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Sanchez said he often ends up working six or seven 12-hour shifts weekly because it’s hard to find a guard willing to fill in for him on weekends.

Sweeney was promoted from triple-A on Aug. 16 to fill in for the hugely disappointing and overpaid Javier Báez, who is out for the season with a hip injury.

Those of us who have taken a high-school civics class, or seen at least one episode of “The West Wing” or “Veep,” understand that the main function of the vice president is to support the president, occasionally fill in for the president and, most important, assume the office of the presidency should the president die or become incapacitated.

The Forest Service has regularly maintained full staffing levels in Southern California this summer by bringing in resources from other regions and out of state to fill in for engine companies that are unavailable, and daily reports cited by the fire chiefs that list Forest Service stations as unstaffed don’t necessarily reflect those “surge resources,” she said.

To fill in for the debate’s abysmal silences, here are a few quotes from the afterword about the ongoing carnage: