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Closing in on work, or is he closing in on work?

Welcome in the beginning of the Ben Mallor show.

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And we will have some fun tonight.

Now, I will point out that later on we do things a little differently here.

But we'll be ranting about a number of different things.

The one that caught my attention that I wanted to start with,

I'm on a one-man crusade to get people jobs. Well, to get Des Bryant a job. I want to get Des Bryant a job.

The guy's not in the NFL right now. He's provided us with tremendous content here in the land of sports talk gas baggery with his shenanigans, his nonsense, his mannerisms on the sidelines,

the bad body language.

It is glorious.

It's wonderful, and it's wrong that Des Bryant is not in the NFL.

So we had a couple weeks to go before training camp opens up in the NFL.

Right around the time the baseball All-Star game takes place, just shortly after that.

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