Gallagher: R.I.P. Rodger Brulotte Expos/Jays announcer

Legendary Montreal Expos broadcaster Rodger Brulotte has died at the age of 79. Photo: Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

March 20, 2026

By Danny Gallagher

Canadian Baseball Network

Rodger Brulotte's cries of Guerrero,Guerrero, Guerrero and Cordero, Cordero, Cordero and Walker, Walker, Walker after homers exemplified his tremendous enthusiasm for the Expos as an announcer.

In all his years alongside Jacques Doucet on Expos' French broadcasts, he was funny, witty and knowledgeable about baseball and the Expos, and later on Blue Jays telecasts.

He was famous for the line "Bonsoir, elle est partie!" (Good night, it is gone) which he blared when the Expos hit a home run.

Fellow media and fans gobbled him up. He kept people in stitches. He hugged people endlessly.

The baseball world is mourning the passing of Brulotte, who died today of cancer. Last fall, he went to see a doctor after complaining of pain in his back. He then had a cancerous tumour removed from one of his vertebraes.

He was a commendable amateur ball player in his youth and was a member of the Expos front-office staff in the early years of the franchise, working for president John McHale, general manager Jim Fanning and the marketing staff. He also contributed to the late 1970s creation of the Expos mascot Youppi.

In 1984, he was hired by CKAC Radio in Montreal to serve as colour commentator with Doucet. Then in 1990, he shifted to television on RDS where he called Expos games with his colleague Denis Casvant until the team's demise in 2004.

Brulotte later became a member of the Blue Jays broadcast team alongside Casavant but he missed the World Series last fall due to his illness. During the World Series, many media members, in support of cancer people, held up signs, saying I Stand Up For Rodger Brulotte.

In 2013, he was voted the winner of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame's Jack Graney Award for media excellence over the course of his lifetime.

A big loss for Quebec and Canada.