Hello and welcome. It's our number one hour one of the Ben Mallor show in the podcast format.

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But here in our number one talking baseball, the angels have taken Shohei Otani off the

trade market, a story we talked about a couple days ago is now being repeated by several

other prominent baseball insiders.

So will the angels be haunted by not trading Shohei Otani?

Also, what happens next in the Otani speculation now that the angels have made another

trade that will react to?

Lucas Gialito of the Chicago White Sox, a SoCal guy coming back home.

Starting pitcher goes to Anaheim.

Also, thumbs up or thumbs down on Rob Manford's extension being good for baseball, the commissioner of the sport.

And we will also debut a new nickname, a tribute to a classic thing from years ago that we've inspired us to give Rob Manford a new nickname other than Manfred.

We'll get to all of that and much more.

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