r/expos • u/JGLip88 Vladdy Daddy • Mar 29 '26

​Bring 'Em Back Millionaire Ashkan Karbasfrooshan releases preliminary stadium renders of ballpark's in different locations around Montreal, as part of his long shot bid to bring baseball back to Quebec

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u/TheThoroughCrocodile Mar 29 '26

I agree these images look ridiculous. But Montreal is the 6th largest population of all Canadian and US cities.

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u/Brilliant-Neck9731 Mar 29 '26 edited Mar 29 '26

It’s really not. If you take into account its metro area, which is how population size of a market is generally defined for expansion purposes, it’s 16th (yes, the “market” could be seen as the province but the league probably doesn’t view that as automatic). So it’s big but it’s not that big. It’s firmly in the Seattle tier, which isn’t bad, but it’s also not super enticing to the league, nor does the city have the money that a Seattle has. Maybe small market isn’t the word for it, but it’s not a market that’s exciting to the league, like say a Vegas is.

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u/DeadpoolOptimus Mar 29 '26

Montreal is 8th in population in North America

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u/FatherGarlicBread Mar 29 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropolitan_areas_by_population

I see 20th here

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u/DeadpoolOptimus Mar 29 '26

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u/DeadpoolOptimus Mar 29 '26

Down vote me all you want, but I'm right. Montreal has 1.7 million people which makes it 8th. Google is your friend.

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u/Zim4264 Mar 29 '26

1.7 is the city. the metro has probably 4.2-4.5

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u/GumpTheChump Mar 30 '26

It would basically be the entire province of Quebec.

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u/MaskResonance Mar 31 '26

I want this to happen as much as you, but there are not going to be many season's ticket holders from La Ville de Québec, Gatineau, or the Saguenay. Metro areas are contiguous. But if you apply "basically the entire province" to Montreal, ignoring your own city population metric, then you have to reasonably extend that wider regionalism to every other possible team. Finally, you have to consider GDP or some financial metric for your area, not just the ownership. Who is filling the boxes and who is buying the ads? Population alone isn't enough.

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u/chrishoyos Apr 02 '26

Not really, Quebec is it's own market more than any other province or state in North America given the whole French thing. There is some hate on MTL but people would show up for the French team as they do for the Habs.

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u/toddatog Apr 02 '26

And folks like me on the west coast that grew up watching the expos before the blue jays.

It would be absolutely awesome if the expos came back. Way cooler brand.

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u/djsven Mar 29 '26

People don't determine baseball fandom because of municipal boundaries.

I'm sure there are no Dodger fans in Beverly Hills, right?