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Originally posted by slavdogg@Feb 28 2003, 07:08 AM
Alex, will you be dancing in the streets when Expos leave Montreal ?
or have they left already ?
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Slav, honestly, I use to go and see baseball, 25 years ago when there were alot fewer millionaires and a havenot team in a smaller market could actually have a hope.
Expos pulled in 25k people for weekend games, 10k-14k during the week, pretty darn good numbers.
Last year, most of the weekday games (unless there was some major promotion) would pull about 3k people... weekend games maybe 10k.
Expos could disappear, and the only people that would really miss them would be the sportscasters with nothing to yap about all summer. Other than that, no biggie.
Baseball is the worst of the worst when it comes to overpriced babies (and moronic team owners) - paying a player 25 million a year to play ball is just not very logicial (think about it... team gets, what, 90 home games? At $50 per ticket, it takes about 6000 people per game to pay for this guy to play... that is a SINGLE player... it's stunning in it's stupidity!).
Alex