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There are worse moments to give up, or worse guys to give up home runs, too, even if that's not ideal in the particular result from this particular game.

What did you make of Lauren's comments on David Schneider in terms of his usage and getting called up now that Varshow's on the I.L.

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We do have, according to Luke Swadron and Nick Blackmore, our producers, we do have some audio to play.

John Schneider, of course, as you might imagine, was asked about the decisions we were talking about, not pinch-hitting for McAdoo, bunting Clement in that spot.

Let's hear them both.

First, though, let's hear, because Lauren just brought it up, so we'll go in reverse order.

Schneider on not pinch-hitting Charles McAdoo late in the eighth inning.

Here's the skipper.

um... trusted him to command the zone and were a little bit limited today on the bench so there you go that's the thought process behind not pinch hitting for uh... Charles McAdoo bringing in Kirk again I mean look this is not a criticized Charles McAdoo thing it's just I know Guy was talking about you know he's not ready and so on I generally and again very small sample size I've liked what I've seen from McAdoo he also

kept the game at 1-1 when, what, there was Tyler Rodgers on the mound, runners on first and third with two outs, and he makes the diving stop on the ground ball to, I think it was Jason Dominguez, makes the diving stop, gets the first, keeps the game tied 1-1.

So there have been positives in his game.

I know that's on defense, talking about offense here with him, but it's less about McAdoo and more just if you want, I think you were the one who used the term professional A.B.

from a guy in Alejandro Kirk who we know

can command a strike zone relatively well.

I think that's why a lot of people take umbrage with it, and that's why I do personally.

Yeah, and I don't have any issue with him not starting today, for example, right?

Yeah, exactly.

That's not even a Blue Jays thing.

I think most teams do that, right?