Gary Cohen attempted to sidestep the political aspects of the conversation

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00:00Shaw had Cubs world in a tizzy this weekend when he was not here for the Cubs game with the Reds.

00:09And they lost 1-0, and in which his lack of presence was felt,

00:14it was later revealed that he had been given permission to attend Charlie Crump's funeral.

00:21And I don't want to talk about any of the politics of it,

00:23but the thought of leaving your team in the middle of a race for any reason other than a family emergency really strikes me as weird.

00:34It's unusual. I think it's unprecedented, at least from my experience as a player.

00:42And I think it made it a little bit more unusual that it was not revealed until after it came to an issue

00:51because he was thought to be in the dugout and maybe available and then was not.

00:59Well, that's how it was revealed.

01:01So it became maybe more of a story than it could have been had it been addressed from the beginning.

01:06Now, let's talk about a story.