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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, hour number two of our radio program.

And this hour, we focus in on the cheating Astros as they return to the scene of the crime,

Chavez Ravine, for the first time since cheating and getting caught cheating to win the 2017 World Series, which is a bogus championship.

The game was a dud, but it wasn't about the game.

It was about the subplot.

We grade on the Mallor report card, the Dodger fans on their boot-tastic performance.

That and much more.

It's coming your way right now in our number two.

The boo birds were chirping.

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

We are in the air everywhere as we strike up a friendship coast to coast, border to border

and beyond on the vast and powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the mouth,

the big mouth of the radio dialer hiding out here at the Fox Sports Radio Studios.

And we thank you for spending time with us.

We do appreciate it.

And our lead this hour coming from Major League Baseball.

It was anything but a random Tuesday night, the dog days of the baseball season,

that period after the All-Star break, which goes all the way into August and normally

to the end of August.

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