Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez has broken a raft of records over his 20 years in professional baseball. He batted in at least 100 runs in 14 seasons; his 10-year, $275 million contract was the largest ever in baseball; and, as of Monday, he has been given the most severe punishment ever for using performance-enhancing drugs, a 211-game suspension that, if upheld, will keep him off the field through all of next season. Twelve other players accepted 50-game suspensions, which will allow them to be eligible to play in this season’s playoffs.

One can only hope that Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Inc. and the new owner of The Washington Post, doesn’t mean it when he says he won’t be involved in the Post’s day-to-day operations. This is precisely where fresh thinking is needed in the newspaper business.