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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
My annual post on Expos/Nationals
In response to something related, I said:
I’ve discussed this kind of thing in the past. What does the end-user want to see? In some cases, they want to see Expos-only. In some cases, they want to see Expos/Nats. In some cases, they want to see all MLB Washington teams.
You can call them whatever you want, region-continuity, name-continuity, owner-continuity. Each satisfies an objective.
So, you have to start with the question: what is it that you want to represent?
It would be instructive to look at NHL since they’ve had so many relocations, and even mergers, in the last 40 years. The fans and owners of the NJ Devils treat their entity as starting in NJ, even if they came from Colorado (Rockies), and that team came from Kansas City (Scouts). As far as everyone in NJ is concerned, they were awarded an expansion team. That’s how the fans and the owners want to see their history books. The historian should reflect the perceptions and attitudes of the people. If they don’t see it as a duck and they don’t hear it as a duck, well, it’s not a duck.
I presume the Washington Nationals fans, and ownership, want it like the Devils (I know the Montreal fans do, having no allegiance to the Nats; certainly nothing close to the Dodgers with Brooklyn/LA). They give a few nods their way to the Expos. But, the retired numbers of the Expos actually are not honored in Washington. Indeed, those retired numbers are up in the rafters of their HOCKEY team’s arena, Montreal Canadiens.
So, ask the question as to what it is you want, and the Orioles/Yankees issue resolves itself easily.
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