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It's our number two.

Our number two, the Ben Malar Radio show, recorded and saved.

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So this hour, baseball is the lead.

Max Scherzer, the much-bally-hooed, Max Scherzer, put on the Dodger Blue for the first time and went out and painted a masterpiece in his first start for Los Angeles

against the cheating Astros, a full blow-by-blow.

Breakdown.

We go to the judge's scorecard on Max Scherzer's Dodger debut.

We do it right now.

Mad Max added again, but for the first time in La La Land, welcome in the beginning of another

hour of the Ben Mather show on a newbie night.

We are in the air everywhere as we bulldoze into it, coast to coast, border to border,

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

the court of public opinion, the Fox Sports Radio studios, and we thank you for spending

some time with this.

So our lead does come from baseball.

It was the end of the mini two-game showdown between the Dodgers and the cheating Astros.

Now, typically, regular season baseball does not move the needle much in these parts, but

this is different.

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