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Hello and welcome.

It's our number one.

Our number one.

Ben Mallor Radio Show repackaged in the podcast format. Here we are together again, and we will start out the festivities on a Wednesday with baseball.

Big story, Major League Baseball, leaking a report that the Oakland Athletics scedaddle out of Oakland,

floating Viva Las Vegas as a possibility.

We put the odds out on whether the A's stay or whether the A's leave the Bay Area,

place they've been since 1968.

That and more.

It's coming your way right now.

Here it is our number one.

Time to update the report card.

Welcome in the beginning of yet another edition of the Ben Maler show.

Back at it again, we are in the air everywhere as we dispense background noise, coast to coast, border to border and beyond emanating live from the flight deck soaring on the red eye all night long the Fox Sports Radio Studios here

as we blow V8 on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR.

And good to have you along, Hope All as well in your world.

I thought we'd change it up a little bit at the beginning here.

And we will push it back now on Aaron Rogers.

We will put that on the side, and we'll get back to that at some point as developments warrant.

But our lead this hour coming from the diamond, And is it true?

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