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I think you're right.

Personally, I'm cool with him going to Varland even in a non-save situation.

Some of the stats don't necessarily favor him in non-save situations in particular.

Again, I mean, I don't think this is what Lorne was saying at all, but I don't think anyone's going to be all that upset with Louie given that he has been electric for, what, like 98% of the season.

So, yeah, I'm not going to put this one.

I mean, it wasn't a great pitch to Goldschmidt, but, you know, Goldschmidt probably a future Hall of Famer, I think.

Look, I think I'd probably put him in.

I think so.

I think I'd put him in Cooperstown if it was up to me.

So, you know.

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