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

There's days like this.

I come in here and I keep hearing this voice in my head, like,

play the hits!

You got to play the hits!

I keep hearing that, right?

And I'm like, well, if I'm going to play the hits,

I can't really go with Nashville and Winnipeg.

I thought it was... I thought it was a really gutsy effort by Peca Rene.

I thought he was wondering.

I don't want to do a deep dive on that.

You know, he really answered the call, and you did.

But do I need to really break that down?

And as much as I, you know, big, long timetime, lifetime Red Sock fan, and they won in Yankee Stadium,

it's a big rivalry and all that, and we'll get there at some point.

So then I had this voice in my head from some other programming genius that told me,

Ben, it doesn't really matter what you talk about,

but you got to have passion for it.

You got to be into it because the person listening,

you can figure out when you're being a phony.

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