51.   The regular season opens in less than three weeks and, if it opens with replacement baseball, the Mets are nowhere near capable of fielding a respectable team.

52.   The shortstop is aware that the closer replacement baseball comes, the more intense the debate will be about his role in the battle.

53.   The taxes will even keep flowing during replacement baseball.

54.   There is a lot that replacement baseball will be fighting.

55.   They are the worst team in a spring training marked by bad replacement baseball.

56.   They say replacement baseball beats no baseball.

57.   This year was sabotaged by replacement baseball and a shortened spring training that contributed to the terrible first half of the season.

58.   Thus, the idea for replacement baseball was born.

59.   We can do this decisively and loudly by supporting replacement baseball.

60.   While some players who never advanced beyond Class A vowed that replacement baseball would be decent, the statistics from their mediocre pasts made observers wonder.