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Hello and welcome.

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

We go where the drama is.

That's where the story is.

In this hour, a good sports talk radio story from baseball.

It involves the Minnesota Twins and the Chicago White Sox.

A couple teams that don't get a lot of play on our show.

But we need stuff like this to drive the conversation. So we will grade the Mallor Report card, War of Words, between Josh Donaldson, the

Minnesota third basement, and the Chicago White Sox.

It went back and forth, Donaldson baiting the White Sox.

The White Sox taking the bait.

I'll give you the inside skinny on that, including some interesting audio.

It's coming your way right now in hour number four.

Rumblings Off the Diamond.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere as we hang by our eyelids, literally, coast to coast, border to border,

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

We do the hustle all night long into the early morning hours, and we are back at it again.

Our lead this hour comes from baseball, the drama-orama that is going on between a couple of American League teams

that don't normally get a lot of play, at least on our show.

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