From the Dark Side: November 2000 Archives

The dust had barely settled at Bank One Ballpark after the World Series when Major League Baseball's equivalent to Forest Gump made his way to Washington D.C. to tell the United States Congress about the state of baseball. He ranted and raved about what dire straits America's pastime was in. In the midst of his dissertation he uttered a word unheard of within the context of baseball in over a century, "Contraction".