71.   Major-league baseball needs a bigger voice or maybe a deeper conscience to cut through the angry rhetoric that will only increase in the days ahead.

72.   Obviously, baseball needs a great season.

73.   Post-season regionalization diminishes the national pastime when baseball needs all the national exposure it can get.

74.   So baseball needs to take a few days off.

75.   So baseball needs to wake up and implement a sophisticated drug policy.

76.   Such a policy would create goodwill at a time when baseball desperately needs some.

77.   The acting commissioner took his same swing by saying baseball needs an exemption from antitrust laws in order to keep major league franchises in place.

78.   The last thing that baseball needs right now is to exclude the fans from anything, especially a celebration like the All-Star Game.

79.   The rebels argue that Japanese baseball needs all the outlandish hair and other badges of individuality it can get.

80.   This is when baseball needs a real commissioner.