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

And if you thought I was going to start this show with the charbroiling of the Chicago Cubs,

you're wrong.

You lost a bet.

I'm waiting for my third base coach, Danny G, to give you the signal.

The all-clear signal, once I get the all all clear signal, then we will stop all programming,

and we will shift to full-on,

in-depth team coverage of a team on the cusp

of going to the world effing series.

As soon as I get the go sign, it's on. It is on. But until I get the go sign, it's on.

It is on.

But until I get the go sign, there are other things that have my attention.

There are other things that caught my attention.

For example, I was watching the NBA doublehead.

My remote control got quite the workout.

It's going back and forth between the

baseball games and the NBA games because there is nothing more important than the first game

of an 82 game regular season when by mid-December, the star players of the NBA will be

suddenly hurt with phantom injuries to avoid having to play.

Not back-to-backs because the NBA got rid of most of those, but just to avoid to play, avoiding to play.

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