eat poorly, a definite tendency to sh!t disturb, not much in the looks department but loyal, easily amused and, of course, fond of the beaver. I’d need to visit the sex reassignment clinic before I considered “beaver68″.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125834 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:51:15 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125834 Macondo feels for Montreal, being that we are both cursed with Scrooge McLoria (he may be gone, mes aimes, but his stench pongs onward like Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’s torso and you will probably still find him indexed in Dominique Laporte’s Histoire du merde). We also share the oddity of large population segments who speak some unintelligible variation on the Dauphin’s French. So there’s lots in common here. Given the sizable Franco-Canadian winter population of Hollywood, Florida, it’s a surprise that we don’t see more ash-stained countenances coming out to stand in the parking lot and boo Scrooge when he pulls in for…eh…work(?) this time of year.

]]> By: Old Gator http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125833 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:45:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125833 Was Oilcan the “cur” in cur68? Time mebbe to replace him with a beaver?

]]> By: xmatt0926x http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125822 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:33:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125822 Montreal was a great organization way back when and they drew crowds. Younger people assume that they were just another Tampa Rays where there just wasn’t ever much interest, but thats not the case. 1994 was their year and they easily had the best team in baseball before the season was cut short. Who knows what would have happened there if they went on to win the world series that year.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125777 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:12:13 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125777 At my house: ti’s just me and the dog. In Alberta; it’s pretty good when our hockey teams are already eliminated from the playoffs (which they are now). Out west in general; I don’t know but 10 years ago when I lived in Vancouver it was de rigueur to head for Seattle with a bunch of friends for Mariners games especially when the Jays were visiting them.

]]> By: gatherspeed http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125775 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:07:44 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125775 I like it. Montreal was a great baseball town (in the 70s and 80s) and it took a big hit in 1994 and when it started to slowly come back (2003), MLB squashed it like a bug with no September call-ups and cost the Expos a chance at the wildcard.

I surprised there is not at least a AAA team there. (is there a viable stadium?)

A couple of years ago the Rays played some games in Orlando. The Blue Jays should consider the same.

]]> By: atribecalledtwolves http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125772 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:06:13 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125772 A few question for our Canadian friends here, what exactly is the Blue Jay support for the Blue Jay’s outside of Ontario? This is a question that always comes to my mind that I’ve never asked. Moreover, what is the general interest of baseball throughout Canada at the moment?

]]> By: pestiesti http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125754 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:40:51 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125754 Darn it. I was coming to make a Jonah Keri joke and you beat me to it. Canadian self-deprecation screwing it up for the rest of us.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125751 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:34:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125751 I’d go see that. I miss the Expos like I miss my dog Oilcan. They both died the same year.

]]> By: Jonah http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125743 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:28:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125743 Sad Jonah is sad.

]]> By: Joe http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125732 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:12:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125732 What he said ^^^

]]> By: Mr. Jason "El Bravo" Heyward http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/04/07/the-jays-are-open-to-playing-a-game-in-montreal/comment-page-1/#comment-125729 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:07:54 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=49998#comment-125729 Worst. Park. Ever. (but, I’d go for nostalgia’s sake)

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