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

I'm missing something about the big story of the night in baseball.

We'll get to that coming up in a couple of minutes.

By the way, I'm back.

I was sent away to an exotic location now.

You're fired.

I have learned over the years that you, the listener, don't really care about my life that much,

and so you don't really want to know that much about it, but I will, if you want,

I have a travel log, Mallor's Travelog that I kept.

It's a little diary.

Oh, no.

And I can do that later, but if you don't want it, I won't do it.

I'll just talk about generic, boring sports stories, which is what most people who do this job do.

But if you want to hear about my wild adventures in the Oceana area of the world,

then we'll do that. The big story, it is the shake-up of shake-ups. And I know it's past the typical

24-hour news cycle, but the good thing about this, I'm very lucky, the Kyrie Irving trade has legs.

It's got strong legs.

It's got powerful legs, and it's got the kind of legs that are worthy of more conversation.

Now, you know Boston deciding to put several key components into a blender.

And then Danny Haines walked over and whatever the top speed on the blender, the turbo button,

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