Thanks for well wishes from dave4248&JamesLisle. I lived in Montreal for 28 years. When Expos were hot, the whole city of Montreal would liven up. They were an excellent franchise. They developed so many star players, Rains, Carter, Dawson, Walker, Staub, etc... but unfortunately could not afford to pay them in the end. Part of the difficulty of having a franchise in Montreal is the inability to get a large television contract. Toronto became Canada's "national team" and most TV revenues went to the Blue Jays. Revenues for the Expos were not sufficient in the end....also, getting a new stadium is key , hopefully located downtown. The Olympic Stadium was not designed for baseball and was along subway ride away...maybe some day...Pray! P.S. Jackie Robinson played in Montreal , for Montreal Royals. So did Tommy Lasorda of the LA Dodgers....
I miss my expos. Huge loss for us when they left. I'm fighting a tear in my eye. Pedro was the man. Such a class act. RIP Gary Carter. WE had such great stars in Montreal.
1994 was definitely the death knell for them, they never recovered from that as I feel that was their one chance. They also should’ve made it in 1981 though Why did they fail to have almost any success ?
@@RYMAN1321 They had an awesome team in 1994 with an great manager in Alou, nothing is ever guaranteed in baseball but in 1994 they had a team that should've at least made the fall classic. I don't live far from Washington DC where they moved to, I could never bring myself to be a fan of the Nationals, I'll remain an Orioles fan for life. I do not like when a team is moved to another state/city, we know it all to well from both sides, we lost our Baltimore Colts to then turn around and take the Browns from Cleveland, but at least Cleveland got their team back and so should Montreal.
From a Braves Fan; I hope y'all get the Expos back, in 1994 they were definitely gonna win the division over my Braves and even quite possibly win the 1994 World Series. I've visited Montreal and the interest is still around for baseball up there especially for some older fans that never got to witness a fall classic. Bring back the Expos MLB.
I used to watch the Expos with my dad when I was a kid. Hopefully the Expos will come back to Montreal somedays, so I can watch them with my son, like my dad did with me. May God have your soul dad.
I moved to Montreal in 2001 and I had never seen a professional sports game in my life. Must have gone to go a good 70 Expos' games during the next 3 years. Very enjoyable, even with the small and depressing crowds. lol
The new open has the Nationals celebrating their game 7 win, and one announcer, the expos can jump on the bandwagon, no they can, seeing you old team win it all is like you seeing your ex with her new husband.
I think MLB wanted them out of there , rumors of the team leaving town in 1991 when a beam at Olympic Stadium fell to the field and forced the team to play the rest of the schedule on the road
Echoing everyone else here, I'd love to see MLB back in Montréal. The Expos were always fun to watch. Move the Nats back to Montréal, and get those awesome Expos unis back on.
To Sir William and everyone including the EXPOS a very special thank you for a tearfully moving documentary.It was always a special party that will hopefully someday return soon.The colorful memories never fade they grow into a beautiful rainbow of nostalgia.The dream lives on one day for the EXPOS return. ar
I truly miss the Expos and I'm a Yankees fan. They werent good but lovable. That stadium brings back great memories. I think absence makes the heart grow fonder and if they ever come back people will support them more so they never leave again.
The fact that you have cities like Tampa where the fans don’t even go to the games have a team and Montreal, who had great fans, don’t have one, is a crime. As a Royals fan growing up when the Expos were around I always thought they were cool and the league just isn’t the same without them. Bring’em back! ⚜️
Nice to see the Expos here. I have an opening day program with the ticket stub of their first ever game. As a kid and a teenager I collected memorabilia which became a lifelong hobby.
Awesome vid....from awesome times....cant believe i didnt hear the name of Tim Wallach once in the whole documentary...a guy who carried the load for a looooong time (in the hard times) in Expoland...showed a lot of love to the city...staying and playing for a lot less than he could have in a big market!...best 3rd baseman in franchise history....the only bright light in town for over a decade!...super under rated....the era between the 81 team and the 94 team is dominated by Tim Wallach (1980-1992)...still awesome to revisit those memories!
I had goosebumps just watching this from beginning to end. I've been a Giants fan all my life, but as a native Montrealer, the Expos will always have a special place in my heart. I'm really hoping we get a team back here soon.
I am born and raised in San Francisco (San Carlos) but grew up an Expos fan as my mom is from Montreal. When I would go to visit my grand parents in Trois-Rivieres I would sit on my grandfathers lap and watch the Expos in french. Never missed an Expos game from 1985 to 1995 at Candlestick Park dressed in full Expos gear. While all my friends loved Will Clark the rest of the Giants I was cheering Tim Wallach and Andres EL GATO Gallaraga on like crazy. Carter was my favorite Expo of all time.
I'm a diehard Phillies fan to the core but always had so much love for the Expos. Those teams had such great talent but never seemed to put it all together until 2004. I hope one day they come back.
I absolutely LOVED the expos. As a METS fan loved seeing them come to town and they had players or ALL nationalities. Also thank you for giving us GARY CARTER
Rob Manfred needs to understand that no one will ever forget about the Expos and we need a new ball park still miss them a lot they really need to come back
@@RYMAN1321 Still I tell DC fans you stole a team from Montreal. Had they won in 1994, Washingtonians would still be driving to Baltimore to see baseball.
I was only 6 when the Expos moved to Washington and I still miss them. There was a pitcher who went to high school with my parents who went to the majors. He was drafted and debuted with the Expos and was a part of the 94 team. I’d absolutely love to see baseball back in Montreal
I see a lot of comments here from people who live in other cities but want to see baseball back in Montreal. Let me join the chorus but let me just add a quick explanation. I would like to see baseball back in Montreal. I am a first generation American, when parent was born in Canada and the other emigrated to Canada before they both came to the United States. Where it gets interesting is that they emigrated to the city where I still live, Los Angeles. I am an absolute Dodgers fan, and I was ecstatic when the Dodgers won the 1981 World Series over the Yankees. My problem had come in the National League championship series between the Dodgers and the Expos. That was one of the strangest feelings I’ve ever had in baseball. I wanted the Dodgers to win the National League championship, but I did not want the Expos to lose it. By the time it got to the last game, Game five at Olympic stadiium in Montreal at the latter stages of the game, I was sure that the expos were going to win and I started shifting away from the Dodgers and gearing up to support the Montreal expos in the World Series. Then the Rick Monday home run. I was with several friends watching that on TV, and of course everybody was screaming for the Dodgers. I did as well, but as a couple of people noticed I what is not as enthusiastic as I might have been if another team was involved. Some other people there knew of my support for the Expos. Anyway, from a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan who had an absolute respect for the Montreal Expos, I can say that I was glad the Dodgers won the World Series in 1981, but in my heart I know that should really have been the Montreal Expos, The 1981 split season because of the strike turned out to be an excellent preview of how baseball would be in the championship round just a few years later where the winner of the first half of the season in each league division played the winner of the second half. In today’s baseball, I have a feeling The Montreal Expos would have thrived in the current playoff format. They may have won their division every so often, but I certainly think if they had continued to put A good product on the field, they certainly could have obtained a wild-card slot in most years and may be gone from there to the World Series.
If the MLB decides to bring the Expos back to Montreal, it needs to be done the right way. Get them an owner who has money and is willing to spend it. Get them an actual ball park to play in, and put it right in the middle of downtown, right next to the Centre Bell if it's possible. Last but not least, they need to have a TV contract that will broadcast their games across Canada, so Expos fans won't be forced to watch Jays games all the time. Don't bring back the Expos just for the sake of bringing back the Expos, or history will just repeat itself and Washington will have a 2nd team.
Ive got an idea for the new ballpark if the expos ever come back. In center field, have a maple tree(quebec has a big maple syrup industry) and a yellow birch(the provincial tree of quebec) side by side and make it look like a quebec forest with a cabin and a lake and in the middle of the lake a massive fluer de lies in the middle that lights up with LED lights and side by side jet fountains. Above that in center field have the montreal expos hall of fame where montreal's baseball legends will ALWAYS be honored from Jackie Robinson to Vladdy and above that the worlds largest HD video board
That strike year was a disappointing time.Cleveland Indians might had something for the expos that year.What a fun world series that could of been.Great documentary miss the good ol days.
BIG thumbs up👍 for this video!!! We NEED the Expos in MLB again. I always loved their tri-colored hat and the logo. Stop forcing franchises into cities that don't appreciate baseball. Montreal is a proven sports town with a built in fan base that loved their Expos. Who else agrees with me??
Montreal was a great baseball town. They just had bad ownership running that team. Expos should come back. Miami doesn't deserve a baseball team Marlins have a nice stadium and nobody comes.
I was raised in New Jersey and Yankees were my first team but since late 70's I was an Montreal Expo fan as well. I went to a few New York Met games when was a kid just to see them play. Even saw them when Pete Rose was on the team for half a year. Expos could have easily with a few good breaks go here and there, could have won a couple of World Series and should have won a couple of them. Shame on MLB for letting them go and not doing enough to help, I dont watch many MLB games anymore, the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth. Thanks for the great upload
Byzantine41 I started as a Yankee fan myself, but I got into an incident with the Yankees a while back so I turned to another team, even though I had always been an Expos fan, I'm from Rochester NY so I grew up watching Orioles and Twins minor leagues develop into superstars, I've been an active Twins fans since the Expos left but I still havent forgotten the dynasty that could have been
I didnt know about the Expos like this till today. I saw Jackie Robinson murals in Montreal when I was up there this year, obviously a city still proud of their baseball history. I think it would be very cool to have a MTL team back (not this weird Rays mesh but their OWN). NYC, Toronto and Montreal are all basically a triangle of cities, throw in Boston and you have a weird square. You can grow the culture back easily. The North East is baseball land. This team seemed so fun and unique!
Agreed. Montreal successfully housed AAA level baseball for decades and then the Expos. Yet somehow Montreal has been given the shaft by the big-money MLB.
I don't know if they can honestly do it. It's not that I'm rooting against them, I would just be shocked. The MLB is a big money league, if you can't put up the money it's lights out for you.
I was married October 19, 1981....I watched that game on my honeymoon in NC. still married and tell my baseball friends where I was when Monday hit that dam home run!
I was 9 years old when I saw Rick Monday hit that hr on Ch 11, KTTV. Me and my grandfather watched it together. The Expos weren't the "enemy" just because they were playing the Dodgers. They were young, quirky, and exciting. Lots of great historical players. I always rooted for them. Except against the Dodgers lol.
Not sure how I never seen this before. We lost the team but the Expos provided so many great memories for Montreal sports fans. 1979 was the coming out year for the team and was great year coming up short to Bucs who went on to win World Series. Great times! but we can't go back.
There is clearly a business case to bring Expos baseball back in Montreal. The government wants to fix the stadium, the TV contracts are huge, and Montreal is a top metropolitan area in N. America. We have a long legacy of baseball in Montréal dating back to Jackie Robinson and over 100 years of professional baseball in this town. This video is proof it was once great and could be great again with the right ownership group focus on developing the Montréal market for the long term.
I was a huge 70's-80's Dodgers fan (Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Cey) that had much respect & appreciation for the Montreal Expos, which had a truly decorated & unique history with some awesome talent (Carter, Dawson & Raines I grew up loving!) The '81 NLCS that unfortunately broke the hearts of Canadians was sweet for Dodgers faithful who also had their hearts broken in 3 World Series in the '70s ('74 A's, '77 Yankees, '78 Yankees). Despite the huge significance the '81 NLCS loss served toward Expos lore & the lost WS opportunity never to be seen again, it was LA's turn & 1981 was indeed the year of "Fernandomania" & the script could not have been finer! 3 playoff comebacks for the Dodgers, defeating the Yankees in the World Series no less, and Valenzuela winning his 1st 8 starts (5 Shutouts), MLB Strikeout leader, Silver Slugger Award, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young Award & World Series Champion!
My baptism in baseball was through the late seventies Montreal Expos. I will never forget 1981 and also 1994. We really need to get a team back in Montreal!
I remember so many great like Gary Carter, Steve Rogers, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Rusty Staub, Larry Parish, Pedro Martinez, Vladimir Guerrero and so many more. I would love to see the Expos back in Major League Baseball ⚾, but as each year passes it seems like it will never happen.
When I first started getting into baseball in 1987 there were 2 teams for me. My hometown Detroit Tigers and the Montreal Expos. We used to get a New York station and of course TBS, so whenever they played the Mets or Braves I got to see them. Tim Wallach, Rock, Denny Martinez, a young Big Cat. I was a happy kid Christmas morning when I opened my Expos cap and shirt and then later a Rock Raines Starting Lineup figure. Please Manfred bring the Expos back!!!!
Ellis Valentine was my favorite Expos! One story I remember in the 77 All Star game, Valentine, Dave Parker, and Dave Winfield all took turns throwing the ball from RF. They kept moving back further and further until they reached the wall. Three of the strongest arms ever!
Thanks to this documentary I now know not to wear my Dodgers' gear if I visit Montreal some day. I better don't tell anyone in Montreal that I am from Los Angeles. I will lie and say that I am from Washington D.C. 😁😂🤣😁😂🤣 I won't talk about baseball at all.
I wish they had mentioned 2003. They had one last gasp at a playoff run, but sadly, the Puerto Rico travel and MLB blocking them from calling up their minor league players (like the other 29 teams were allowed to) killed their chances during the final month. They had a great young team. :(
Unfortunately, I was not blessed enough to be born during the time the Montreal Expos were around, heck I’m not even from Canada, but something about the Expos resonates strong inside of me, the Expos are special to me and they feel like a best friend.
It's hard not to picture a player in the expos uniform once they've been there for a year or two. It's like the expos put their stamp on a player for life
Seeing Tim Raines Andre Dawson & others in the dugout after the Game 5 Final Out reminds me how bad I felt for the Texas Rangers after the David Freese Game 6.
As a Canadian kid growing up in the 70s & 80s there was this unspoken ritual everyone followed. You learned to walk & shortly thereafter - to skate. I was no different. I started playing hockey at age 5 & quickly fell in love with the sport. If we weren't at the arena playing or practicing, we were on a pond or on the street playing. 24/7 was hockey. My young life changed forever one Saturday morning in 1980. Getting up early as usual to watch Captain Caveman, Scooby doo & Hong Kong Phooey - then head outside where all my buddies would meet up. This one morning was pouring rain & windy so we decided not to meet up. One of the 5 channels we had was ABC out of Bangor,Maine. This catchy tune starts & this voice starts to narrate highlights from major league games. I remember just sitting there in awe watching this half hour show literally 3 feet away from the giant floor model Zenith TV. Of course the show was called " This Week In Baseball ". I had seen baseball briefly before that day - with Expos, Blue Jays & occasional Red Sox games on TV. However, living in Atlantic time zone, start times was bed time unless a weekend game. I remember telling my friends about it & the next weekend the 5 of us all got together in my basement to watch this show. They were as wowed as I was. We all asked our parents to register for baseball next summer & all got new baseball gloves for Christmas. Well as it turned out, this small group of 5 kids from Canada - with the nearest MLB team a 12 hour drive away - did OK for themselves. 4 of us played on a national championship team from our hometown. 2 of us played NCAA baseball & both drafted by MLB teams in back to back years. Now I'm a proud dad with a son starting Freshman at a ranked D1 school & his younger brother following his path in 2025.
Why the hell did this team fail to have long term success? 1 playoff appearance and win (1981) within their 35 year history is just sad. Yes, who knows what 1994 would’ve brought had the season went on, but they should’ve had more winning seasons!
Montréal Colourful! YES! Thanks so much for this video! This is SO AWESOME! I keep hoping ... one day ... another "Bonsoir Montréal" when Les Expos will return!! PS: There is no one better to narrate this than William Shatner!! XOXO
As a Braves fan I miss playing the expos...I hate the nationals...I heard this year Manfred is thinking of expanding and one of those cities is Montreal...Vladimir Guerrero is the greates Expo ive seen play...what the name of that song?
Great documentary I really enjoyed it. Lifelong Giants fan. Our first victory at Pac Bell (now AT&T park) came against the Expos and I watched the Giants play them many times at Candlestick. I am surprised this documentary had no mention of Randy Johnson though
Randy Johnson was just a rookie when we traded him to Seattle for Mark Langston in an effort to actually win something. It didn't work out for us but it was one of the few trades I can remember the Expos making that actually made me think they were going all in. It sure worked out for Randy though.
Watch some of the Expos home games from the 70's through the mid 90's and the big crowds they played in front of. The Expos use to out draw the Yankees and Cubs during the 80's. Montreal cares about baseball. When Claude Brochu and his group purchased the team after 1990 they immediately started not spending money. However, the team was very good in 92 and nearly made the playoffs in 93. 1994 was devastating. Best record in baseball and 6 games up on the mighty Braves, who just moved into the National league east that season. This is baseball. You need to spend money sometimes. The firesales that followed alienated the fans. Even after 96, when the Expos came extremely close to winning the wild card( they actually choked the last week of the season because they led the Wild Card all season up to that point), another firesale. Jeffrey Loria bought the team after 1999, and all of his promises of "no longer business as usual" were all lies. He was a fraud. Then he bought the Marlins and did the same thing to them. (Yes, he won the World Series in 2003, but he inherited that team then quickly had a massive firesale, his first of many) I think the fans still cared, they just didnt show up. However, the fans also deserve some of the blame. This team was in contention in 1996, a lot of 1997, and in 2002 and 2003. Other than a few games with big crowds those seasons, the fans mostly stayed away. I completely understand their frustration and distrust, however, that would've been the time to show the teams you were behind them. I will say this, Montreal cares about baseball. MLB, mostly Bud Selig, didn't care about Montreal. Montreal deserves another team, with an owner who cares about winning, and a new downtown. Mark my word, when the Rays lease is up in Tampa Bay in a few years they will move to Montreal. BRING BACK THE EXPOS!!!
+Roberto Martinez I believe it's only a matter of time before they return and we can't wait to have our team back but I have a question for you. Manfred mentioned that Mexico might also be considered as a potential destination if MLB were to expand. Do you see this happening in the near future or are there still too many obstacles to overcome?
That was truly a beautiful gesture on Pedro’s part.
I'm a Mets fan and I miss the hell out of the Expos.
Same here. I just hate playing them cuz they play their hearts out even when they were lousy.
There’s a good chance they’ll be back by 2028
@MLB JOEY Not without a new ballpark they need to get going on th
@MLB JOEY Not without a new ballpark they need to get going on th
@MLB JOEY Not without a new ballpark they need to get going on th
R.i.p. Gary Carter..from west palm remember u when I was a kid..94 95..west palm spring training..
As a Yankees fan and a baseball fan, I would love to see baseball back in Montreal.
James Lisle same here! It's not baseball without them!
Thanks for well wishes from dave4248&JamesLisle. I lived in Montreal for 28 years. When Expos were hot, the whole city of Montreal would liven up. They were an excellent franchise. They developed so many star players, Rains, Carter, Dawson, Walker, Staub, etc... but unfortunately could not afford to pay them in the end. Part of the difficulty of having a franchise in Montreal is the inability to get a large television contract. Toronto became Canada's "national team" and most TV revenues went to the Blue Jays. Revenues for the Expos were not sufficient in the end....also, getting a new stadium is key , hopefully located downtown. The Olympic Stadium was not designed for baseball and was along subway ride away...maybe some day...Pray! P.S. Jackie Robinson played in Montreal , for Montreal Royals. So did Tommy Lasorda of the LA Dodgers....
Fellow yankees fan and I AGREE
Agreed on both, but they wouldn't have beaten us had they made the WS...
Me too...
I’m getting an Expos hat.
They did have cool hats and jerseys
I already got mine 👍🏾
I’ve had mine for many years, if I didn’t lose it when I moved about a year ago lol.
@@craigyoung4156 Until a change was made for 1992
Me too.
I miss my expos. Huge loss for us when they left. I'm fighting a tear in my eye. Pedro was the man. Such a class act. RIP Gary Carter. WE had such great stars in Montreal.
1994 was definitely the death knell for them, they never recovered from that as I feel that was their one chance. They also should’ve made it in 1981 though
Why did they fail to have almost any success ?
@@RYMAN1321 They had an awesome team in 1994 with an great manager in Alou, nothing is ever guaranteed in baseball but in 1994 they had a team that should've at least made the fall classic. I don't live far from Washington DC where they moved to, I could never bring myself to be a fan of the Nationals, I'll remain an Orioles fan for life. I do not like when a team is moved to another state/city, we know it all to well from both sides, we lost our Baltimore Colts to then turn around and take the Browns from Cleveland, but at least Cleveland got their team back and so should Montreal.
@@TheLeadSled Why not the Nationals?
Their win in 2019 was awesome though and part of me felt it avenged 1994 in a way
From a Braves Fan; I hope y'all get the Expos back, in 1994 they were definitely gonna win the division over my Braves and even quite possibly win the 1994 World Series. I've visited Montreal and the interest is still around for baseball up there especially for some older fans that never got to witness a fall classic. Bring back the Expos MLB.
Also from a Braves fan, just like the Expos out of curiosity, never alive when they were a team.
I used to watch the Expos with my dad when I was a kid. Hopefully the Expos will come back to Montreal somedays, so I can watch them with my son, like my dad did with me. May God have your soul dad.
It's only a matter of time until the Expos are back.
Not with expansion, they just had problems settling the lockout ( 2022)
Hasn't been enough time? as of 2024 it's been 20 years since the last game was played there
I moved to Montreal in 2001 and I had never seen a professional sports game in my life. Must have gone to go a good 70 Expos' games during the next 3 years. Very enjoyable, even with the small and depressing crowds. lol
Nothing funny about that, boy. Grow up, you cad..
I miss the Expos. Not a Nats fan, it just isn't the same.
Unfortunately, it looks like they just didn’t get the support they needed in Montreal
I heard their stadium was mostly empty save for 1981
The best documentary MLB network has ever made!!!
The new open has the Nationals celebrating their game 7 win, and one announcer, the expos can jump on the bandwagon, no they can, seeing you old team win it all is like you seeing your ex with her new husband.
GOD DAMN IT THIS VIDEO MADE ME BALL LIKE A BABY....I NEED...WE NEED THE EXPOS BACK. MLB YOU OWE US A TEAM!!!!
MLB needs to return to Montreal. MLB should have done something to keep the Expos in Montreal.
I think MLB wanted them out of there , rumors of the team leaving town in 1991 when a beam at Olympic Stadium fell to the field and forced the team to play the rest of the schedule on the road
I see people wearing expos caps almost every day. The team is still alive in the hearts of fans all over Canada
I have seen some in the US
Echoing everyone else here, I'd love to see MLB back in Montréal. The Expos were always fun to watch. Move the Nats back to Montréal, and get those awesome Expos unis back on.
To Sir William and everyone including the EXPOS a very special thank you for a tearfully moving documentary.It was always a special party that will hopefully someday return soon.The colorful memories never fade they grow into a beautiful rainbow of nostalgia.The dream lives on one day for the EXPOS return. ar
Dont forget Vlad Guerrero. an absolute freak. could you imagine if they keep the nucleus of the 94 team and Guerrero comes along?
Rest In Peace Gary Carter
I used to like their hats when I was a kid, reminded me of the carnival.
I truly miss the Expos and I'm a Yankees fan. They werent good but lovable. That stadium brings back great memories. I think absence makes the heart grow fonder and if they ever come back people will support them more so they never leave again.
The fact that you have cities like Tampa where the fans don’t even go to the games have a team and Montreal, who had great fans, don’t have one, is a crime. As a Royals fan growing up when the Expos were around I always thought they were cool and the league just isn’t the same without them. Bring’em back! ⚜️
Totally agree with that one and don’t forget the marlins
Nice to see the Expos here. I have an opening day program with the ticket stub of their first ever game. As a kid and a teenager I collected memorabilia which became a lifelong hobby.
Awesome vid....from awesome times....cant believe i didnt hear the name of Tim Wallach once in the whole documentary...a guy who carried the load for a looooong time (in the hard times) in Expoland...showed a lot of love to the city...staying and playing for a lot less than he could have in a big market!...best 3rd baseman in franchise history....the only bright light in town for over a decade!...super under rated....the era between the 81 team and the 94 team is dominated by Tim Wallach (1980-1992)...still awesome to revisit those memories!
I had goosebumps just watching this from beginning to end. I've been a Giants fan all my life, but as a native Montrealer, the Expos will always have a special place in my heart. I'm really hoping we get a team back here soon.
I am born and raised in San Francisco (San Carlos) but grew up an Expos fan as my mom is from Montreal. When I would go to visit my grand parents in Trois-Rivieres I would sit on my grandfathers lap and watch the Expos in french. Never missed an Expos game from 1985 to 1995 at Candlestick Park dressed in full Expos gear. While all my friends loved Will Clark the rest of the Giants I was cheering Tim Wallach and Andres EL GATO Gallaraga on like crazy. Carter was my favorite Expo of all time.
I'm a diehard Phillies fan to the core but always had so much love for the Expos. Those teams had such great talent but never seemed to put it all together until 2004. I hope one day they come back.
I absolutely LOVED the expos. As a METS fan loved seeing them come to town and they had players or ALL nationalities. Also thank you for giving us GARY CARTER
Warren Cromartie was born to entertain! So quick & funny.
One of the best uniforms ever!
Rob Manfred needs to understand that no one will ever forget about the Expos and we need a new ball park still miss them a lot they really need to come back
I give him credit for what he is currently doing
After the Nationals winning in 2019, they proved that they could get it done.
25 years later after they were robbed.
@@RYMAN1321 35 years later
@@rockvilleraven No, it was 25.
1994 to 2019 is 25 years.
And 50 if you count the Expos first coming in (1969).
@@RYMAN1321 Still I tell DC fans you stole a team from Montreal. Had they won in 1994, Washingtonians would still be driving to Baltimore to see baseball.
The Expos come back, they become one of my favorite teams. LETS GO EXPOS!!!!!
Not with expansion
Even though I grew up a Jays fan, I always had a soft spot for the expos, they were fun.
Same here
I was only 6 when the Expos moved to Washington and I still miss them. There was a pitcher who went to high school with my parents who went to the majors. He was drafted and debuted with the Expos and was a part of the 94 team. I’d absolutely love to see baseball back in Montreal
I see a lot of comments here from people who live in other cities but want to see baseball back in Montreal. Let me join the chorus but let me just add a quick explanation.
I would like to see baseball back in Montreal. I am a first generation American, when parent was born in Canada and the other emigrated to Canada before they both came to the United States.
Where it gets interesting is that they emigrated to the city where I still live, Los Angeles. I am an absolute Dodgers fan, and I was ecstatic when the Dodgers won the 1981 World Series over the Yankees. My problem had come in the National League championship series between the Dodgers and the Expos. That was one of the strangest feelings I’ve ever had in baseball. I wanted the Dodgers to win the National League championship, but I did not want the Expos to lose it. By the time it got to the last game, Game five at Olympic stadiium in Montreal at the latter stages of the game, I was sure that the expos were going to win and I started shifting away from the Dodgers and gearing up to support the Montreal expos in the World Series. Then the Rick Monday home run. I was with several friends watching that on TV, and of course everybody was screaming for the Dodgers. I did as well, but as a couple of people noticed I what is not as enthusiastic as I might have been if another team was involved. Some other people there knew of my support for the Expos.
Anyway, from a lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan who had an absolute respect for the Montreal Expos, I can say that I was glad the Dodgers won the World Series in 1981, but in my heart I know that should really have been the Montreal Expos,
The 1981 split season because of the strike turned out to be an excellent preview of how baseball would be in the championship round just a few years later where the winner of the first half of the season in each league division played the winner of the second half. In today’s baseball, I have a feeling The Montreal Expos would have thrived in the current playoff format. They may have won their division every so often, but I certainly think if they had continued to put A good product on the field, they certainly could have obtained a wild-card slot in most years and may be gone from there to the World Series.
If the MLB decides to bring the Expos back to Montreal, it needs to be done the right way. Get them an owner who has money and is willing to spend it. Get them an actual ball park to play in, and put it right in the middle of downtown, right next to the Centre Bell if it's possible. Last but not least, they need to have a TV contract that will broadcast their games across Canada, so Expos fans won't be forced to watch Jays games all the time. Don't bring back the Expos just for the sake of bringing back the Expos, or history will just repeat itself and Washington will have a 2nd team.
Ive got an idea for the new ballpark if the expos ever come back.
In center field, have a maple tree(quebec has a big maple syrup industry) and a yellow birch(the provincial tree of quebec) side by side and make it look like a quebec forest with a cabin and a lake and in the middle of the lake a massive fluer de lies in the middle that lights up with LED lights and side by side jet fountains. Above that in center field have the montreal expos hall of fame where montreal's baseball legends will ALWAYS be honored from Jackie Robinson to Vladdy and above that the worlds largest HD video board
Had 1994 or 1981 happened in the way it should, DC area baseball fans would still be driving up to Camden Yards.
Plus have youppi as their mascot
Give the Rays 6 years
That strike year was a disappointing time.Cleveland Indians might had something for the expos that year.What a fun world series that could of been.Great documentary miss the good ol days.
I love watching this it changed my mind about baseball in Montreal
I love Montréal and the wonderful people deserve to have their baseball team back
R.I.P. Le Grand Orange, always in our hearths
BIG thumbs up👍 for this video!!! We NEED the Expos in MLB again. I always loved their tri-colored hat and the logo. Stop forcing franchises into cities that don't appreciate baseball. Montreal is a proven sports town with a built in fan base that loved their Expos. Who else agrees with me??
Why didn’t they have any playoff success though (minus 1981)?
I had an old baseball video game in prob 2002 you could pick certain teams from certain eras...
The 94' Expos were the Best..!
What a franchise! Vladi, Larry! Miss the expos! Mlb, if Miami has a franchise! Come on!
Montreal was a great baseball town. They just had bad ownership running that team. Expos should come back. Miami doesn't deserve a baseball team
Marlins have a nice stadium and nobody comes.
I was raised in New Jersey and Yankees were my first team but since late 70's I was an Montreal Expo fan as well. I went to a few New York Met games when was a kid just to see them play. Even saw them when Pete Rose was on the team for half a year. Expos could have easily with a few good breaks go here and there, could have won a couple of World Series and should have won a couple of them. Shame on MLB for letting them go and not doing enough to help, I dont watch many MLB games anymore, the whole thing left a sour taste in my mouth. Thanks for the great upload
Byzantine41 I started as a Yankee fan myself, but I got into an incident with the Yankees a while back so I turned to another team, even though I had always been an Expos fan, I'm from Rochester NY so I grew up watching Orioles and Twins minor leagues develop into superstars, I've been an active Twins fans since the Expos left but I still havent forgotten the dynasty that could have been
Rose would get his 4000th hit as an Expo.
I didnt know about the Expos like this till today. I saw Jackie Robinson murals in Montreal when I was up there this year, obviously a city still proud of their baseball history. I think it would be very cool to have a MTL team back (not this weird Rays mesh but their OWN). NYC, Toronto and Montreal are all basically a triangle of cities, throw in Boston and you have a weird square. You can grow the culture back easily. The North East is baseball land. This team seemed so fun and unique!
I'm also proud that UCLA named their baseball stadium after Robinson.
No other thing defined my childhood like the Expos. 94 was heartbreaking.
When the mascot gets thrown out you know you got something special.
My old baseball coach played for the 1990-94 expos! So appreciative to have been coached by him!
Yes,we had some great moments with the Expos in Montreal.Great times.
Mlb needs team back in Montreal
Yes!
and call it Le Expos
they will return
Agreed. Montreal successfully housed AAA level baseball for decades and then the Expos. Yet somehow Montreal has been given the shaft by the big-money MLB.
I don't know if they can honestly do it. It's not that I'm rooting against them, I would just be shocked. The MLB is a big money league, if you can't put up the money it's lights out for you.
I was married October 19, 1981....I watched that game on my honeymoon in NC. still married and tell my baseball friends where I was when Monday hit that dam home run!
Blue Monday from none other than Rick Monday
I was 9 years old when I saw Rick Monday hit that hr on Ch 11, KTTV. Me and my grandfather watched it together. The Expos weren't the "enemy" just because they were playing the Dodgers. They were young, quirky, and exciting. Lots of great historical players. I always rooted for them. Except against the Dodgers lol.
Not sure how I never seen this before. We lost the team but the Expos provided so many great memories for Montreal sports fans. 1979 was the coming out year for the team and was great year coming up short to Bucs who went on to win World Series. Great times! but we can't go back.
One of the greatest baseball town ever
WAS a great baseball town, until 1995
There is clearly a business case to bring Expos baseball back in Montreal. The government wants to fix the stadium, the TV contracts are huge, and Montreal is a top metropolitan area in N. America. We have a long legacy of baseball in Montréal dating back to Jackie Robinson and over 100 years of professional baseball in this town. This video is proof it was once great and could be great again with the right ownership group focus on developing the Montréal market for the long term.
Absolutely fantastic video........makes me want to buy a Expos Hat!!!!!!
+Damon Davis i watched this and bought an authentic rawlings expos helmet XD
In the 80's the Expos were bigger than the Canadiens. But damm , that Rick Monday still gets me.
Dick Williams probably laughed his ass off seeing Steve Rogers give that home run up.
But not in the 70s Canadiens won 6 Stanley Cups in the decade
@@michaelleroy9281 thanks for pointing that out .Only u knew that . Jesus man we're talking bout the 80's here.
I was a huge 70's-80's Dodgers fan (Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Cey) that had much respect & appreciation for the Montreal Expos, which had a truly decorated & unique history with some awesome talent (Carter, Dawson & Raines I grew up loving!) The '81 NLCS that unfortunately broke the hearts of Canadians was sweet for Dodgers faithful who also had their hearts broken in 3 World Series in the '70s ('74 A's, '77 Yankees, '78 Yankees).
Despite the huge significance the '81 NLCS loss served toward Expos lore & the lost WS opportunity never to be seen again, it was LA's turn & 1981 was indeed the year of "Fernandomania" & the script could not have been finer! 3 playoff comebacks for the Dodgers, defeating the Yankees in the World Series no less, and Valenzuela winning his 1st 8 starts (5 Shutouts), MLB Strikeout leader, Silver Slugger Award, Rookie of the Year, Cy Young Award & World Series Champion!
My baptism in baseball was through the late seventies Montreal Expos. I will never forget 1981 and also 1994. We really need to get a team back in Montreal!
1979, 1980, 1989, 1993, 1996, and 2003 were also very close years for postseason runs
@@ExposClassics94 1979 and 1980 they lost the division on the last day or next to last day
That 1994 team could've been special if not for the strike.
I remember so many great like Gary Carter, Steve Rogers, Andre Dawson, Tim Raines, Rusty Staub, Larry Parish, Pedro Martinez, Vladimir Guerrero and so many more. I would love to see the Expos back in Major League Baseball ⚾, but as each year passes it seems like it will never happen.
Man oh man I miss these guys....
Classy figures!
When I first started getting into baseball in 1987 there were 2 teams for me. My hometown Detroit Tigers and the Montreal Expos. We used to get a New York station and of course TBS, so whenever they played the Mets or Braves I got to see them. Tim Wallach, Rock, Denny Martinez, a young Big Cat. I was a happy kid Christmas morning when I opened my Expos cap and shirt and then later a Rock Raines Starting Lineup figure. Please Manfred bring the Expos back!!!!
Always loved the uniforms.
Ellis Valentine was my favorite Expos! One story I remember in the 77 All Star game, Valentine, Dave Parker, and Dave Winfield all took turns throwing the ball from RF. They kept moving back further and further until they reached the wall. Three of the strongest arms ever!
Valentine had the strongest arm ever.
Thanks to this documentary I now know not to wear my Dodgers' gear if I visit Montreal some day. I better don't tell anyone in Montreal that I am from Los Angeles. I will lie and say that I am from Washington D.C. 😁😂🤣😁😂🤣 I won't talk about baseball at all.
I wish they had mentioned 2003. They had one last gasp at a playoff run, but sadly, the Puerto Rico travel and MLB blocking them from calling up their minor league players (like the other 29 teams were allowed to) killed their chances during the final month. They had a great young team. :(
When the Expos got rid of the cool, and fun uniforms, the fans started staying away.
That was 1992
Viva Montreal!!!! From a dominican guy's hart...
Very touching the part with Pedro and the win
Unfortunately, I was not blessed enough to be born during the time the Montreal Expos were around, heck I’m not even from Canada, but something about the Expos resonates strong inside of me, the Expos are special to me and they feel like a best friend.
It's hard not to picture a player in the expos uniform once they've been there for a year or two. It's like the expos put their stamp on a player for life
Seeing Tim Raines Andre Dawson & others in the dugout after the Game 5 Final Out reminds me how bad I felt for the Texas Rangers after the David Freese Game 6.
Down to their final strike TWICE and the ball sailed just out of Nelson Cruz' reach. The Rangers were that close, inches away from a championship.
Oh, man. That Gary Carter moment where he got a last hurrah with the Expos. Chills.
They should make a high tech, elegant stadium and bring them back.
Warren Cromartie is hilarious!
Not a Star Trek fan, so I never knew TJ Hooker, was from Montreal!
I see him as Denny Crane. He stole the show on Boston Legal.
As a Dodger fan, PLEASE PLEASE BRING BASEBALL BACK TO MONTREAL!!! I missed that hype in Montreal in the 90's!!
Those 3-4 game series' were a blast! Blue monday to el presidente's perfecto
As a Canadian kid growing up in the 70s & 80s there was this unspoken ritual everyone followed. You learned to walk & shortly thereafter - to skate. I was no different. I started playing hockey at age 5 & quickly fell in love with the sport. If we weren't at the arena playing or practicing, we were on a pond or on the street playing. 24/7 was hockey.
My young life changed forever one Saturday morning in 1980. Getting up early as usual to watch Captain Caveman, Scooby doo & Hong Kong Phooey - then head outside where all my buddies would meet up. This one morning was pouring rain & windy so we decided not to meet up. One of the 5 channels we had was ABC out of Bangor,Maine. This catchy tune starts & this voice starts to narrate highlights from major league games. I remember just sitting there in awe watching this half hour show literally 3 feet away from the giant floor model Zenith TV. Of course the show was called " This Week In Baseball ".
I had seen baseball briefly before that day - with Expos, Blue Jays & occasional Red Sox games on TV. However, living in Atlantic time zone, start times was bed time unless a weekend game.
I remember telling my friends about it & the next weekend the 5 of us all got together in my basement to watch this show. They were as wowed as I was. We all asked our parents to register for baseball next summer & all got new baseball gloves for Christmas.
Well as it turned out, this small group of 5 kids from Canada - with the nearest MLB team a 12 hour drive away - did OK for themselves. 4 of us played on a national championship team from our hometown. 2 of us played NCAA baseball & both drafted by MLB teams in back to back years.
Now I'm a proud dad with a son starting Freshman at a ranked D1 school & his younger brother following his path in 2025.
Why the hell did this team fail to have long term success?
1 playoff appearance and win (1981) within their 35 year history is just sad.
Yes, who knows what 1994 would’ve brought had the season went on, but they should’ve had more winning seasons!
As a Dodgers fan, I fondly remember Blue Monday...I was listening to the homerun call on a bus...going to our JV game
Please bring baseball back to Montreal!
Fun fact, the Minnesota Twins made their first and last trip to Montreal in 2004 and swept a 3 game series
I love this please please keep these coming i miss the expos
You got it!
I’m a Jays fan, I would love to see the Expos come back and play the Jays in Montreal! It’ll be better paying them on Canada day!
Huge Dodgers fan here but I need to get myself an Expos hat cause it’s crazy that they were once a baseball team. ⚾️
Montréal Colourful! YES! Thanks so much for this video! This is SO AWESOME! I keep hoping ... one day ... another "Bonsoir Montréal" when Les Expos will return!! PS: There is no one better to narrate this than William Shatner!! XOXO
I would have liked to see Dave Van Horne narrate a bit of this or even a full future documentary, but William Shatner bid an excellent job
+Expos Classics. Great idea about Dave Van Horne, but it was great to see a Montréaler like William Shatner do a great job :)
Watching this just about makes me cry.
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Baltimore does the tri colored hat and it’s awesome just like the Expos hat
As a Braves fan I miss playing the expos...I hate the nationals...I heard this year Manfred is thinking of expanding and one of those cities is Montreal...Vladimir Guerrero is the greates Expo ive seen play...what the name of that song?
The "Happy Wanderer" aka the Valderi, Valdera song..
@@andrewpadaetz5549 Better than that crappy "Baby Shark" song.
Yeah I'm a Phillies fan and I agree. Nats are boring I really wish they'd move back.
Not without a new ballpark
Oil Can Boyd... Greatest name in all of professional sports ever!
I hated going to that stadium, but I loved that team.
Whispers (Move the Rays to Montreal and change their name)
call them the X-Rays
As a Tampanian, I'm all for the move
No,I think the Rays must stay in Tampa
They have until 2027 to do something about it
Great documentary I really enjoyed it. Lifelong Giants fan. Our first victory at Pac Bell (now AT&T park) came against the Expos and I watched the Giants play them many times at Candlestick. I am surprised this documentary had no mention of Randy Johnson though
Randy Johnson was just a rookie when we traded him to Seattle for Mark Langston in an effort to actually win something. It didn't work out for us but it was one of the few trades I can remember the Expos making that actually made me think they were going all in. It sure worked out for Randy though.
Watch some of the Expos home games from the 70's through the mid 90's and the big crowds they played in front of. The Expos use to out draw the Yankees and Cubs during the 80's. Montreal cares about baseball. When Claude Brochu and his group purchased the team after 1990 they immediately started not spending money. However, the team was very good in 92 and nearly made the playoffs in 93. 1994 was devastating. Best record in baseball and 6 games up on the mighty Braves, who just moved into the National league east that season. This is baseball. You need to spend money sometimes. The firesales that followed alienated the fans. Even after 96, when the Expos came extremely close to winning the wild card( they actually choked the last week of the season because they led the Wild Card all season up to that point), another firesale. Jeffrey Loria bought the team after 1999, and all of his promises of "no longer business as usual" were all lies. He was a fraud. Then he bought the Marlins and did the same thing to them. (Yes, he won the World Series in 2003, but he inherited that team then quickly had a massive firesale, his first of many) I think the fans still cared, they just didnt show up. However, the fans also deserve some of the blame. This team was in contention in 1996, a lot of 1997, and in 2002 and 2003. Other than a few games with big crowds those seasons, the fans mostly stayed away. I completely understand their frustration and distrust, however, that would've been the time to show the teams you were behind them. I will say this, Montreal cares about baseball. MLB, mostly Bud Selig, didn't care about Montreal. Montreal deserves another team, with an owner who cares about winning, and a new downtown. Mark my word, when the Rays lease is up in Tampa Bay in a few years they will move to Montreal. BRING BACK THE EXPOS!!!
This show is great, I've learned a lot on Baseball's past ,kkuudos
Great Program I hope baseball back to Montreal, QC a mexican Blue Jays fan good luck Expos coming soon in MLB one more time
+Roberto Martinez I believe it's only a matter of time before they return and we can't wait to have our team back but I have a question for you. Manfred mentioned that Mexico might also be considered as a potential destination if MLB were to expand. Do you see this happening in the near future or are there still too many obstacles to overcome?
In All Star Baseball 2005 The Expos Ironically Are Featured I Wonder How That Happened If The Washington Nationals Exist
CrzyCanuck76 for fans, for stadium its possible. for difference between USD & mexican peso isn't possible
CrzyCanuck76 I Can See That Happening In The Future
I hope Montreal Expos come back soon toMlb
Enrique Walter Castañeda I want it as bad as everyone else
@@ExposClassics94 im young and i already love you guys this would be amazing
Blue Jays fan here and I hope you guys get back your team.
Gary Carter passed away? 😥
Rest in Peace, old friend.
I'm a White Sox fan and a Mets fan and I was a big fan of the Expos I got their hat so glad I got it