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...attendance numbers despite having the highest ticket prices in baseball. In contrast, Olympic Stadium’s attendance is reaching record lows, and its V.I.P. seats behind home plate cost CAN$36, slightly cheaper than the US$25 obstructed-view outfield grandstand seats at Fenway Park. The favorable $1.50 Canadian-for-U.S. exchange rate enhances the visitors’ ability to acquire their respective hedonistic pleasures—families expose their children to French-Canadian tourism and culture, young couples wine and dine on the St. Lawrence waterfront and young males sample the infamous wares of St. Catherine?...
...long run, ensure that St. Catherine’s Street will never again erupt with chants of “Yankees suck!” at three in the morning. The same exchange rate that brought Red Sox fans cheap liquor is pressuring one unprofitable Canadian sports franchise after another to scurry across the border. And the misperception that the Expos’ fan base is inadequate, believed by all levels of the corporate hierarchy, will prevent any real initiative to save the team...
Because sports offer such a controlled environment where winners and losers are declared every day, they often provide clear insights into humanity. All of the insights involving the Expos’ position are depressing. French-Canadian natives are more than happy to sell out their team for a short-term profit. Boston natives take great glee in exploiting the Expos’ current situation while caring nothing about their future. Major League Baseball has shown no outrage at the possibility that Quebec, Eastern Ontario and Northern New England could be left without a local team, leaving the sport with fewer...
...ranked as the best in baseball during a year in which the World Series was cancelled—the ’94 Expos. Since then, the Expos have been through fire sale after fire sale, while the Yankees have won all but two World Series. When the Canadian Press tabulated the top 50 sports teams of the century, the ’94 Expos ranked just 41st, placing behind several curling teams. If the Expos do ultimately join baseball’s historical wasteland of anonymity, then the strike-shortened 1994 season may be the appropriate symbol...
...Canadian National Team, which featured 2000-01 Crimson co-captain Jennifer Botterill ’02-03 and winger Tammy Shewchuk ’00-01, won the world title. Botterill was named the tournament’s most outstanding player after scoring a world-best eight goals in five games...