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Hello and welcome.

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

And we begin this hour talking basketball.

The Greek freak goes down.

Down goes the freak.

Janice Adentacombo. And the Hawks blow out the Milwaukee bucks to even up the Eastern Finals.

How does Milwaukee allow that to happen?

We examine the carnage here in our number one.

The Bucks stop here.

They stop playing here for now.

And maybe for the rest of the playoffs.

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

Glad to have you along.

We are in the air everywhere as we do some heavy lifting coast to coast, border to order,

and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from under the moonlight.

Camouflaged by the darkness, the Fox Sports Radio Studios, and you are locked and loaded with us.

And so our lead this hour coming from the Eastern Conference Finals of the NBA, deep

in the Empire State of the South with peaches in the air everywhere.

The Milwaukee Bucks attempting to take a three to one lead over the Hawks.

Another one of these games that seemed going in like it was going to go one direction

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