The management of the Expos will never get it.  I become less and less surprised at the animosity that grows at major league baseball every year.  We have had businessmen running baseball for thirty years now and this last act just cuts to the heart of the problem.

The Colorado Rockies and Montreal Expos play a four game series this weekend.  It's a nothing series.  Neither team is anywhere near the playoffs.  This is the definition of playing out the string. 

After last week's horrifying events, Rockies owner Jerry McMorris had an idea.  Switch the games from Montreal (where in the weeks before the attack they drew less than 3900 fans three times) to Colorado, which regularly has 40,000 people in the stands. 

Colorado would pay all of Montreal's expenses and then give the rest to the relief effort in New York and Washington.

Simple.  A no-brainer, or so I thought.  The Expos said no.  Go ahead. Sit down. You read it right.  The Expos said no. 

Now give them credit, they did say they would donate some money to the relief effort. Hmm... forty thousand for four games is 160,000 people.  Let's say you clear 10 bucks per person.  That's 1.6 million dollars.  Let's take extraordinary expenses and say the Expos expenses are 600,000 dollars.  That's one million dollars for the relief fund. 

Do you think the Montreal organization is going to give a million dollars?  Hell they won't even pay that to 75% of their players.

So once again baseball loses a golden opportunity to become a vital member of America again.  The businessmen of baseball continue to help kill the aura that once surrounded the game.

So much was taken last week, yet all across America and the world we continue to give.  People are volunteering, giving blood, giving time, and giving money. 

Everyone except the Montreal Expos.