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Call it a real-life, Bauer Outrage.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere as we schmooze coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from deep inside the magic radio box, the Fox Sports Radio Studio.

So our lead this hour comes from Major League Baseball.

There's a lot going on today.

It's been a busy period, a busy cycle in the world of sports.

Now, we have trouble in paradise just a week into the baseball season.

Now, this involves Trevor Bauer.

If you've not been paying attention, maybe you missed it.

So let me give you the thumbnail version of events here.

We have learned that Major League Baseball's investigative arm is snooping around into some dirty balls that were collected.

Trevor Bowers' dirty balls.

And this goes back to Wednesday, the A's and Dodgers playing a game, which would be gifted to Oakland by Kenley Jansen,

who puked all over the mound.

But Trevor Bauer started that game and pitched pretty well, pretty well against the

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