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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Hour number one of the Ben Maller Radio podcast for a Monday, Monday, Monday.

And we are out of the gates with Dodger baseball.

Trevor Bauer, the reigning National League Cy Young winner, putting his teammates on blast.

The Dodgers lead baseball in one-run losses, and they've lost 15 of the last 20, and Bowers had enough.

We parse the words of Trevor Bauer and explain why that should have come from Dave Roberts,

that rant, this and more here in our number one.

How blue do you do?

As in not good, welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather show.

We are in the air everywhere as we chatterbox coast to coast, border to border and beyond, beginning a new week on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as we soar on the red eye all night long here hanging out from the microphones of Fox Sports Radio,

the FSR studios.

Hope you had a great weekend.

We are back at it again.

Our lead this hour coming from professional baseball, the defending champions, playing like chumps.

And they took it on the chin again.

We're talking about the Dodgers.

They lost two to one the bums to the angels. like chumps and they took it on the chin again. We're talking about the Dodgers.

They lost 2 to 1 the bums to the Angels on Sunday.

And this continues a limbo.

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