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Here's the troll that screwed the Expos. Looks like Tony Schaivone mated with...something he shouldn't have mated with?

Didn't "someone" buy 10,000 seats at Pro Player in late September just so the Expos wouldn't outdraw the Marlins?

Just to ask, where would you guys liked to have seen the Expos move to, provided they MUST leave Montreal? I still gotta say Norfolk, partly because I designed some cool artwork like the emblem for the cap and stuff.

Hey Al, wanna defend Hawkins again for me?

I never want to see LaTroy Hawkins or Moises Alou in Wrigley Field ever again.

That was YOU doing all of those OVW-style gimmick posts? That's ... awesome. That was me when I was a 14-year-old sophomore in high school. Wow. For those who care, all Jimm Ross posted were notices of OVW demotion. The form was always _________ has been sent to Jim Cornette's Ohio Valley Wrestling to work on his _____. We hope to see him again soon in the World Wrestling Federation. Or something like that. People I sent to OVW: Rikishi Mark Henry The Big Show Vince McMahon Myself Sadness OVW the WWF Cincinnati, Ohio (if this were today, I'd have demoted Passaic, NJ.)

He's the worst thing to ever happen to professional sports in North America. I'd have to say Gary Bettman raped the NHL worse than Selig did baseball. Like it or not, he's presided over this huge baseball renaissance. Gary Bettman is responsible for 3,000 people watching a Calgary Flames game in Greensboro. The stadium thing is ugly on the inside, but on the surface, it's great that the Vet, Three Rivers, Riverfront, Atlanta-Fulton and County Stadium are all gone. The Wild Card is finally gaining acceptance, I think, and at least Bud Selig is a baseball man and a baseball fan. He's not the worst thing ever. As the owner of the Brewers, I think he was a reasonably fair owner, at least in the 80s. Sure he's corrupt, but I really think that deep down, Bud wants to do the right thing and means well, he's just sort of an incompetent putz. Meanwhile, Bettman has tried to mold the NHL into the NBA On Ice, and it's been a major failure. Two lockouts now under his watch. Oodles of unsuccessful team relocations and bankruptcies. The best commissioner is David Stern. I don't know enough about Tagliabue, he just strikes me as a guy with a stick up his ass.

How much you wanna bet the move gets voted down?

"and that's why I kicked your lamp out of your lamp" sorry it's all I've got

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Isn't the wild card itself basically sneaking in the backdoor? So they'd be sneaking in the back door of the backdoor. Perhaps, sneaking through the dog door?

My favorite proposal was putting a team out in the middle of nowhere in northern Virginia and using the Expos as the cornerstone for a new community called "Diamond Lake." So now instead of creating teams for cities, we're creating cities for teams?

Why don't you think they wanted to move to Norfolk? It would be a baseball-only market (like Portland in the NBA), there would be a prospect for a very interesting park, I'm sure, the people have actively campaigned for a team, and Hampton Roads is a very quickly growing region. Plus you've got an instant rivalry with fellow Navy town, San Diego.

I heard they're leaning towards Nationals since the Rangers own Senators. Weren't the Twins originally the Nationals AND Senators?

I don't want baseball in DC, it'll suck. It'll be another team in a football stadium, the team is still gonna suck, and nobody is going to care because DC belongs to the Orioles right now (probably why the road uniforms don't say "Baltimore" like they ought to). They really would have been better off in Norfolk, where there's no major league sports whatsoever, and they could monopolize a great geographical area in most of Virginia (save for the northern fringe) and some of the Carolinas. Oh well. L.A. lost three football teams, maybe DC will lose three baseball teams. I'll miss those quirky Montreal Expos. They were one of the first teams I ever recall watching as a kid. Don't ask why, but I remember the ass-kicking Expos and not liking them. And Olympic Stadium, for all its faults, could have been a fine stadium had they torn the roof off the sucker and reconfigured it just a tad to make it look like a real ballpark. But shame on Jeffrey Loria. He was the one who screwed the team over, who let the plans for the Labatt Park downtown evaporate, he basically drove the nail in the coffin as far as the Expos go. But nobody talks about how he ruined the team on his way out before snatching the Marlins and a World Series, they just hail him as the savior of the Florida franchise. That little troll did a lot more harm than good by destroying Montreal rather than rebuilding Miami. Good luck Washington Senators/Nationals/Potomacs/whatever the hell they're called this time around. You may be in a bad neighborhood, but at least you know it's YOUR bad neighborhood.

Last year's Cubs were no choke, just the end. That was a pretty overachieving team. Now this year, with Wood, Prior, Maddux, Nomar, Sosa, Lee, Alou, Ramirez, and friends all unable to muster anything better than a Wild Card and end up 14 games or so behind the Cardinals...that's a choke.

I was thinking it would end up being a sweep and 1/3 myself.

I didn't have a problem with the jello wrestling, it's just that the fact that there were bodies covered in a red fluid made for a decent joke.

The series with the Giants will determine how in it the Padres are. But the Cubs should have it locked up by the end of the week.

The way the veins are popping out of his arms like that can be a telltale sign of steroid use. Not always, but sometimes.

Yeah, Israel doesn't initiate a damn thing. It's only when the Palestinians start suicide-bombing marketplaces and throwing rocks and whatever sort of immature tactics are up their sleeves that Israel has to retaliate, and as history has proven many times, they come back with twice the firepower that they were hit with. A "Hamas activist." That still gets me.

Charlie Garner, Ben Taylor, and Jon Ritchie are also out for the year, but worst of all is the promising young quarterback Rex Grossman tearing an ACL and ending his season and possibly 2005 as well. This leaves the Bears with Jonathan Quinn as the starting QB. So yeah. What should the Bears do? Pick somebody up to take over? I mean, this was supposed to be a pretty good team this year, and now we lost Mike Brown, David Terrell, and now Grossman. Chicago is Injury City this year, I guess.

"Activist" my ass. They killed a terrorist, and good for them. A "Hamas activist" is akin to a "cocaine enthusiast."

I think we should check his back for acne. And what IS a brick shithouse, anyway?

Oh, we need Scotsman to post here again