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And so this hour, we begin with baseball, big contract coming out of nowhere, the Red Sox opening up the pocketbook and spending some big money on a scale of 1 to 10.

How much did the backlash from the fans in Boston impact the Red Sox giving Raphael Devers

an 11-year $330 million contract?

Do the Red Sox get back to their big spending ways now

that they've signed Raphael Devers?

And will Devers be able to live up to this massive contract in the Commonwealth?

We'll talk about all of that.

And a whole lot more as we spin around the audio dial right here in

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of the Ben Mallor show we are in the air everywhere, chilling in the audio world as we soldier on, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast and irresistibly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live.

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And our lead to begin the festivities are the rare and appropriate baseball monologue in early January.

There is still no resolution to the impasse between the ex-cheating

Astro, Carlos Correa, and the Metropolitan.

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