How MLB Killed the Montreal Expos

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Could the Montreal Expos' return be imminent? Brodie Brazil explores a serious bid to bring back the team, examining the proposal's feasibility and the complex process. An interview with a key figure behind the initiative promises insights into their ambitious plan.

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Olympic Stadium still towers over Montreal—but the team it was built to save is long gone. The Stadium That Killed the Montreal Expos is a 20-minute investigative documentary about how a bold architectural promise quietly turned into one of baseball’s most painful failures. The Expos began as a vibrant, intimate team at Jarry Park, growing a devoted fanbase that felt close to the field and close to each other. Then came Olympic Stadium: bigger, louder in theory, and meant to secure Montreal’s place in Major League Baseball forever.

Instead, the cavernous concrete structure created distance—between fans and the game, between players and the city, and eventually between the franchise and its future. Leaking roofs, crushing debt, empty seats, and a lost 1994 season all unfolded inside a building that never felt like home. As hope faded, the stadium amplified every problem until the Expos became a team without a center, splitting seasons, shedding stars, and finally leaving Montreal altogether.

This film isn’t just about a relocation. It’s about how space, scale, and atmosphere can shape a franchise’s fate. The Expos disappeared, but Olympic Stadium remains—massive, immovable, and full of unanswered questions.

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The 1994 baseball strike ruined baseball for many, but it straight up killed the Montreal Expos. We're giving them a second chance.

We're the Dugs and like to think of ourselves as an off kilter and half drunk version of Sportscenter. Everything we do is an excuse to tell a lot of baseball stories and a lot of jokes.

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I Watched Who Killed The Montreal Expos? (2025, Dir. by Jean-François Poisson)

Posted on March 10, 2026 by Dazzling Erin



Who Killed The Montreal Expos? is a documentary about the first major league baseball franchise to be located outside of the United States. From 1969 to 2004, the Expos played in Montreal, Canada. The documentary shows how the Expos became a source of pride for the people of Montreal and how it also became a source of one of their greatest heartbreaks when, after years of financial mismanagement, it relocated and became the Washington Nationals.

I guess one reason why I could relate to this documentary was because, before they got the Nationals, Washington had two baseball teams known as the Senators. The first Senators moved to Milwaukee in 1961 and became the Twins. The second team to be known as the Senators relocated in 1971 and became my team, the Texas Rangers. Sometimes, it’s hard for me to believe that my beloved Rangers once had a different name and played for a different city. I can’t imagine how much it would hurt if the Rangers ever announced that they were leaving Texas. But, as the Expos showed in 2004 and as the Chicago Bears are showing right now, even the most storied of franchises can relocate.

Who Killed The Montreal Expos? offers a lot of theories of what led to Montreal’s team leaving from Washington D.C. A players strike in 1994 ended a season that could have taken the Expos to the World Series. In 1995, several bad trades led to the Expos going from being the best team in the league to the worst. The team was in need of a new stadium but could never seem to raise the funds to build one. The documentary puts most of the blame on the second-to-last owner, an American who a lot of people think was planning to move the team all along. In the end, it doesn’t seem like there was just one reason for the Expos leaving Montreal. It was a perfect storm of hardships and mistakes and, unfortunately, it was the baseball fans of Montreal who suffered.

I don’t know who’s to blame. I just know it hurts when your team leaves. Montreal, I hope your Expos return soon! And I pray my Rangers never leave Texas.

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Explore the chaotic history of Montreal's Olympic Stadium, an architectural ambition that spiraled into a decades-long saga of engineering failures, massive cost overruns, and bizarre incidents. This deep dive uncovers why a venue plagued by structural disasters and constant construction remains a persistent, albeit baffling, fixture of the city.

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Why is MLB NOT discussing Montreal Expansion?

Play ball! Join us as we count down the top cities competing for the next Major League Baseball franchise! From the high-altitude ambitions of Mexico City to the clean-cut bid of Salt Lake City, we're breaking down which markets have the demographics, capital, and political backing to score 23 ownership votes and land an MLB expansion team. Which city do YOU think deserves a team?