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October 3, 2004     Expos will outlive disappointment  It's
looking like the Expos are gone (who knows with Major League
Baseball?), but they won't be forgotten. Their history will live
on in the hearts of the many thousands of fans who supported the
club during its 36-year run in Montreal.  It was a bittersweet
love affair between a city and its baseball team with the Expos
teasing, but never fully delivering, the sweet satisfaction of
realized potential.  If the Expos brand is headed for the
graveyard of transferred franchises, what will live on as the
defining, on-field moment of the club?  It just might be Blue
Monday when Rick Monday of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit that home
run that ended up winning Game 5 of the NLCS in 1981.  It summed
up the Expos' existence: Oh, so close.  Steve Rogers, the Expos'
ace, was the guy who served up that home run in a relief role.
Looking back on it the other day, he said he has since figured
out what makes a