{"id":2038,"date":"2013-03-04T07:46:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T12:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/expos\/and-if-there-was-hope-of-a-new-stadium\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T12:46:40","slug":"and-if-there-was-hope-of-a-new-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exposnation.com\/en\/and-if-there-was-hope-of-a-new-stadium\/","title":{"rendered":"And if there was hope of a new stadium!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Desnoyers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the Toronto Blue Jays celebrate their 20th anniversary of their World Championship title with a \u201cnew and refreshed\u201d team, by signing some prominent players this winter, the Montreal and Quebec baseball fans are asking themselves if a return of a Major league franchise in Montreal is feasible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fans are not alone I believe. Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapresse.ca\/sports\/201302\/26\/01-4625541-guy-bertrand-reve-encore-dune-equipe-du-baseball-majeur-et-de-jo-a-montreal.php\">LaPresse<\/a> reported that the lawyer Guy Bertrand has reconduct the registration of a group called \u201cConsortium GB\u201d to the Quebec Registry of Lobbyists. Their declaration is ambitious but it has a few worth mentioning quotes. In the first mandate it says that they want to build a stadium with a retractable roof and an Olympic sport city in order to receive some Olympics games. All of this would be done on a beautiful site with \u201cprivate funds\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that\u2019s not all, in the second mandate of the group which the identity of the funds provider is kept secret, the declaration says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consortium GB entend aussi prendre toutes les mesures n\u00e9cessaires pour que Montr\u00e9al obtienne une franchise de la Ligue nationale ou de la Ligue am\u00e9ricaine de Baseball. Les repr\u00e9sentations de Consortium GB visent \u00e0 faire connaitre aux autorit\u00e9s gouvernementales comp\u00e9tentes l&#8217;orientation globale de leur projet et \u00e9ventuellement \u00e0 obtenir leur soutien moral pour l&#8217;obtention de cette franchise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And Furthermore, in a some recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.assnat.qc.ca\/fr\/travaux-parlementaires\/commissions\/cat-40-1\/journal-debats\/CAT-130219.html#15h\">debate<\/a> at the national assembly in Quebec, the minister Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Lis\u00e9e was asked some questions on a group that want to bring back a montreal major league baseball franchise. The response was positive but that the government had not been approached yet by said group. Are they talking about \u201cConsortium GB\u201d, probably? Is it the same group that Rodger Brulotte mentioned a while ago ? Let\u2019s hope so.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With all that in mind, it seems there is hope for the fans. 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