Major League Baseball needs a stronger drug policy.

The continuing will-he-or-won’t-he saga of Brett Favre’s return to the Packers averted a meltdown as Favre did not report to camp on Sunday…. only to be prolonged by the possibility of Favre showing-up at camp on Wednesday. Favre spoke by phone with General Manager Ted Thompson who reiterated what the Packers have been saying all along: Aaron Rogers is now the man at QB and the Packers have moved on and out of the Brett Favre era. Thompson begged-off Favre until Wednesday hoping to “get something worked out” in way of a trade but implicit in the message was “Please stay away.”

Favre’s threat to show-up at camp and “compete” for the starting job struck us as somewhat creepy…. Like showing up at your ex-girlfriend’s first date, post-you.

We hope that Favre just returns quietly to his farm down in Mississippi where we can think of him running around with his dog and playing two-hand touch football with the extras in Wrangler blue jeans commercials. With training camps opening across the country, there is too much good football information to get into, dissect and discuss without having the drama queen dominate the news cycle to the exclusion of everything else.

To wit: Only the NFL Network could take a mid-season 10-9 snoozer between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers and have it featured in their “Mic’d-up” series (where selected players and coaches including head coaches Mike Nolan and Brian Billick.. oh joy!.. are wired for sound) as it did last night and transform it into pure drama. Our sympathy is near-bottomless towards those NFL fans who live in the blight of a NFL Network-less cable company regime.

Peter King of SI.com has more of the Favre saga here.