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A welcome fit for a cheater.

No, no, that's actually not what happened.

Wait a minute.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallor show. We are in the air everywhere as we speak from the bully pulpit coast to coast,

border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck soaring on the red eye all night long.

The Fox Sports Radio Studios hope all as well with you.

Our lead this hour comes from the diamond.

There's a couple of ways we could have gone on this show.

But this story, the one that interested me the most.

And so I wanted to talk about that, specifically the return of A.J. Hinch to Houston.

Now, I don't know if you were paying attention to baseball on a Monday night.

Perhaps not.

Perhaps you were watching something else or not watching sports at all. I have no idea what you were paying attention to baseball on a Monday night, perhaps not. Perhaps you were watching something else or not watching sports at all.

I have no idea what you were doing.

I'm not spying on you.

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