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Panning for gold at the quarterback position.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Matherer Show.

We are in the air everywhere, as we have an ace in the hole, coast to coast, border to border, 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 here we are back at it again to get you through the late night hours,

the witching hour and beyond.

So we will get to the big story in baseball involving the Dodgers and the cheating Astros,

but we are waiting doing network radio.

We're covered up in some of our affiliates that are doing post-game programming. So we will wait to have the full audience be part of the live program. But there's

plenty of other things going on, including a story that caught my attention, which is our lead

this hour, out of the Bay Area. The 49ers have been singing the praises of rookie quarterback Trey Lance.

And it has crossed my radar now.

It's the talk of the NFL in many circles here.

If you've not been following, I get it.

It's still practice, not a game, not a game.

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