blogic:Montreal Bids Adieu to Washington's New Baseball Team

Published on September 29, 2004 By blogic In Blogging

From Reuters:

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Fans of the Montreal Expos prepared to bid adieu on Wednesday, as Canada's first big league baseball team appeared set to move to Washington.

I feel for Montreal, but after living in DC for five years (go Adams Morgan!), I'm pretty jazzed to see the District finally getting a team. It's the largest metropolis without one. This decision does make baseball less international in at least two ways: (1) Duh, Montreal is in Canada, won't have a team now and (2) There was talk the team might relocate to Monterrey, Mexico.

Mrs. blogic and I talked last night about possible names. Being a standard baseball traditionalist, I'm hoping for the "Senators" as their new name. Of course, DC has already managed to lose two teams named that, so maybe it's a bad idea. I also like the "Executive Action", perhaps because I've seen too many action movies. My wife and I both like the "Capitals", which is the name held already by the local hockey team (Go Caps!), but that led to a discussion of whether a city should have two professional teams with the same name -- hey, New York had two "Giants" teams for decades.

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