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

I had planned to do a full maller rant about Matt Kemp versus the Texas Rangers.

And I plan on doing that, but I'm not going to do it right now.

The reason I'm not going to do it, full disclosure, truth in broadcasting. The biggest affiliate we have on Fox Sports

Radio. In the number one radio market in Los Angeles, we're being covered up by Dodger

post-game programming. So I feel like I need to wait. I feel like I need to wait. The Dodger game

just ended a few minutes ago. They beat the Texas Rangers three to two. We had a dust-up baseball style.

I loved it.

I have a lot of thoughts on that, but I'm going to wait.

There's other things that have my attention.

Like, for example, I was perusing some of the random baseball games.

I watched the Red Sox Orioles game during the day.

And then I was flipping around the night card, and I watched a good chunk of the Washington

Nationals and the New York Yankees.

I was able to witness Bryce Harper through the magic of television, go 0 for 4, when 0

4, hitting 224 on the year.

And I got to say, this is a wonderful way to break up the monotony,

the drudgery of the Major League Baseball season.

Now, the nationals won the game five to four.

They got a run in the seventh inning,

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