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Friday, May 29, 2015

Canada BlueJays?

By Tangotiger 01:48 PM

?Well, perhaps for one 3- or 4-game series, according to what the Montreal mayor says he can get.  It would have to be Toronto as the home team shifting their games, since that would guarantee maximum fans, and make it viable for that club.  I can easily see for example 1000 season ticket holders make the trek from Toronto to Montreal, especially if the series was around July 1 (Canada Day), and July 1-3, 2016 is Fri-Sun.  The opposing team would preferably be the Mets, Redsox, or Yankees, again to maximize success (fans from those cities would easily be able to come to Montreal, especially for July 1).  I can't imagine either of these three teams objecting.  First, the proximity works better than Toronto.  Secondly, Montreal has plenty of fans who would support the Sox or Yanks ahead of the Jays.

They can even put in a stipulation like the way the NHL did with the Jets, in terms of getting certain number of tickets sold by various dates.  Say, they need 20,000 seats sold by Mar 1, 30,000 by Apr 1, and 40,000 by June 1.  If those targets are hit, the game is on.  If not, then the Jays have the option to put the game back in Toronto.


#1    Jacob Jackson 2015/05/31 (Sun) @ 16:38

Montreal Rays in 2028.  We’re only 13 years away!


#2    Tangotiger 2015/05/31 (Sun) @ 18:38

The chance that the Montreal team will be called Rays is 0%.  No team based in Quebec will ever have a team that is english-only.


#3    John Carter 2015/06/07 (Sun) @ 13:13

Ray could be short for rayon. How many words are the same in English as they are in French that go back far enough without offending either group? Les Montreal Week-ends? Les Hors doeuvres de Montreal?


#4    John Carter 2015/06/07 (Sun) @ 13:48

Something Montreal is famous for:
Montreal Bagels

Something Montrealers are proud about and comes from a neutral language:
Montreal Fashionistas

This is going to be très difficile.


#5    Tangotiger 2015/06/07 (Sun) @ 16:17

English people in Quebec accept french team names, like Nordiques and Alouettes.


#6    NaOH 2015/06/07 (Sun) @ 22:59

Call them the Raines, the Dawsons, or the Carters. Everyone would know what those mean.


#7    DavidJ 2015/06/07 (Sun) @ 23:38

Montreal Grosbeaks! A touch of French in the name, and bird nicknames go great with baseball.

The Evening Grosbeak is native year-round to Quebec, and has a cool expression and yellow-black-white color scheme that would lend itself naturally to a logo and uniforms. (The Pine Grosbeak is also native to Quebec, but baseball already has a red bird team.)

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Evening_Grosbeak/id


#8    Phil D 2015/06/07 (Sun) @ 23:50

My guess is the next Montreal team (should there be one) would be named the Expos and adopt the history of the original franchise. It would analogous to what the NFL did with the Cleveland Browns or what MLS did with the San Jose Earthquakes.


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