{"id":2078,"date":"2013-09-17T08:30:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/expos\/why-we-have-to-attend\/"},"modified":"2014-01-12T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T02:52:08","slug":"why-we-have-to-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exposnation.com\/en\/why-we-have-to-attend\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we have to attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Mack Mansouri<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On March 28th and 29th 2014, the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Mets will play two exhibition games here in Montreal at the Olympic Stadium. Since the news was announced, much buzz has been generated in the city. People are talking baseball now more than ever. This is an incredible opportunity for us, the members of ExposNation and those who love professional sports in general, to use this event as a platform to further strengthen the message that the city of Montreal loves baseball.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So we urge you to come one and come all wearing your Expos attire. Bring your friends, family members, children, co-workers, teammates, husbands, wives, girlfriends, boyfriends, and show your love for baseball and resolve for Major League Baseball to see that our city is a Major League city.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exposnation.com\/en\/exposnations-official-position-on-the-march-mlb-games\/\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">ExposNation Official position on these games<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evenko.ca\/en\/search\/all\/jays\/?q=jays\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Buy your tickets now<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 28th and 29th 2014, the Toronto Blue Jays and the New York Mets will play two exhibition games here in Montreal at the Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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