experiencing the news each day can feel like a journey with up first from npr though it doesn't have to be welcome to 15 easy minutes of breaking news clarity on international and national affairs and a casual tone that you can take in with breakfast begin your day informed ready and refreshed Begin your day with Up First.

Subscribe to Up First from NPR on the IHeart Radio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mallor Show podcast.

Be sure to catch us live every weeknight from 2 to 6 Eastern 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. Pacific on Fox Sports Radio.

And to find your local station for the Ben Mather Show at Fox Sports Radio.com, you can find it there.

Or stream us live every night on the IHeart Radio app by searching FSR.

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

Now, in my analysis of what we could talk about, there's several different directions.

We came to a fork in the road.

And I decided in our little ecosystem that we have here in the cover of darkness, being covered up by moonlight and all that.

For us, there is no better story.

There is no more relevant story.

There is no more important story than the cheaters from Texas.

And I'm talking about those scoundrels that play baseball in Houston.

And every day there's something that comes out.

Every day there's something comes out.

Now, for example, the latest on this, a former Astros player, Marwin Gonzalez, who was a key kind of reserve part-time guy for the 2017 World Series Astros.

He has now come out and apologized for his role in the illicit espionage scandal that has rocked

professional baseball.

I don't know if you saw this or not.

Maybe you didn't hear it and whatnot.

Now, Gonzalez told reporters that Minnesota Twinscamp,

...