1.   -- Speaking of ads, the CIT Group, a big financial services firm, has weighed in with an opinion on the baseball impasse.

2.   But not even the ample clout of the Oval Office, it seems, can penetrate the thick skulls of the baseball labor impasse.

3.   These two pampered sad sacks are fast becoming poster boys for Americans who side with the wonderful owners in the current baseball labor impasse.

4.   This baseball impasse is simply about winning and losing.