11.   Omaha is flush with opinions that the SEC and ACC are now the best conferences, too, and that west coast baseball is losing ground.

12.   The dilemma of the Cordero family is merely the latest example of how baseball has so lost its way that it can now steal our whole summer in June.

13.   Two years ago, when Piazza read about the increased expectations that went along with his salary, baseball lost some innocence for him.

14.   Until then, baseball will lose whenever it goes to the table.

15.   While baseball lost its best salesman, a good-time guy and a wonderful ambassador, the little people lost their voice.

16.   Owners say baseball is losing hundreds of millions of dollars annually and has a competitive-balance problem.

17.   Taiwanese baseball is losing many of its stars to a corruption scandal so vast that even the high schools championship has been tarnished.

18.   The streak was something poetic at a time many thought baseball had lost its romance.

19.   Baseball lost.