Tehran-born Canadian Freeing Iran | Running out of ideas @WatchMojo since 2006 | Restoring @Montreal_Expos linkedin.com/in/ashkank/

Montréal, Québec
I like to stay busy, but here to serve! If I can assist, lmk!
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... et au coucher du soleil... :) Des images conceptuels afin académique. Au début, on m'a rapproché pour avoir démontrer des compagnies Americaines! Mes excuses :)
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et le plan apres nos recherches et analyses.
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A few renderings of a possible @Montreal_Expos ballpark. None of the companies are involved, all strictly for educational, academic purposes. But, can you 'mage. Also: #PeanutProject Day 300 update coming today/tomorrow...
Many @Montreal_Expos fans ask me about the Peel Basin as an option for the future @mlb stadium. Sorry it took me so long. Here's a preliminary analysis of Le Plan directeur de mise en valeur du secteur Bridge-Bonaventure (Penske file), assessment & options
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EXPOS FAQ: THE STATUS OF PEEL BASIN

A Peanut Project Community Update, Day 299. People keep asking me some variation of the same question: What can we actually do to help bring the @Montreal_Expos back? Start a petition? Crowdfund

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The Iranian monarchists who block khanoom and yours truly miss all the great exchanges. Jokes aside, I used to engage, listen and debate with pretty much anyone. But after the January 2026 massacre, there's a line for me: if you can't at least acknowledge the scope and scale of the brutality inflicted on Iranians, I really don't think you have an opinion worth listening to. The precise death toll remains contested, but the mass killings themselves are extensively documented. Sorry, not sorry. The best part? After spewing kosesher at you, they slide into your DMs with: “Don't harass me.” Then stop with the kosesher.
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Genghis Khan was a sociopath. “The greatest happiness is to vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, and to clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.” JFC.
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In my veins. LFG #GoHabsGo can't wait for @CanadiensMTL season to start.
Hopefully there’s a run like this in our near future!!
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"I am sure you have a team in place..." It's early days... in the grand scheme of things wrt @MLB expansion. So earlier on, I shared this: it was like a database to enter your info, background, expertise to those who wanted to join @Montreal_Expos and help with the Peanut Project. Link to the form in the replies. We have 50+ candidates... LFG!
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Many @Montreal_Expos fans ask me about the Peel Basin as an option for the future @mlb stadium. Sorry it took me so long. Here's a preliminary analysis of Le Plan directeur de mise en valeur du secteur Bridge-Bonaventure (Penske file), assessment & options
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EXPOS FAQ: THE STATUS OF PEEL BASIN

A Peanut Project Community Update, Day 299. People keep asking me some variation of the same question: What can we actually do to help bring the @Montreal_Expos back? Start a petition? Crowdfund

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Those who say this isn't enabling a murderous regime, that “it's journalism” — OK. Then I challenge @BretBaier to do the journalism and ask the President of the Islamic Republic about the January massacre. To be fair, Bret, you pressed Araghchi. Now ask the President himself. Thousands of Iranians were killed. Human Rights Watch documented evidence of mass killings by security forces, while even the regime's eventual official death toll reached 3,117; independent estimates were higher. nitter.net/ashkan/status/20163379… Iranians have suffered enormously under this regime, and the past year has certainly not been easy. But the sooner the Iranian people can have their freedom — and their choices reflected in their government — the better for Iran and, I believe, the world. This regime has repeatedly demonstrated that preserving itself takes precedence over protecting its own citizenry. And January appears to have cut even deeper than previous crackdowns. The violence affected families across Iranian society — including people connected to the very institutions and constituencies upon which the Islamic Republic has historically relied. Whatever support the regime still retains, the question worth asking is whether January caused some of that support to rot from within. So ask him. You pressed Araghchi. Now press the President. That's journalism.
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Apparently, there are a ton of Montrealers who ventured off to study and work abroad. Some of them ended up in finance. A lot of them want to help bring the @Montreal_Expos back—and they're realizing they now have a field commander on the ground, plugging away, leading an army of Peanut aficianados with their sights set on restoring one of their favorite sports teams. Don’t get me wrong: many of these guys may have a personal interest. And sure, professionally, they need to show their overlords they’re keeping busy and looking for opportunities. But getting emails from Montrealers saying things like: “Worlds are colliding. The guy who started the channel I spent an ungodly amount of time watching is now trying to bring back the team I cried myself to sleep over when they left.” That was not, apparently, on their bingo cards. Yet here we are. Life is wild. LFG. 🥜⚾
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A big part of the TEAMS thesis is Academia. The Academy & Study of Entrepreneurship (ASE) was initially an idea I had for a free entrepreneurship school for entrepreneurs with a slight emphasis on media and storytelling. But with the Peanut Project and our effort to bring back @MLB and restore the @Montreal_Expos - ASE will have a heavy sports business angle. Athletes today don’t view broadcasting and coaching as their main career paths. They view themselves now as entrepreneurs and investors. Expect much more of this.
Pujols to @FOS: “I was part of a group but it didn’t work out. We went after a couple of ball clubs that got sold over the last eight months, but they bid a little bit higher than us.” Angels and Padres both sold in the last eight months. frontofficesports.com/articl…
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My wife on the lookout for me…
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A couple of years ago my @WatchMojo board members asked me "why don't you guy websites, and reduce your exposure to @youtube?" So turn our back on what built the business and where the audiences are flocking to? For... "greed" (to not share revenues with platforms)? Traffic to website is on a long term trend to 0. All falling knives. AI snippets will accelerate this. Not just news sites btw, all websites. No one cares about your grandma's life when they're looking for apple pie recipes, they just want to know the basics... not what memories the scent of cinnamon evokes to you. Sorry not sorry, it's happening.
In the last 2 years, web traffic to news sites has fallen by about 28%.
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This is not really great for retail investors. What made a ton of money for the "average investor" was capturing a lot of the capital gains when companies IPO earlier. By virtue of private equity propping up pre-IPO companies longer, they capture the value, before unloading the stock to consumers... who sometimes end up having to hold the shares a very long time after the eventual post-IPO pressure selling...
My lord, three IPOs are worth more than… all IPOs in the last 45 years of tech 🤯
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Do we know anyone who works at "ministère des Transports, de la Mobilité durable et de l'Électrification des transports?" One of the land locations I inquired about a possible @Montreal_Expos stadium belongs to them, and not the @MTL_Ville Yes, I am exploring other avenues than X, but let's face it, inasmuch as X is the asylum of the world, it's also got some smart folks...
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My May prediction doesn’t seem so nuts now, does it? IF we go by @espn's criteria, and given that Raleigh now has anchors publicly backing its bid, this is how I see the East today. But don’t kid yourself: @Montreal_Expos are only starting second on a technicality. Our Chassis - the city's DMA, size, corporate base, history & legacy - is nothing any other car can match. The Engine - TEAMS model, 4C, etc. Once those lights go from red to green, who do YOU think emerges from the first corner in pole position? Love being the underdog, counted out, only to come back and prevail. There's a fine line between the energy of the fans, and the noise of the critics... and winning is knowing how to harvest each source of energy: As @CanadiensMTL legend @PKSubban1 worded so eloquently: "I can’t wait for the crowd, the noise, the energy in the building. I can’t wait to take that all away from them.” It’s Sunday. Race day. Who do you want behind as Driver behind the wheel? LFG! Bring it.
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