For The Next 2 Seasons, The Mets Will Spend Like The Expos

Picture Jean Talon Metro Stop in Montreal. It's a mild summer evening, as crowds of Expos Fans, Jam onto the 30 Bus to Parc Jarry, in 1973:

Fast-Forward to 1997, as crowds to Olympic Stadium, drop off DRAMATICALLY, as ownership traded off Pedro Martinez for some dude named Carl Pavano, in December of that year. Metro Stop at Isle Ste. Helene was as busy as some stop called Willets Point Blvd, was in 1978(NOT);

Keep going for the scrap heap was the philosophy of that ownership. It was a 3rd World Mentality in a "Premiere Classe" City. Piss 'em off & they won't come, unless there's a new ball park in the works;

XM Satellite Radio ought to play "O Canada, Terre De Nos Aieux" as an 8th Inning Sing-A-Long @ Shea Stadium. Why? Why not, as Boston Red Sox Favorite, "Sweet Caroline", was expropriated for use in the Middle of Nowhere To Party, such where Shea Stadium is located;

The Mets Come close & one would think that even more help would be coming, but there was as much action as from a constipated person on a toilet bowl, so similar to what fans of the Expos experienced, from the hands of ghastly ownerships;

So Fred & Jeff are reviving "Les Expos De Montreal" in Grandoise Fashion, while holding a "Fab Freddie's Ball Park Fundraiser", with much higher prices;

"Where Have You Gone, Nelly Doubleday? Mets Nation Turns Their Lonely Eyes To You, Boo Hoo Hoo, Boo Hoo Hoo?"

At the Risk of sounding like 2 Forest Hills Guys named Simon & Garfunkel, I can't help myself, but to mock The Wilpons, who think that Mets Fans are idiots;

I can't wait until "Parc Jarry II", I mean, Citi Field, opens for business. Until then, "Allons Les Expos", or "Let's Go Expos" will be my "Chanson";

& Omar Minaya, a true Baseball Genius, has to work under 3rd World Conditions Like This. Only he could be GM of Both versions of the Expos;

Mike