In 2002, the team was nearly disbanded when Major League Baseball selected the Twins and the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals franchise ) for elimination due to their financial weakness relative to other franchises in the league.

In 2002, the former minority owners of the Montreal Expos baseball team filed charges under the RICO Act against Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and former Expos owner Jeffrey Loria, claiming that Selig and Loria deliberately conspired to devalue the team for personal benefit in preparation for a move.

His managing career would go on to include Cleveland ( 1975 – 1977 ); the San Francisco Giants ( 1981 – 1984 ); the Orioles ( 1988 – 1991 ); and the Montreal Expos / Washington Nationals franchise ( 2002 – 2006 ).

After Robinson had spent some years known in baseball as the Director of Discipline, he was chosen by Major League Baseball in 2002 to manage the Expos, which MLB owned at that time.

Over the team's 15 seasons, it was the Triple-A Minor League affiliate of the Montreal Expos ( 1993 – 2002 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 2003 – 2006 ), and Philadelphia Phillies ( 2007 ).

The team has had several different major league affiliations: the Pirates ( 1954 – 58 and 1966 – 68 ), the White Sox ( 1959 – 65 ), the Pilots / Brewers ( 1969 – 70 ), the Tigers ( 1971 – 75 ), a Tigers / White Sox co-op ( 1976 ), the Dodgers ( 1977 – 79 ), the Giants ( 1980 – 94 ), the Padres ( 1995 – 98 ), the Reds ( 1999 – 2000 ), the Expos ( 2001 – 2002 ), and the Rangers ( 2003 – 2008 ).

The Expos averaged 72 victories over the next six seasons ( their best seasons after 1994 were an 88 win season in 1996 and an 83 win season in 2002 ) and Alou was fired in 2001.

Following his playing career, Guillén coached for the Montreal Expos in 2001 and 2002 and the World Champion Florida Marlins in 2003 before he was hired in the offseason to replace Jerry Manuel as the White Sox manager.

Previously, Chávez played for the Montreal Expos ( 1996 – 1997 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1998 ), Houston Astros ( 2000, 2002 – 2005 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 2006 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 2008 ), and Toronto Blue Jays ( 2009 ).

In 2002, Chávez joined the Montreal Expos organization, playing for the Ottawa Lynx.

In the winter of 2001 Chávez was traded to the Montreal Expos, playing 309 games over three years ( 2002 – 05 ).

In 2002 and 2003 he helped the Expos compile competitive records of 83 – 79 in each season, contending for postseason play, but falling short of the wild-card slot each time.

Many current owners believe this is the optimal size for a major league, and with the possible exception of the NFL's desire to return to Los Angeles, North America's second largest market, none of the major leagues are believed to be imminently considering expansion, and in fact Major League Baseball actually considered contraction in 2002 to be effective for the season ( of the Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins ), until the union got a contract prohibiting it.

For the 2002 season, Galarraga signed up with the Montreal Expos again, and he played one more baseball season with this team.

He played with the Montreal Expos ( 1995 – 2001 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2001 – 2002 ), Texas Rangers ( 2003 ), Florida Marlins ( 2003 ), Detroit Tigers ( 2004 – 2005 ), and Philadelphia Phillies ( 2005 ).

He played as a left fielder in Major League Baseball for six teams from 1979 to 2002 and was best known for his 13 seasons with the Montreal Expos.

However, as the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, operator of the Metrodome, won an injunction requiring the Twins to play there in 2002, MLB was unable to revoke the Twins franchise, and so had to keep the Twins and Expos as part of the MLB schedule.

Hernández has played for the Florida Marlins ( 1996 – 1999 ), the San Francisco Giants ( 1999 – 2002 ), the Montreal Expos ( 2003 – 2004 ), the Washington Nationals ( 2005 – 2006, 2009 – 2011 ), the Arizona Diamondbacks ( 2006 – 2007 ), the Minnesota Twins ( 2008 ), the Colorado Rockies ( 2008 ), and the New York Mets ( 2009 ).

On March 23, 2003, following his loss in game seven of the 2002 World Series, Hernández, along with infielder Edwards Guzmán, was traded by the Giants to the Montréal Expos for relief pitchers Jim Brower and Matt Blank.

The Expos traded Bay to the New York Mets on March 24, 2002 with Jim Serrano for Lou Collier.

In January 2002 Henry sold the Marlins in a multi-franchise deal to Jeffrey Loria then owner of the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals ).

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On September 24, 2002 he was honored as the Expos ' nominee for Major League Baseball's first annual Roberto Clemente Award, losing out to Jim Thome.

This reaction was performed in May 2002 at the GSI.

In 2002, she performed a triple-role alongside Ralph Fiennes in David Cronenberg's acclaimed thriller Spider, a film that won her several international critics ' awards.

In 2001 and 2002 Whitehouse wrote and performed in two series of the BBC comedy drama Happiness, in which he played a voice-over actor with a mid-life crisis.

He was a featured clinicians at the 1994, 1999 and 2002 Percussive Arts Society International Conventions and the 1997 Modern Drummer Festival, and performed in videos at two of those events.

In 2002 the New National Theatre of Tokyo presented two limited engagements of their production, which was performed in Japanese with English supertitles.

Another operatic adaptation is Lynne Plowman's Gwyneth and the Green Knight, first performed in 2002.

" Boss of Me " became the band's second top-40 hit in the UK which they performed on long running UK television programme Top of the Pops, and in 2002, won the duo a Grammy Award.

On 13 July 2002, Fatboy Slim performed the second of his free, open air concerts on Brighton Beach, named The Big Beach Boutique II, Although organisers expected a crowd of around 60, 000 people, the event instead attracted an estimated 250, 000 who crammed the promenade and beach between Brighton's piers.

The first ever 3x5twist performed on snow during competition was by Czech aerialist Ales Valenta in 2002 during WC in Whistler, CAN.

In 2002, she also performed a week of special concerts at Pizza Express in London.

As a director, his 2002 film Pinocchio, one of the costliest films in Italian cinema, performed well in Italy, but it bombed in North America, with a 0 % critics ' score at Rotten Tomatoes.

Angela Hewitt was removed from the Steinway Artist roster in 2002 after she purchased and performed on a Fazioli piano.

In late 2002, following investigations by her daughter Bettina, it was discovered that Meinhof's brain had been retained ( apparently without permission ) following the autopsy performed as part of the investigation into Meinhof's death.

In 2002, the band headlined twelve major summer music festivals, and played three extended concerts ( one in Brussels, two in Berlin ) in which they performed the albums Pornography, Disintegration and Bloodflowers in their respective entireties each night.

After 1995, Castellaneta voiced Santa's Little Helper on his own while Welker performed other animal noises until his full departure in 2002, when he was denied a pay raise.

at MIT found that some business models, as defined by them, indeed performed better than others in a dataset consisting of the largest U. S. firms, in the period 1998 through 2002, while they did not prove whether the existence of a business model mattered.

A later test performed in 2002 – 2003 confirmed the DED resistance of these same three varieties, and that of ' Jefferson '.

In 2002, Tony Curtis performed in a stage production of the film.

An interpretation of the work was performed by the English Chamber Choir at Your Country Needs You, an evening of " voices in opposition to war " organised by The Crass Collective in November 2002.

In 2002, they performed as the opening act, as well as the backup band for singer Beck on his Sea Change tour.

He performed a special arrangement of " Fragile " with Yo-Yo Ma and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, US.

* Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros played a gig in support of striking firefighters on November 15, 2002 at Acton Old Town Hall, and Mick Jones joined Strummer on stage, marking the first time they performed together since Jones's departure from The Clash.

From 2002 to 2009 one of the councillors had been appointed as the " civic ambassador " and performed the civic and ceremonial role previously carried out by the mayor.

Anoushka performed a composition by Shankar for the 2002 Harrison memorial Concert for George and Shankar wrote a third concerto for sitar and orchestra for Anoushka and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.