Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.

I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.

How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.

Money has to be put in the way a club feels it should. If you put money in a new ballpark, that helps to generate revenue so you can spend more money. It should be spent to make the club's operations the best. That will help in the end, and it will mean enhanced payroll.

I do have a lot of concerns but I am happy to say the Mets aren't one of them.