1.   And because of that, we have replacement baseball.

2.   And, friends, they are three of the best players on the Red-placement roster, so what does that say about replacement baseball?

3.   As a weapon for ending the strike, replacement baseball is firing blanks.

4.   As farcical as replacement baseball threatens to be, the owners plan to use it to try to lure striking players back to work.

5.   Beyond dropped balls, inept double plays and a rotund Pedro Borbon, replacement baseball now means lost advertising.

6.   Bill Usery Jr., the mediator, scheduled no new negotiations as replacement baseball moved closer to reality.

7.   A federal judge, the opposition of the Orioles and the indifference of fans all helped doom replacement baseball before the replacements exited spring training.

8.   But as replacement baseball vividly demonstrated, there are only a miniscule number of men in this country capable of playing in the major leagues.

9.   But I also would issue a permanent injunction against replacement baseball.

10.   But it is becoming increasingly clear as the clubs force themselves to find strikebreakers that the owners have another purpose in creating replacement baseball.