Expos only had a 1/8 chance to win the 1994 title

You know who was also strong? The Seattle Mariners, they were making a strong run at the end of the season. They had the very last game of the 1994 season before the strike down in Oakland vs the A's. Seattle won and were only 1/2 game behind the Texas Rangers for the AL West with another month in the season to go. If it wasn't for the strike, Seattle could've won the West or a Wild Card spot. 1994 would've been the first year of the Wild Card format if it wasn't for the strike.

What Seattle did in it's 1995 run having it's first ever playoff birth beating the Angels in an extra one off game to determine the AL West winner and then the Yankees in the post season was just an extension of what they did in the previous year. A lot of bandwagon Seattle Mariner fans from 1995 don't seem to know this. I know because 1994 was the year I started to watch baseball games regularly as in about every Mariner game. Mariner home games in the Kingdome barely had 12,000-15,000 fans in 1994 for nearly the entire season as compared to to the 50,000-58,000 when they were phenomenal in the second half of 1995.