11.   Baseball is going to have to pull out of this power dive all by itself.

12.   Baseball must go the way of the NBA and the other leagues when it comes to seizing control of the most fundamental aspects of the sport.

13.   Baseball never has gone through a year without ending a season on the playing field so nobody knows what lies in the great beyond.

14.   Baseball has gone over the wall.

15.   Baseball is going to chew up enough arms in the three-tiered post-season.

16.   Baseball went back to NBC and ABC in a partnership Baseball Network deal.

17.   Baseball went for the no-brainer regional rivalries.

18.   Accept that regular-season baseball is never going to be a great television vehicle.

19.   But baseball is going to have to address relief pitchers and designated hitters.

20.   But the baseball has not gone as well as the charity.