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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, our number three of the Ben Mather radio program.

And we thank you for downloading this hour.

It's a baseball hour.

What a wild night it was.

I was flipping around.

I watched the NBA game mostly, but earlier that game started at 9 o'clock Eastern,

6 o'clock in the West. So I had plenty of time to watch random East Coast Midwestern baseball games.

And I was checking out, the Nationals and the Phillies.

And Washington ace, Mack Scherzer going to Crazy Town, having a connoisse

connoissem fit on the mound.

Do you have any empathy for Max Scherzer who got into it with Joe Girardi?

We'll break that down for you.

And also others going full nudity, well, kind of in baseball.

That and more right now.

Here it is our number three.

File this one under ball busting.

Ball busting.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour, the Ben Mather Show.

Here we are together again in the air everywhere as we play musical chairs,

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