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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4000719, member: 1969"] [B]Part 2 - The 1990's[/B] As we enter the 1990's the Expos are considered to have one of the best farm systems in baseball. In the 1989 and 1990 season young talent like Grissom, Walker, Deshields would make the team and start an exciting direction that will lead to modest contention as early as 1992. They also have 1) The Worst Stadium in Baseball 2) The Worst Ownership Group in Baseball. [B] 1990 Offseason - Tim Raines is the problem - let's trade him for freaking Ivan Calderon and save $1million.[/B] in 1990 the Expos go a decent 85-77 with 89 pyth wins. From 1987-1989 the cheap ass Expos may have done one of the best jobs ever at scraping the garbage bin. They picked up 3 recovering drug addicts that nobody wanted in Dennis Martinez, Pascual Perez, and Oil Can Boyd. They helped those teams be passable and of course all left for greener pastures later on. But after a positive 1990 season they decided to trade Tim Raines for freaking Ivan Calderon. [B]1989/1990 - The "Retractable" Roof Finally Works... oh wait it doesn't[/B] In 1989 I was "lucky" enough to go to the first game that the Expos lifted the "retractable" roof for a baseball game. It was also memorable for being Larry Walker's first ever MLB game. The Expos had so much confidence in the roof that when they started opening it an hour before the game they made sure every fan in the bottom level move up to a higher level for safety reasons! And before the 1989 the roof would stop working. I think they fixed it again for a few games in 1990, but the damn thing screwed up again, Finally they had to decide permanent roof or no roof. They chose permanent roof. In bright Orange. Because bright Orange will work well with the Yellow and Blue Seats, and Green Turf. [B] 1991 - The Big Owe Falls Apart.. Literally[/B] 1991 was a bad season. Made worse by the fact that a large piece of the exterior of the Big Owe, crashed to the ground in September. The team played on the road for all of September. [B] 1993 - My Favourite Season as a Baseball Fan[/B] Nothing bad happened this year. Things started to really go right, the Expos won 94 games and nearly won the division. I went to about 15 games that year, including three memorable ones in September. Nothing embarrassing happened to the Expos that year. Things were looking bright for 1994. Off course in that offseason many of us Expos fans were pissed that we traded a very good second baseman Delino Deshields for Pedro Martinez. How wrong we were. [B] 1994 - Best Team in Baseball. @@@@ the Playoffs. Let's Strike[/B] To be continued. [/QUOTE]

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