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This is the best of the Ben Mallor show on Fox Sports Radio.

We will have coming up in a little bit the pregame show.

We're going to break format later this hour, our fight pregame show.

So the Ben Maller show will cease within the first half hour here,

and we will have pregame coverage of the verbal octagon.

So we have that to look forward.

A Bafo Sacco.

Three-round verbal sparring match and the wagering came to an end. We'll have an update on that. But I wanted to start

with football

and a little hand talk. It's always good when you hear men talking about other men's hands.

Now, I did a lot of radio yesterday, much more radio than I'm doing today,

and I'm going to estimate I've done, this will be my fourth Mallor monologue on another man's hands.

This reminds me of a similar situation.

It was about hands.

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