The Montreal Expos: Why The Expos Left Montreal

Besides Bud Selig, who colluded with the carpet bagging last owner of the Montreal Expos, Jeffry Loria, here's what really did the Expos in. The "fans" in Montreal were amongst the biggest catalyst for the demise & departure of the Expos, along with the English media in Montreal that went into overdrive to do anything and everything to make players and the diehard supporters like myself and a few select others feel like you were an idiot and a loser if you supported the team. By the mid-'80s, a lot of top players wanted out and the fair weather friends were nowhere to be found. In all cities the media kvetches about their team every year, but when the media bangs the drums of dissent and puts the idea of moving in everyone's head and is only happy when it does happen and gets to say "I told you so." Montreal is unlike other sports cities in the sense that its addiction to negativity would only be satiated by actually driving the Expos out. Maybe the press thought that if they ... (link)