But Torre cannot replace the experience or the balance O'Neill brings to the batting order.
It doesn't at all replace the experience of the museum as we know it.
Neither company's tours replace the experience of a real visit.
Nothing can replace the experience of sustained and engaged reading throughout childhood.
True, apps can't replace the experience of gazing at art in person.
But while nothing can replace the experience of seeing a masterpiece up close, the Web means that museum education is no longer geographically restricted.
No likeness, however compellingly rendered, can replace the experience of standing before an actual object, taking in its scale, color, texture and provenance.
"It doesn't replace the experience, but it helps people understand what it's like up there," said Robert Hammond, a co-founder of Friends of the High Line.
No one expects VLES to replace the experience of visiting the real thing, nor can it possibly keep up with trends in music, cuisine and clothing that the scene is inventing in real time.
Dr. Kohomban said that as hard as his staff tried, the cottages on his Dobbs Ferry campus, which house 12 to 14 boys each, could not replace the experience of a private home.
