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Originally Posted by thurmas
Just wondering if anyone here thinks baseball will come back in some form to montreal. I would love to see a 18000 seat AAA ballpark (Buffalo I believe has dunn tire park which seats 20,000)built for montreal and have the ballpark expandble to 36000 if the majors did ever decide to return. Obviously the Big O is useless for all pro sports teams since it killed every one of it's tennants atleast once ie:expos,concordes, maniac, machine, alouettes twice almost. I would convert the big O into the national canadian olympic training grounds by converting the Big O into a world class velodrome and a track and field venue. Montreal has too rich a baseball history to have no baseball at all.
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Well, we just replaced our triple-A ball team with a CanAm league team and Québec City's also in the league, so Montreal would nicely round out the Canadian triumvirate. I'm not sure Montreal, formerly a major league city, would be as quick to embrace a minor league team but for all the true fans of the sport it would be a treat.
The Ottawa Lynx were the Expos' farm team for years and the few games I attended were in those days (I'm not a big baseball fan). When we switched and became the farm team of the Baltimore Orioles, it was like, huh? With the new team I suspect there might be a greater attachment from fans because it's really a local team and not a farm. Montreal's ball fans would be the same - I don't think Montreal would tolerate being anyone's farm team, but having a CanAm club might just be the ticket.