21.   The White Sox first baseman is Atlas, marching into the major leagues and saving baseball from itself.

22.   They have argued for months there is a need to wed a salary cap with revenue sharing to save baseball.

23.   Those are the young guns that can save baseball from itself.

24.   While credited with saving baseball in Seattle and making new Safeco Field possible, he leaves behind a franchise that could offer him everything but his real home.

25.   Yeah, these guys helped save baseball here.

26.   You see, the owners were the first to get credit for saving baseball in the Pacific Northwest.

27.   Yet at the moment our local governments, at considerable political peril, are going further than any other city has to save baseball.