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And so begins the weekday programming here at Fox Sports Radio.

There's ships passing in the night here as we kick off the week of radio.

And speaking of a week, it took almost a week, but we have a resolution between the Red Sox,

Dodgers and Twins, the Players Association got involved.

There was a lot of Hemming and Hahn.

People upset at each other, screaming, shouting, and all that.

But in the end, we got a deal.

We got a deal.

And if you've not been paying attention here and you've somehow been in a shoebox somewhere, you might have missed it.

But the trade, it's a metamorphosis of the trade.

So it's a version of the original trade, but not quite.

Not quite the same thing.

And here are the particulars. I guess you can use a word compromise.

Although, ironically, the Red Sox think they've come out ahead on this, but other people would

disagree. Now, Mookie Betts and the deadweight, David Price, still going to the Dodgers

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