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Hello and welcome. It's our number three, our number three of our radio show and podcast format with limited commercial interruption.

We have asked Ben this hour to Newby Night, and we begin with a Mallor monologue, very

verbose monologue about the New York metropolitans who have decided to practice a World

Series celebration during spring training in Port St. Lucy.

Fair or foul?

Fair or foul?

The Mets acting like they had won the World Series on an empty field at a minor

league spring training ballpark in Florida.

We discuss right now on our number three.

Well, it certainly beats those cover first base drills, I would three. Well, it certainly beats those cover-first base drills, I would say.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere as we provide running commentary, coast-to-coast, border-to border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from inside the theater.

The theater of the mind.

So our lead this hour comes from the New York Mets.

Baseball. Well, it's about the New York Mets. Baseball.

Well, it's about the Metropolitan specifically.

It's baseball story in general.

They were the talk of the baseball world, the Mets.

Now, what did they do here?

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