It seems as if everyone has an opinion as to where the Montreal Expos should play their home games next year. Montreal? Washington? Puerto Rico? In a galaxy far, far away?

Yes, we'd all like to tell Major League Baseball where to stick its Expos. Not that we have a problem with the club per se -- remember, it went 83-79 to finish in second place in the National League East, delectably embarrassing the Mets -- but the weekly hand-wringing and contingency speculation regarding where the club would/should/could play has become as fascinating as the Ned Yost Manager Watch.

	Vladimir Guerrero playing in Las Vegas could be a big attraction.

As if it truly matters to many of us. It's the players who will probably have the strongest opinions. So we decided to ask them. Before the end of the season, I canvassed the Expos roster -- at least those players whose language I spoke -- and asked where they would like their team to play next season. These were the results:

Washington, DC	6½
Montreal	3½
Portland	3
Las Vegas	3
Charlotte	2

Each player was promised anonymity so as to avoid any international incidents and/or early trips to the waiver wire. Here were some of their explanations for the cities they chose:

Washington: "It's a good sports town. You have the Redskins. I feel pretty positive they could support us, especially in a new facility. And maybe it's a little bit of the patriot in me, too."

Montreal: "I love the city. I have no problem going back. But give us a new stadium. I want to go outdoors. Or open the roof in June, for crying out loud."

Portland: "The climate, it's a beautiful city, it's clean. And it's about as far away from Montreal as you can get."

Las Vegas: "Who doesn't want to go to Vegas? There isn't enough support in Montreal. We've had good teams with good young players. It's a great city, but they're not into baseball."

Washington: "It's a big market. I could see us being America's team. Now, we're not even Canada's team."

Las Vegas: "But even when I played against the Las Vegas Stars, I don't remember great crowds. I don't know how much different it would be for a big-league game."

This poll was conducted before the idea of having the Expos play at least some of their games in Puerto Rico had been floated seriously, and it's hard to imagine that not getting a lot of support from the Latin American members of the club, of which there are many. In fact there is no team in the majors with a more Caribbean nucleus -- its entire starting infield, all-star right fielder, ace pitcher and two other top starters are Latin American, not to mention the general manager, Omar Minaya. (There is no truth to rumors that Tomo Ohka and Masato Yoshii are starting a Tokyo lobby.)

It's hard to know how likely any of these relocation scenarios may be. One day you have a New York Daily News report heralding how the Red Sox could let the Expos crash at Fenway for a year, and the next day those involved say that's hogwash. There does seem to be more credence to the idea of San Juan's Hiram Bithorn Stadium housing 20 games or more, given MLB's international fetish and the lack of obvious alternatives in the United States.

Then again, when you look back, the "We're on our way out" marketing campaign became one of the most effective in Montreal history. Expos attendance jumped 33 percent in 2002, the largest rise in the big leagues, and twice as much as the defending World Series-champion Arizona Diamondbacks. Think fans at Olympic Stadium would notice if they tried it again?

In all seriousness, the Expos still drew just 813,000 fans, worst in the majors, and it's about time MLB figures this out once and for all. End the embarrassment, already. It's not like the owners won't make out like bandits. Say MLB winds up figuring out the territory issues in Washington or elsewhere and sells the club for $250 million; even given the $50 million in operating losses owners claim to have incurred running the Expos for the past year, the 29 clubs still would pocket up to $100 million from the transaction.

"The Washington territory is an asset of Major League Baseball, and anything that was obtained from that asset would be an asset of Major League Baseball and belong to the clubs," Bob DuPuy, MLB's No. 2 official behind commissioner Bud Selig, told me this summer. Given that, its investment in the Expos could prove to be a very intelligent one, right? "If that were to come to pass," DuPuy said, "you could say that it is."

In the meantime, we seem ready to be treated to yet another winter of different scenarios and predictions as to where the Expos could play six months from now. The players themselves wouldn't mind Washington, Portland, Las Vegas, Puerto Rico.

Far away from Montreal, as one player put it? Some would prefer to stay. Just as long as it's far away from the same tired conversations.

Alan Schwarz is the Senior Writer of Baseball America magazine and a regular contributor to ESPN.com.