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Welcome in the beginning of another week of the Ben Mather show.

We are kicking it off in the air everywhere as we drop the mic coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live. under the moonlight camouflaged by the darkness.

The Fox Sports Radio Studios hope all is well.

You had a good weekend.

We are back at it again.

Our lead this hour coming from the transaction wire professional baseball.

We're going to start with some baseball.

And the same weekend, the Dodgers lost the reigning World Series most valuable player

Corey Seeger for a good amount of time to a broken hand.

He got hit on the hand, his right hand over the weekend against the Marlins.

It came out that they had added or about to add a big name to the roster, at least a big

name if you have a time machine and can go back a decade or so.

If you didn't see this and maybe you were actually doing stuff for the weekend,

you were not paying attention, which is always possible.

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