Say this for the new Netflix documentary Who Killed the Montreal Expos? — it’s far better than I thought it would be. Article content

Mind you, there are significant omissions. The makers of the documentary give the Toronto Blue Jays a free pass on rolling up the Expos’ national TV network and then voting to contract the senior Canadian franchise in 2001. The period after the team was taken over by Major League Baseball, with the Expos playing half their “home” games in Puerto Rico, is also given short shrift. And Jean Drapeau, the mayor who brought the team to this city, doesn’t get the blame he deserves for setting it up to fail with the catastrophic construction of the Olympic Stadium — a non-ballpark in the wrong place that brought the city and province to the brink of financial ru

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