Subj : Expos
To   : Ed Grinnell
From : Lucien Carrier
Date : Sat Jul 22 2000 05:46 am

Bonjour Ed,

Le 20 Juillet 2000 [20:45], Ed Grinnell ‚crivait ceci … Lucien Carrier...

 EG> So much has been made about how Montreal is a hockey city and
 EG> that's the reason why MLB hasn't worked there but the fact is that
 EG> Montreal used to be one of the top teams in attendance. Blaming
 EG> hockey doesn't hold water because the Canadiens were far more
 EG> powerful AND popular when the Expos were drawing 2 million or more
 EG> fans.

You can find easily a lot of baseball fans here at Montreal but with all 
negative comments we heard about the Expos (Owner, medias, etc.), it's easy
to understand the "problem with attendance" we have. :-(

 EG> before and their fans understand that. The old Montreal regime was
 EG> too cheap and the local media gave them an out by blaming the fans
 EG> for being hockey fans. Hockey is as much of a religion in Toronto
 EG> and yet, they don't seem to have the same problems.

I agreed. We have not only hockey fans. We have a very good football club too,
the Montreal's Alouettes, and that team have a very success here but they make 
an aggressive marketing to attract more fans!

Not the case for the Expos. We can see one of the best baseball players 
(Vladimir Guerrero, Jose Vidro, Dustin Hermanson, Javier Vasquez...) but if you 
ask people in town, major part of them can't name one of these players but they 
can talk with you about Loria, the Olympic Stadium (personnally, I love this 
building, my " Big O "!), the salary, the bad attitude baseball stars have, the 
moving of the club (Washington? Charlotte?) and more but about the Expos's 
players, they have a blank! (GGG)

It's not their entire fault; the marketing for the Expos are poor, quiet and 
cheap ($$$)...

Prochaine,

                            Lucien Carrier
                              Luca SBE! 

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