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Hello and welcome. It's our number three.

Our lead this hour comes from baseball.

And where are you on the big major league controversy de jure of the day?

It involves the now former Seattle Mariners CEO who had loose lips talking to a bunch of old dudes eating eggs and bacon at a rotary club meeting,

and he cost himself a really well-paying good job in Major League Baseball,

the fallout of that and more coming your way here in hour number three.

It is not not sleepless in Seattle.

It is unemployed in Seattle. Welcome in the beginning of another

hour of the Ben Mather Show. We are in the air everywhere as we blow hot air coast to coast, border to border and beyond, on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating life from inside the theater.

The theater of the mind.

So I leave this hour comes from Major League Baseball.

That's right. Major League Baseball. That's right.

Major League Baseball.

Spring training underway.

Have you been paying attention?

No, you haven't.

Bad job by you.

And it actually comes from a virtual Rotary Club meeting.

I'm not kidding, by the way.

Our lead comes from a virtual Rotary Club meeting that took place earlier in the month of February.

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