Toronto Blue Jays Want to be Canada's Team on Montreal Radio

The Blue Jays are pursuing a possible radio deal on a local radio station, the Team 990, to gain a foothold in the Montreal market.

Besides the sickening concept of Canada's second team taking advantage of the demise of the Expos, what makes this attempt all the more shocking is that the Blue Jays, owned by Rogers Communication, voted inexplicably in favor to contract the Expos a couple of years back! The utter arrogance and shame in this is immeasurable. That's the Canadian way. Never defend each other's interests. Never rise and take a stand.

I did not mind when the Jays won back-to-back World Series in the 90s. I would have preferred that the Expos did it but it was nice to see the World Series internationalize a little. It is unfortunate, to sway a little off topic, that baseball never had an international tournament pitting the best from Japan, Cuba, Dominican Republic, the United States and Canada. In this respect, hockey has a richer tradition of international competition closer to soccer and basketball.

In any event, to get back on the Blue Jays, will their attempts work? Personally, I won't listen out of principle. I doubt many French-Canadian ball fans will either. There's a limit to accepting bad luck and Montreal baseball fans have had to endure one too many. Toronto is looking to seize and capitalize on someone else's misfortune. I understand the business angle and what they are doing is logical. They just should have sided with the Expos shoulder to shoulder. That is just too much to digest.

We'll probably hear some Jays games on the radio. Life goes on. But the ghosts of Nos Amours will haunt the Jays as their conscience will get the better of them just like a haunting Edgar Allan Poe short story. We have our own history and don't wish for a back up backstory.