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It's why we watched the game, right?

The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat.

But what if there is no agony of defeat?

Because the games are over in the first three innings.

Welcome in the beginning of another edition of the Ben Mallor show.

We are in the air everywhere in unison as we hang with an armada of like-minded souls.

Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and unrelentingly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the machine, a lean, mean,

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And our lead this hour coming from baseball.

Now, in my head, the cartoon bubble over my head, I was like, oh, this is going to be great.

I got up early to watch both games. I'm like, there's going to be a lot of great things to break down here. We can slice and dice them. And, man, it's going to make for great talk radio. Great sports talk radio. Can't I wait. And then I watched the game. It was the American League side of the playoff bracket. It was on Fox.

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