Yankees Suck: Yes, or Yes?

[A Black Falcon]

At least the Red Sox get there sometimes. :)

[Darunia]

Yea, that's true, ABF...but is it REALLY better to get there sometimes only to always be forced out in some traumatic way? It's almost better to just never get that far, to never get one's hopes up just to have them dashed.

I've met two people with Mets hats on in the last week; neither liked the Yankess. One all-out hated the Yankees.

[Weltall]

Look, no one was cursed the way the Buffalo Bills were.

Except maybe the Philadelphia Eagles, but in a lesser way.

[The Former DMiller]

The Bills curse only lasted a few years, though. We are talking about almost 100 years of futility with the Red Sox and Cubs.

[Darunia]

Man--we totally RAPED the Yankees Sunday!! :clap:

[Weltall]

The Bills curse never ended. They have descended from perpetual bridesmaids to a total existence of suckage, with only the somewhat-bright days of Flutie-Mania in-between.

Let's also not forget that the Arizona Cardinals have never won a championship in almost 105 years of existence. How's THAT for futility?

[A Black Falcon]

Four straight wins, 2 1/2 games back with five games left... must they torture us so?

[OB1]

Bo Jackson is so cool.

[Darunia]

Yea the Eastern Division is just about over now. They won 2 tonight in a double-header; we dropped one to Tampa Bay. It's not IMPOSSIBLE, but it's bloody goddamn unlikely.

[Darunia]

The Expo's logo---what the hell is it, it looks like a big "JL"...whats that supposed to mean?

[Fittisize]

The red part is an E for Expos, the blue part a B for baseball, all made too look like an M for Montreal.

On a sad note, I just finished watching a marathon of a baseball game, which included an hour of Expos players, past and present talking about their favourite moments, and a history of the Montreal Expos. After the game all the players took a final bow, to a standing ovation of tear-shedding fans (both at the stadium and at home, as well as the players on the field). The final game the the Expos will ever play in Montreal. It feels like I've lost a family member. I don't think that I can watch baseball anymore. Not after what the Expos and myself (and many other fans) went through watching Montreal over the years.

[Great Rumbler]

Well, it looks like the Rangers blew their chance to make the playoffs...

[The Former DMiller]

It's over. The Cubs are doomed. If the Cubs can't beat the Reds and the Mets how can they hope to beat the Braves this weekend? I hate the Cubs with all of my soul.

[Darunia]

The faults of the Expos, Rangers and the Cubs are not their own---ITS THE YANKEES' FAULT! Let's get 'em!!

[Great Rumbler]

YEAH, GET 'EM!!!

[Fittisize]

The bell tolls on the Expos...
AU REVOIR
It was a sad, sad day for baseball fans in Montreal. The league, after dragging its heels for years, finally announced Wednesday that the Expos franchise would no longer play in Montreal after this season. And that meant they'd no longer be playing in Montreal after Wednesday, their last home game of the season.
The 9-1 loss to the Marlins was a side-note to the 31,395 in attendance at Olympic Stadium, which rarely sees more than a few thousand people on game day. But the sadness was plainly written on so many of their faces as they waved goodbye to the franchise that has given them 35 years of major-league baseball; 35 years of memories.

From its early days at Jarry Park to its final game at Olympic Stadium, the Expos organization produced some truly great players. Hall-of-fame catcher Gary Carter started and ended his career there; Tim Raines emerged as one of the all-time greatest base-stealers with the Expos; outfielder Andre Dawson was a three-time all-star with the Expos and third baseman Tim Wallach was a five-time Expos all-star; Canada's all-time best hitter, Larry Walker came into his own in Montreal; one of the greatest pitchers of all time, Randy Johnson, originally came up as an Expo; and then there's Vladimir Guerrero who may be the best of them all. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.

The Expos only made the postseason once, in the strike-shortened 1981 season, but were ousted in the first round of a makeshift playoff schedule by the Dodgers on an infamous Rick Monday home run. Again, in 1994, a strike spoiled the Expos' fun, as they were the best team in baseball when the strike ended the season and the postseason was canceled. "Fool me once," said Expos fans as they decided in droves that they wouldn't let baseball and its labor troubles toy with their emotions anymore. So, understandably, most Montreal baseball fans stopped coming to the park.

It will undoubtedly be asked, why didn't the extra 20,000 people who came to the park Wednesday night come every other night? But the answer surely is that many among those were the disillusioned, returning to celebrate what baseball once was to them. For them, baseball in Montreal already ended 10 years ago when they were robbed of their dream season by stubborn players and owners.

At around 10:00pm ET, outfielder Terrmel Sledge popped out to current Marlins infielder and ex-Expo Mike Mordecai to end the game and turn out the lights on Olympic Stadium as a major-league baseball park. In the end, it's the best thing for this lost and neglected franchise to relocate, but that's no consolation to the thousands of diehard Expos fans that, believe it or not, do exist in Montreal.

But Montreal baseball fans only need look to the city getting their franchise, Washington, D.C., for a faint sense of hope. After all, the city has lost not one but two major-league franchises in the past. It took D.C. 33 years to get baseball back. So, who knows, it may take a few decades, but the door may not be entirely closed on major-league baseball in Montreal.

[A Black Falcon]

The red part is an E for Expos, the blue part a B for baseball, all made too look like an M for Montreal.

Huh. I've been wondering about that for years... what is it, elb? jb? jllo? Never thought of that one... it actually makes sense, too! Though the logo is still quite confusing.


Poor Expos... I liked them too. It's really sad to see what could have been a great team and baseball town be destroyed like that...

[Darunia]

Yea, I like the Expos---its one of those teams that I wouldn't mind even if the Sox lost to, because I just pity them...like the Devil Rays. I didn't mind their beating us 9-4 last night at all. The YANKEES, ON THE OTHER HAND...


*Retreats into the Angry Dome*