Lyle Overbay says Toronto fans still bitter about ’94 strike

One of my baseball pet peeves is hearing people continue to bellyache about the 1994 strike almost two decades later. The complaints always strike me as empty and lame, because if those fans still haven't gotten over the work stoppage, it's likely they never really liked baseball in the first place and would've found another excuse to moan had the strike never happened. They're seriously past the point of being able to be legitimately upset*. *Except for Expos fans, of course. They're allowed to be as mad as they want. According to Lyle Overbay, then, Toronto wouldn't be my kind of place. As he prepares to make his return to Rogers Centre tonight, the ex-Blue Jay who now plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates believes the strike is still to blame for the team's poor attendance. From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "Ever since the strike, it's been bad," Overbay said. "Those kids who boycotted it back then, now they have kids and they're ...