{"id":509195,"date":"2026-03-02T09:43:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509195\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:43:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:43:23","slug":"montreal-expos-parody-account-makes-absurd-joke-about-ayatollah-khamenei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509195\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Expos Parody Account Makes Absurd Joke About Ayatollah Khamenei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who would&#8217;ve thought we&#8217;d get a zinger of a joke combining a discontinued MLB franchise and geopolitical events?<\/p>\n<p>PublishedMarch 1, 2026 3:30 PM EST\u2022UpdatedMarch 1, 2026 3:30 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Montreal Expos had to change plans because of the death of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei. At least, that\u2019s what its parody account says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The Canadian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/category\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLB<\/a> franchise was discontinued after the 2004 season, but a fan has taken it upon themselves to continue tweeting as if the team still exists.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/i\/trending\/2027898296719507851\" rel=\"nofollow\">According to X<\/a>, it also posts random highlights from the team\u2019s past to keep the memory of the club alive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/expos.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in an air strike on February 28. (Getty Images).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">And sometimes, the account ventures into current world events with an unexpectedly dark \u2014 albeit humorous \u2014 twist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/sweepstakes?cmpid=org=ok::ag=owned::mc=editorial::src=hero_spot::cmp=cbb_sweeps::add=cbb_Sweeps_Promotion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Enter To Win The Ultimate &#8220;Money-Can&#8217;t-Buy&#8221; Experience At The NCAA Men&#8217;s Hoops National Championship Game<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">On Saturday, Khamenei was killed in his compound thanks to joint air and missile strike efforts from the United States and Israel. It serves as the end of one of the most tyrannical regimes in the Middle East \u2014 and the world \u2014 in the past three decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">It also threw a wrench in the plans of the Expos. Well, sort of.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The fan who runs this account said that the death of Khamenei made the team\u2019s &#8220;special event&#8221; for a weekend in April null.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">Does this cross a line? Maybe. But seriously, how can you not appreciate the creativity? It would take me hours to think of something like that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">I know there\u2019s an element of gallows humor, and I typically don\u2019t like that, but there\u2019s something about utilizing the nostalgia of a baseball franchise that makes this too good to not chuckle at.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">You could say the crossover of sports and geopolitical events was the\u00a0bomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Who would&#8217;ve thought we&#8217;d get a zinger of a joke combining a discontinued MLB franchise and geopolitical events?&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-509195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}