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Hey, it's Ben.

I hope you're having a wonderful time, whatever you are doing today.

And I want to thank you again for being a loyal minion of the show.

It does help us out a lot. It's great that you subscribe to the show and you actually listen to the show.

I say you don't actually have to listen, just subscribe to the show. But it certainly helps when you do listen to the show. It just makes it more fun. It really does. So coming up on

today's show, we will talk a lot about what happened between the

Astros and the Tampa Bay Rays and how concerned Houston should be the top team in baseball

having to now play a single elimination game five against the upstart Tampa Bay Rays. And we had

live action overnight when we did this show on the live broadcast as the

NBA and China reacted. It was the middle of the afternoon in China overnight here in the

United States. And we had live updates on incidents that were happening in real time. And you'll

hear some of that content during the show here.

And also, Steve Kerr and James Harden, let's just say they're not looking so good with some soundbites that have been saved.

And the NFL dealing with a handshake scandal, not a fist bump, a handshake between Baker, Mayfield, and Richard Sherman,

and is a Major League Baseball franchise relocating to Vegas.

And Rob Manford, not only leaving the door open,

throwing it out there as a possibility that Sin City could end up with the baseball team.

Holy Pete Rose, right? We'll have that game show fun,

some big name callers, some of your favorites and some of your most despised callers,

all the same calling in. So have a great day and sit back, relax, and enjoy today's edition

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