Cowboy Joe Rips Yankees/Red Sox

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Steven Tyler

FWIW-The Montreal Expos used have one of the best minor league systems in all of baseball. They drafted and trained many seviceable major leaguers over the years. Some have made the HOF.

When Jeffrey Loria skipped out of town and bought the Marlins, he took a good portion of the staff and knowledge with him.

MLB took over the franchise and ran it into the ground. It is going to take a major rebuilding job to get them back to respectibility again.

I spent about an hour talking about the Expos with a friend of mine just a few weeks ago. The strike hurt them more than any other franchise. And the exchange rate (at the time). And Loria skipping town and MLB operating them on a shoestring budget were the final nails in the coffin.

I loved going to Montreal every couple of years for a Phillies series. I was there in September 1993 and was in a packed-to-the-gills Olympic Stadium watching the Phils and Expos play for the division. Phils took 2 out of 3 and won the division and went to the World Series. Montreal came back in 1994 and had the best team in baseball in the one year there was no World Series.