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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Will be interesting.
I think the Expos get fantasized about the 94 season but if it has played out, they probably would have had to get past the Braves in the NLCS (the Braves going to their 4th straight NLCS) and then the Yankees in the World Series. The Yankees were starting their dynasty and also had 70 wins at the time of the strike.
So people blame the strike but there just wasn't the fanbase in Montreal. Jonah Keri's book Up, Up, and Away talks about this in detail.
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for sure we'll never know how they would have done in the playoffs- (although sadly as an Expos fan I could guess- but I don't love the answer)
having said that the team was real deal legit - over their previous 162 games (including the tail end of 1993) that was a 104 win team, and they were hot at the time the season ended
the fanbase issue in Montreal is of course a tricky one- clearly the attendance waned for a long time- in the 80s however they were one of the top drawing teams in the NL .... but the stadium was a problem on so many fronts- nevertheless that was part of the equation
unfortunately Keri has ended up being a sociopath. savardandjokinen and I had a nice chat with him at the Up up and away book signing in Montreal the week of the first set of Jays exhibition games at the big O in 2014