Expos to move to DC

Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
Not all teams retain such rights, even though its their history. When the Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore, they intentionally let the name remain for a future Cleveland Browns football team. This was a classy move by the Ravens. Lets see if the Texas Rangers organization care about the greater good of baseball, and the baseball heritage of Washington D.C. Especially when they weren't the Washington Senators for that long.

You bring up an interesting point.

This team will always have the history of the Expos. Despite not being in Montreal, current players will be competeing with former Expos for team records.

The Browns thing was a special case scenario.

Why should the Rangers have to give up their history? Obviously Washington didn't do enough to keep the Senators the first two times they were there, why should they have to erase their team records? Come up with something creative. When Colorado got an NHL team back(the Avalanche) they got a new name, they didn't resurrect the name "Rockies", because i'm sure the Devils still hold the rights to that.

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