Pardon me for the run-on sentence

While I have always had a desire for the success of my birth-town sports teams, and while I have enjoyed the playing of the Montreal Expos and have the highest possible admiration for former Expos manager Felipe Alou, I do have to say that if there is ANY city in North America that can survive without a pro-sports team it is Montreal, because the people there have a love of life and they don't need to wait for no one to tell them how to live.

They just go ahead and to what they do best: joie de vivre

The MTL Expos will be missed, but life will go on within 24 hours. While tears will be shed there too, other cities who lose a baseball team will also gain a long-term hole in the fabric of their lives. Not Montreal. They heal fast . . . on to Sainte-Catherine street . . .

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Got points ? Got smiles !