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It's our number three, hour number three of the podcast, a rare baseball hour, but this is a juicy controversy.

It's the third round, my man.

The baseball scribes, some of them are desperately trying to have their vote done over for the Hall of Fame.

Why?

They voted for Kurt Schilling, and now they believe that there's a chance Schilling's going

to get into the Hall of Fame, and they're upset by that because they don't agree with

them politically, and so they want Schilling removed off the ballot.

We will explain this very bizarre story from the Hall of Fame votes coming your way right now here in

hour number three another day and another call for someone to be canceled this is a sports

story we will explain welcome in the beginning of the Ben Maller show for this hour we are in the air everywhere

as we round robin coast to coast border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones

of fsr emanating live from inside the magic radio box.

So early this hour comes from Cooperstown, the Pro Baseball Hall of Fame,

a wild story regarding the polarizing former Boston Red Sock pitcher Kurt Schilling.

Now, if you've not seen this, and maybe you missed it,

you're not into the Hall of Fame right now in Major League Baseball.

Well, Schilling is in hot water,

at least according to numerous Hall of Fame voters.

We have learned that these Hall of Fame voters,

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