Even though we couldn't give a rat's ass about baseball now that the NFL has started up again, a little while back, MLB players and owners agreed on a new deal, thus averting a strike.

But we recently asked Rag Readers: What would YOU have done to pass the time had baseball gone on strike?

"Same thing I do every day: go to my thankless job at the irregular hubcap plant, bust my hump all day, and come home to a tasteless Swanson Hungry Man chicken pot pie cooked by my frigid, bitter, humorless cow-of-a-wife. Any more questions, fuckface?" -- Mitch Z., Kansas City

"Wept, and wept, and wept some more until I could see John Rocker's sweet, innocent, cherubic face once again." -- Ariel T., Portsmouth, NH

"If they ever do strike and have scab players play, I hope the real players don't scream at them, like happened to that poor Keanu Reeves in The Replacements." -- Larry, Austin, TX

"One word: Skinemax." -- Louis J., Lancaster, PA

"I would have gone to the National Archive in Washington, D.C. and combed through the original writings of Nostradamus to see if he ever predicted anything whatsoever about the horrifying, apocalyptic spectre of Rosie O'Donnell's swollen cranium." -- S.Madden, Boston, MA

"Who needs baseball when there's non-stop filibuster action on C-SPAN?"-- Danny P., Skokie, IL

"Does being perched in a high pine tree behind Bud Selig's house, wearing Army fatigues and camouflage face-paint, and monitoring his every movement through a high-powered, infrared rifle scope count as 'passing the time?'" -- James B., Atlanta, GA

Congressmen discuss the Sarbannes Bill -- which will enforce corporate responsibility in the wake of Enron and Worldcomm scandals –- providing more entertainment than baseball could ever dream of.