Youppi! is sleeping/Youppi! dort

Alas, Youppi! Unable To Shout 'Yippee!' (washingtonpost.com):

"Somewhere 500 miles away in a drab and fading office, tucked into a handful of giant duffel bags, lays the last tangible asset of the Montreal Expos. Its orange fur and giant nose have been carefully preserved, zipped into a sealed environment safe from moths and scavengers. And there it will remain until the lawyers can finally resolve its fate."

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Youppi/Youppi

ESPN.com: Page 2 : The Curse of Jimmy Fallon:

"September 15: Filthy, half naked and covered in track marks, Youppi!'s head is discovered in a gutter in Montreal's red light district, suffering from a heroine overdose."

[Via Karen]

Win Some, Lose Some/En Gagnez, En Perdez

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Whose Team Am I On?:

"And yet we are the playthings of fate and lead lives filled with strange twists, and I (for it is time to throw off the artfully constructed mask) now find myself contemplating the uncontemplatable: that I will switch my allegiance from the beloved Mets to the new team of my adopted town. I will become a fan of the Washington Nationals."

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Tuques/Tuques

maisonneuve :: eclectic curiosity

"(including 25,000 Montreal Expos toques, costing $36,000—an investment, perhaps; if only they’d waited a few years until they were a collector’s item)."

Man, that was a great promotion.

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Elsewhere/Ailleurs

Baseball Notebook: Twins pitcher wins arbitration opener:

"Elsewhere

The lawsuit by the former limited partners of the Montreal Expos against former owner Jeffrey Loria was dismissed when a federal judge approved an arbitration panel's ruling. If the former limited partners had prevailed, they would have sought an injunction to block the Expos' move to Washington."

Interesting that the Expos aren't even from a place anymore. They're apparently from a town that no one can remember now.

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Seems wrong/Semble faux

Google Search: les expos:

MLB just doesn't see the disconnect, or so I think because they co-opted montrealexpos.com for the Nats web page. Go get your own damn page. And let montrealexpos.com be about the history of the team.

Why you got to play like this? It seems rotten all over.



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Youppi! is alive and well/Youppi! est vivant et bon

ESPN.com: Page 2 - Youppi! is alive and well:

"Now, six figures sounds like a lot for a clumsy guy with big feet and orange fur, but that's less than the Seattle Mariners recently paid for Richie Sexson -- and Youppi! is nearly as tall. Plus, as Mariners marketing whiz Kevin Martinez points out, in today's bloated mascot market, 'That's a steal.'"

Well, thank goodness others are thinking about him too.

[Also, please excuse my linking to Jim "Yankee-hater" Caple.]

Later.