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19:33, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
Home Run leaders
Usually, one would simply say "alphabetically" rather than "by letters of the alphabet". Wahkeenah 03:50, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
I didn't want to say "alphabetically" because then the article would seem to be about the home runs leaders in order alphabetically, as opposed to the leaders in home run of each letter. Croat Canuck 15:21, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Aha! This is one of those "artificial" lists for amusement purposes, like listing every ballplayer with a name or nickname that's an animal, and calling it the "all-Zoo" team or some such: Walt "Moose" Moryn, Ryne "Ryno" Sandberg (intended to sound like "Rhino"), Joe "Ducky" Medwick, Tris "Gray Eagle" Speaker, etc. I can dig it. Somewhere I have a list that shows what I call "win patterns" in the post-season. I wonder if I should make a page out of that. Example: The Red Sox ALCS win over the Yankees last year, I call "aa hHH AA". Lost 2 "away", lost 1 "home", won 2 "Home", won 2 "Away". Obviously that's the first time that pattern ever has ever appeared. The most frequently occurring win pattern in a 7-game World Series, for example, is "aa HHH aA", which has occurred 4 times: 1955 BKN/NYY, 1956 NYY/BKN, 1965 LA/MIN, 1971 PIT/BAL d:) Wahkeenah 17:27, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Expos????
OK, I can see you're a Torontoan (Torontoer? Torontoite?), so I can see why you put Jays-Spos on that funky rivalries page. But, here's the key, was this rivalry just as passionate to Móntrèáléràns? I know it's Canada v. Canada, and I'm not sure but I think Ontarioaners love sticking it to Quebeckerers, but were there even really enough Spos fans to make this a rivalry? Pardon my Francois, but I beleive if you can prove it from both POVs, it stays; if ya cain't, it leaves. (Oh man, I'm gonna get reamed for this.)--CrazyTalk 03:56, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
Of course I can only report this from the POV of an Ontarian (I've only been to Toronto about 25 times in my life), however I can tell you why it is an important rivalry. Montreal used to be a popular team, although it was always second place to the Canadiens in terms of popularity, it had a nice fan base before the players strike of 94. The reason the fans disappeared was because the 94 Expos were the best team the Expos ever had, and were poised to win the World Series, when the stike ruined the season, and then all the good players left to the bigger-money ballteams. How does this tie into the rivalry? Well the Jays sprung up in 1977, and in the 1980's both teams were good, not World Series calibre, and each had their own set of stars. But the Jays kept making it to the playoffs, unlike the Expos. The Jays were like the lil bro who was great at everything, and that added one point to the rivalry. The second point to the rivalry is when the Jays grabbed all of Canada's attention in 92 and 93 when they won the World Series, meanwhile Montreal was stuck in good-but-not-great town. Then Montreal had its 94 team, and were gonna show the Jays but they failed because of the strike. Then when Interleague play was introduced, it brought on the short-lived Canada Day Matchup. Whoever won the series was the best in Canada, and I can remember watching those games on TV and being thrilled by the Toronto-Montreal matchup. Even though it isn't anything of the calibre of a Maple Leafs-Canadiens rivalry, it still represented the same principles that made THAT rivalry so great: Red vs. Blue, French vs. English, Ontario vs. Quebec, and so on and so forth. The Expos-Blue Jays rivalry wasn't only a rivalry of the teams, but it was baseball's version of one of the biggest rivalry's on Earth. It gave Ontarians a reason to laugh at the Quebecois, because the Blue Jays were actually a better team than the Expos. I bet there are still a few Expos fans out there who are still green with envy over the Jays still having a franchise, and having Two World Series banners, as well as a retractable dome that actually WORKS. Sorry, that was a little long, but when I get moving I don't stop. Croat Canuck 04:56, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
P.S., There is no official name for the rivalry, so I made up a few