As usual, I’m conflicted. It’s great to see the old Expos uniforms, but it does seem a little goofy if you’re a Nationals fan. Better: the suggestion of sporting early 70s Washington Senators uniforms.
Washington Times columnist Thom Loverro called it a “cheap, lazy, thoughtless promotion,” indicating that any claim to a connection between the two teams seems as distasteful as American poutine.
To have Guerrero tossing the opening pitch is to “celebrate a corpse,” he suggested, and posited that D.C. should look to its own past, which includes the Washington Senators who took off for Texas in the early 1970s.
Commenters tended to agree, with one asking rhetorically: “why do we give a rats arse about Montreal?” Another local tweeted that the throwback jersey “manages to disrespect both Expos fans and fans of both Senators teams” (there were two iterations).
Source: Throwback Expos day at D.C. baseball game divides Montrealers — and Americans | CTV News