Its official, the Toronto Blue Jays will host two more preseason games in Montreal in 2015. The Olympic stadium will host the two games April 3-4, with the Cincinnati Reds as the visiting team. Last year when the Blue Jays faced the New York Mets almost 100 000 fans showed up to the two games and this time they expect to get numbers close to that in 2015.
Montreal to Host Two MLB Preseason Games in 2015
As we all know Montreal used to be the home town to the Expos who moved to Washington after the 2004 MLB season. This year was the first time in ten years that the city was host to Major League baseball games and it was an overwhelming success. During the games this year the 1994 Expos were honoured as well as the late great Gary Carter.
What may are hoping for this time, is the Expos honoring players like Vladimir Guerrero, Orlando Cabrera, Tim Raines as well as Andre Dawson who was inducted in the MLB Hall of Fame in 2010 was never properly honored in Montreal. At these games Montreal could finally honor him.
Once again it is a way for the Toronto Blue Jays to expand their market in Montreal and Quebec, while Montreal baseball fans and Expos fans will flock to the Big O to show MLB that they want baseball back in Montreal again. Many groups that support baseball in Montreal, like the Montreal Baseball Project and Expos Nartion will most likely help with promoting these games and get people excited to show their support in bringing back a team, I know I will. Hopefully the Blue Jays understand that majority of the people that will be going, are people who are trying to show the league that the city wants a team to call our own again.
Bringing the Reds to Montreal is also a great idea, seeing as it is a way to showcase one of the best Canadian players in Major League baseball, Joey Votto. Fans will have to hope he stays healthy during spring training. Whatever will happen, in the end it will be a joyous occasion and if its anything like the two games last March it will be really exciting.
Tickets are set to go on sale at noon on the 8th of November and the tickets will range from 84$-19$ according to the Evenko website. I hope Montreal fans fill up the Big O again next year, it would be another great statement to the MLB that this city wants baseball back and after the results in 2014, I feel that more people from Major League Baseball will be keeping an eye on these games.
Nick’s Note:
The 2014 MLB playoffs should win an award, especially the Kansas City Royals, I hadn’t enjoyed watching the MLB postseason like this in a long time. Teams should take notes from these playoffs and find a way to bottle it up, it was exciting, dramatic, emotional and went down to the last out and that is how the playoffs should be. I was sad to see the Royals lose after such a great run, but they lost to a great Giants team (who funny enough I said in June would win it all, don’t believe me check out my article from then) it also showed us that anything can happen, you just need to make it to the fall classic first. Congratulations to Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants on winning the 2014 World Series and to the Kansas City Royals who showed us what really exciting baseball games were like.
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