DUNEDIN

On Friday, March 28, Jacques Doucet will leave his house in Longueuil, Que., and make the 20-minute drive to Olympic Stadium in Montreal.

The building has not hosted a major-league ball game since Sept. 29, 2004, when the Montreal Expos lost 9-1 to the Florida Marlins in their final game before moving to Washington.

“It will seem strange going to work at Olympic Stadium again,” said Doucet, while watching the Blue Jays play the Houston Astros here on Thursday afternoon.

Doucet and Roger Brulotte will broadcast the New York Mets-Jays exhibition matches March 28-29 at Olympic Stadium from the same perch they did their Expos game. Doucet said 75,000 tickets have sold for the two days.

For the past three seasons, Doucet has done the play-by-play and Brulotte the analysis of 60 Blue Jays games for French-language TVA Sports. This year, TVA has added 70 more games from MLB Network, plus one wild-card game, two division series and one League Championship Series.

Doucet was the voice of the Expos in Montreal. No one saw more Expos game than him as he covered the club for La Presse before switching to radio in 1972 and staying until 2004.

bob.elliott@sunmedia.ca