blue tuesday...

it ain't over till it's over...it's deja vu all over again...when you come to a fork in the road....take it



here's something you don't hear very often. i am, now was, a montreal expos fan... forget about the "great team" of the strike shortened season of 1994, i remember fondly the days of gary carter, andre dawson, tim raines, steve rogers, warren cromartie, bill "spaceman" lee. those expos were fun to watch. plenty of power, speed and attitude.



they won the penant in the strike-shortened season of 1981. in a 5 game series against the LA dodgers, they were within one game of making it to the world series that year. i remember being glued to the tv for that fateful game 5. when dodgers' rick "blue" monday knocked the ball outta the ballpark in the ninth inning, it crushed any hopes of making baseball history. i like all other expos fans will never forget what transpired that night.

i wasn't here for the 1994 season but i saw a news clip today taken the day the league shut down the season. the expos were far ahead of any team in either league at that point. yet, in a non-"emo" way, each expo player backed the union and brushed off the season. such is the state of post-modern day sports.

i can see why 1994 became the quintessential year in expos history. the train tracks to hell were greased once again. no one, particularly the fans, cared after the debacle of the 1994 strike. the club's core talent was sold off or given away bit by bit, year after year.

there's plenty of blame to pass around including an idiotic, jackass, parasitic, turncoat "owner", n incompetent baseball commissioner, and ultimately, the fans.

it's been a long 3 years since the ownership reverted to the league. 3 years is a long time to wait for the demise of the team. i'm kind of relieved that it's finally over. i'm at peace...

tonight was the last home game of the season. the expos were smoked 9-1 vs. the florida marlins. the game wasn't televised. what a fitting end...

pierre pettigrew is a hump...



i can't believe this guy. he's in haiti "assessing" the destruction wreaked by a recent tropical storm. watching the news, the situation in haiti looks like hell. foreign aid is not reaching the disaster area, stymied by washed away infrastructure and armed robbery by gangs of thugs.



the minister of foreign affairs came to the conclusion that we should not send in canadian emergency response teams because: 1) they're deemed too expensive to deploy, and 2) haitian officials did not ask for them. well, 1) what the hell do we use these teams for, if not for emergencies in god foresaken places like haiti? and 2) did we offer to send these response teams? it's difficult to imagine the haitian government turning down help.