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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, our number three of our radio program.

And how damning is the viral video that appears to show New York Mets ace Jacob de Grom with some shady activity?

It looks like he was rubbing his hand on his glove, possibly a foreign substance on the glove, a maller show,

investigation into the video.

We'll get to that right now.

Here it is our number three.

It seemingly was inevitable.

The biggest name on the mound in baseball has now been dragged into a sticky goo.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere. As we talk miles from nowhere nowhere coast to coast, border to border and beyond

on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR as we emanate live from the sweatshop,

slaving over a hot microphone here, the Fox Sports Radio Studios, hope all is well.

Our lead this hour does come from the big leagues,

and in particular, a player that we talked about a little bit at the end of last hour,

that would be New York Metropolitan's ace Jacob de Grom,

who has not allowed more than one earn run during any of his nine starts

so far this season. That's pretty good, apparently. His ERA is at 0.62. It's a half run lower than

the record-setting stretch that Bob Gibson had back in the 1960s.

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