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Welcome.

It's our number one, hour one of the original recipe podcast.

And we are locked and loaded on this All-Star Tuesday, the 15th day of July.

And the home run derby was last night.

Do you buy in to the conspiracy theory that Major League Baseball took care of Cal Raleigh to help him advance and eventually win the home run derby?

Some funny business by Rob Manfred's Major League Baseball.

Also, where are you at on baseball handing a $1 million oversized cartoon check to the person

winning the home run derby?

Who, oh, by the way, also has a $100 million contract.

And thumbs up or thumbs down, should Mariner fans be paranoid because Cal Raleigh is going to go into a slump now because of the home run derby jinks.

We'll go there as well.

Right now, here it is.

Our number one.

Now, it's not just your normal run-of-the-mill home-run derby.

No, no, no, no.

We've got to crank it off a couple of notches for the big dumper.

Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben Maler show.

We are in the air everywhere as we pop over for a visit.

Say good morning, good evening, or good whatever it is.

In your part of the world, we're hanging out here coast to coast, border to border,

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