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I guess it was Rutschman, I guess, right?

Or Henderson, pardon me, afterwards.

So, I mean, top of the order.

The whole point of using Hoffman the way they've been using him lately is so that he does not have to see the top of the order.

Maybe the damage had already been done at that point.

But, I mean, yeah, there's not a lot of ways you can slice this without it being an ugly discussion, essentially.

For a while, yeah.

All right, I'm going to read you a couple of texts here, so bear with me, all right?

Let's see.

I'm going to save that one because I think it's about Trey Savage.

Chris in Victoria.

why not run Varland out for the ninth and two innings save, give Hoffman an extra day off.

I, you know, I kind of get not running.

Look, I, I think knowing what we know now, I would have done that.

Right.

But at the same time, at the time of a five, one lead to all the things you said about, could you have run Seabold out there?

Then Hoffman to clean things up.

If he got into trouble, should they just have gone to someone else entirely?

I mean, could have Brayden Fisher been or not, whatever, whatever the options could have been.

I kind of understand the thinking at the time with a five,