Re: Les Expos en Boston?

["Aaron [Bishop] Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

At 03:40 PM 10/24/2002, Sean Smyth wrote:
>The New York Daily News reports in today's editions that Major League
>Baseball is considering relocating the Montreal Expos, moving the team to
>Boston on a temporary basis. The team would lease out Fenway Park when the
>Red Sox travel out of town. Would the Boston media pay any attention to the
>Expos, or would they get even less media attention than they did in
>Montreal? I wonder if they would even be able to find radio and TV outlets
>to air their games here (though I am sure that is a small consideration in
>this whole thing). According to Boston.com, Red Sox president Larry Lucchino
>denied that such discussions have taken place.

Assuming Montreal doesn't want them, why not?   It might be a good thing to 
have two teams that both need a swift kick in the ass in the same town, 
maybe they'd either start performing...or if the Expos did well then maybe 
the greedy punks in charge of the Red Sox would stop gouging us on ticket 
prices.

I bet I could convince WZBC to cover Expos games.  After all, both WZBC and 
WEEI cover the BC Eagles football already, why not WZBC for another sports 
venue?  :-)   Better yet, perhaps the Expos could play at Boston 
University?  I think it'd be strangely fitting if Nickerson Field was host 
to a major league baseball team again (used to be Boston Braves field 
waaaaaaaay back in the day).


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