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I have demands.

I have them demands.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mather's show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we sing the same tune, coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast.

And lavishly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the wind as we spit in the wind,

the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the Northwoods.

So we'll get to our lead story here in a minute,

but there is a situation percolating here in the overnight hours.

Last report, we're monitoring the situation coming out of the player-owner negotiations.

This is the final few minutes before we reach zero.

There are apparently a bunch of people sitting outside a parking lot in Jupiter, Florida right now.

And this is, I mean, we're at the, the wee hours.

For us, this is normal.

We're overnight people.

But for the billionaires and the millionaires of baseball, this is not,

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