The Needle And The Damage Done.

Ushering in the A-'Roid Era, the Tampa wing of the Bronx Zoo finds Yankee manager Joe Girardi meeting the press. 

Bruce Reed from Slate has some ideas as to how baseball can extract its collective head from its collective ass:

In spite of itself, baseball remains the national pastime—so it's only fitting that with America mired in crisis, the game would find a way to do the same. Alex Rodriguez's belated confession that he used steroids from 2001 to 2003, along with Miguel Tejada's guilty plea for lying to Congress about an ex-teammate* and Barry Bonds' upcoming trial for perjury, has brought Major League Baseball to the tipping point. Almost 100 years ago, a renegade group of baseball owners launched the short-lived Federal League. Soon, it will be possible to do that again, and sell the naming rights to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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