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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three.

Hour number three of The Malar Show.

This hour, a baseball hour.

Our lead comes from Chicago and we examine the fallout and the collateral damage from the

savior of Saviors, Cubs GM Theo Epstein, quitting.

He quit.

He's a quitter.

He walked away from the Cubs, just like he walked away from the Red Sox.

Says he's going to take a year off.

Many people don't believe that.

So we look at his future here in our number three.

There's a saying that quitters never win and winners never quit.

Well, it's not necessarily true with one of the great executives in professional sports.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere, coast to coast, border to border and beyond as we filibuster the wee hours of the

morning away on the vast Fox Sports Radio Network emanating live inside the magic radio box,

also known as the Geico FSR Studios.

So our baseball lead this hour is kind of obvious if you've been paying attention, but maybe

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