Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me.

—The Ghost in Hamlet by William "Author" Shakespeare

Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to heaven!
—Prince Hal in Henry IV, Pt. I, ibid

Now that the Expos are in the can, we are free to review their 36-year history as Bud Selig and the powers that be do a jig on the baseball grave of Montreal and their remaining fans while in all likelihood starting to explore the feasibility of relocating (or at least threatening to relocate) to the Canadian hamlet some time in the near future. I may be premature since they still don't have an owner in Washington after all. Then again, even MLB wouldn't dare to keep the Expos in Montreal after announcing that they were on the move; they'd probably just spend the remaining time in San Juan, baseball's Latin purgatory.

Anyway, first, we'll look at their best team by single-season record. I have ranked them all by actual and expected records and then averaged the rankings. Here's what I got:

Is it any wonder that the strike year of 1994 is the season that broke a lot of fans' backs.

Next let's rank the Expos managers. They are ranked by both winning percentage and overall wins and those rankings are averaged:

That's a great list of mediocrity. Bob "Buck" Rodgers deserves the nod.

To be continued…