Dawson In As An Expo!!!!!!!

[dirtyla2000]

The Legend Of The Expos Lives On.the Expos Were The Logical Choice! Felicatation Nos Amours!!!

[ironmanfan]

It was the right choice IMO

[allstarsplus]

The Legend Of The Expos Lives On.the Expos Were The Logical Choice! Felicatation Nos Amours!!!

Glad to hear he did the right thing! It is also a nice tribute to the fans that were faithful to the Montreal Expos.

[Birdbats]

Guess the Cubs won't be retiring his number now, huh?

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ml...ory?id=4814493

[shoremen44]

But think about it this way... his number is already retired with the expos.... for that matter everyone's is

[BorchertField]

Guess the Cubs won't be retiring his number now, huh?

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ml...ory?id=4814493

Amazingly classless move out of Wrigley. Bush league, gentlemen. Very bush.

It smacks of the slimy quid pro quo that led the Hall of Fame to take the choice away from players in the first place.

[platinum1]

Guess the Cubs won't be retiring his number now, huh?

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/ml...ory?id=4814493

WOW Another reason to hate the Cubs.
They do one dumb thing after another.
This is the same organization that refused to put a statue of
ERNIE BANKS "MR CUB" around the stadium.
It took Jessie Jackson and Mike North to start a petition to have a statue put around Wrigley.
And they still figured a way to screw that up by having a grammer error on the statue.

[Sincityson]

Dawson would have made more money for speaking engagements, etc.. had he have gone in as a Cub.. Cooperstown Confidential is a good book to read, explains a few things like that.

Not sure why he would publicly say what he said on ESPN radio:

“I’m disappointed,” Dawson told the ESPN Radio affiliate. “I can proudly say that because Chicago was my preference.”

[staindsox]

Sounds like he wanted to go in as a Cub too...

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/news/story?id=4862768

[sox83cubs84]

Why go in as an Expo (other than the Hall of Fame throwing their weight around)? The team had crowds at the end that would embarass a high school basketball game, the team was rarely competitive, and, when the Expos first retired #10, they publicized Rusty Staub...Dawson wasn't even given a mention. I don't blame Dawson for making his true feelings known...this wasn't Wade Boggs being offered megabucks by Tampa Bay to go in as a Devil Ray; this was a guy who won an MVP in Chicago the season after he left Montreal, is still a fan favorite among Cubs Nation, and has personally taken a love of the Cubs and their fans that isn't matched with the Expos or any other team they played with. I think it SUCKS!!

Dave M.
Chicago area