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Welcome in the beginning of yet another edition of the Ben Mallor show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we run the gauntlet coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the flight deck as we soar on the red eye all night long hanging out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

Hope all is well.

We survived the talent show in the previous episodes.

We also survived a hostile takeover tank by the Gremlins, and we have killed all the Gremlins for now.

So our lead this hour coming from the All-Star game.

You likely anticipated that, that we would begin talking about Major League Baseball.

They had the sporting stage all to themselves.

Nothing else of note, as Eddie would say, took place in the professional sports world on a random Tuesday night in July.

No competition.

So the National League versus the American League, we like to ask the question, did you watch?

We'll find out the wellness report for the All-Star game will come out in the next day or so,

and we will have an idea of how many people were actually watching.

But maybe you missed it, so we watched.

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