1.   Baseball does not seem to be attracting the young and keeping them interested, as basketball has done.

2.   Baseball seemed unimportant.

3.   Baseball did not seem to think it could suspend a player immediately for such an ugly act.

4.   Baseball seemed beneath him, too low-brow.

5.   Baseball seems to be the only sport remaining where players and managers actually seem to care about competing and winning the game.

6.   A baseball seemed out of the question.

7.   But baseball somehow seemed to come first, last and foremost.

8.   But fan memories are relatively short, and now baseball seems more popular than ever.

9.   By eliminating teams, baseball seems to be acknowledging that it overreached by expanding as much as it has.

10.   Even in Puerto Rico, where baseball seems to be frozen in time, the modern world is encroaching.