Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the 1994 players' strike, perhaps baseball's darkest hour thanks to the cancellation of the World Series that year.

ESPN.com's Page 2 wonders what would've happened if there was no strike. Would the Expos have won the NL East and gone on to the World Series? This article gives an answer, although it's tongue-in-cheek, as this sample demonstrates:

It was the first year of the 6-division format, and while we all remember the Expos, does anyone recall that the AL West was led by the Texas Rangers, with a record of 52 wins and 63 losses? eek!

There was an article on this subject in the Toronto Star this week. In particular it pointed out that Blue Jays attendance was 50,098/game in 1993. In 1995, after the strike, it was down to 39,257. In 2004 it's 20,255. In a decade we went from the highest attendance in the majors to fourth lowest.

The NY Daily News rana piece last week calling that season's Montreal Expos "The Greatest Team That Never Was". Being a Twins fan, I always love to see the underdog, small market guys do well, so I was majorly rooting for Les 'Spos. Would be intersting to see if they'd still be moving if they'd captured the World Series.