1.   We told them baseball needs the flexibility to take either one of the actions.

2.   And baseball needs to help her.

3.   And baseball needs to make a real effort to reconnect with younger fans.

4.   And baseball needs a hard hand.

5.   Baseball badly needs a system which would include revenue sharing and both a ceiling and floor on team salaries.

6.   Baseball desperately needed a fairy story to restore the faith of a disgusted public.

7.   Baseball needed to crack the whip, get everyone in line.

8.   Baseball needs a David Stern.

9.   Baseball needs a permanent commissioner.

10.   Baseball needs a presence like his to take the game into the next millennium.