11.   Baseball needs exciting new names and faces.

12.   Baseball needs him.

13.   Baseball needs its historical references.

14.   Baseball needs to go one step further next year and fully integrate its schedule.

15.   Baseball needs to lighten up a little on Rose.

16.   Baseball needs to promote itself, do a better job of pointing out the good things.

17.   Baseball never needed a brand name.

18.   Baseball desperately needs to close the gap between big market and small, heavyweight and welterweight, bully and patsy.

19.   Baseball needs a Dennis Rodman.

20.   Baseball needs a dose of Fenway, a reprieve from the decidedly less charming events of recent weeks.