Major League Baseball is expected to formally begin its expansion process before commissioner Rob Manfred's retirement in 2029. Two new franchises are likely; the leading candidates include Nashville, Charlotte, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Montreal. This lead the dreamers camped in the Montreal Baseball Project and audiences who watched the 2025 Netflix documentary Who Killed the Montreal Expos? to start imagining the simple question of 'what if...?'
WatchMojo CEO Ashkan Karbasfrooshan has been one of them for a long time. He was in the stands the last time the Montreal Expos played a home game on September 29, 2004. By the end, he'd gone from attending once or twice a year as a kid to showing up for nearly every game.
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