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

Our friend Bartola Colon made his debut for the Minnesota Twins against the New York Yankees.

And for a couple of innings, it looked like Bartolo Colon had fattened up and was ready to go.

He'd figured out what was wrong in Atlanta and was actually dazzling in the first

handful of innings. In fact, the Yankees didn't score the first three innings of the game.

Then after that, the old Bartolo returned and he vomited all over the mountain. It's like he had

too much food at the buffet. And he ended up getting the loss. The Yankees get the mountain. It's like he had too much food at the buffet.

And he ended up getting the loss.

The Yankees get the win.

And then after the Yankee game,

it was announced that Brian Cashman had started the wheeling and dealing.

Now, we've already had a couple of trades in baseball. But now, Todd Fras, down goesasch. He was a healthy scratch in the White Sox lineup,

was not in the lineup against the Dodgers. The game of Dodgers won, one to nothing in Chicago.

And the chatter was picking off. It seemed like the Red Sox were going to get Todd Frazier. They

have a gaping hole at third base.

And then the Yankees, the last minute, the Yankees stepped in.

It was a two-horse race.

Yankees, Red Sox down in the stretch, they come to try to make a trade with Chicago.

And in the end, when it was all done, the Yankee game and end of the White Sox game was over.

The deal was complete.

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