11.   Buck Showalter did not want to manage exhibition replacement games, but he will Thursday.

12.   Busch never revealed whether he would have crossed the line and played replacement games in the regular season.

13.   But Carper, the only pitcher from the Columbus affiliate, was agonizing over whether to play in replacement games.

14.   But the baseball players will find replacement picketers to strike the replacement games.

15.   But the definition of replacement games obviously is in the dictionary of the beholder.

16.   But they kept their distance on this, the first day of replacement exhibition games.

17.   But with the strike dragging on and pundits predicting that replacement games will turn off and perhaps even anger fans, advertisers are balking at sponsorships.

18.   By the time the teams played their third replacement games, the strike was over.

19.   Fehr termed a replacement game as being any game that would otherwise have major-league players in it.

20.   Except when it comes to replacement games.