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So this hour talking baseball at Finway Park, the American League Championship Series,

game number four, the Astros, the cheaters come back to beat Boston.

Has the Red Sox postseason magic worn off, inquiring minds would like to know.

We'll get to that right now in hour number two.

There's a hole in those socks, I believe. Welcome in the beginning of yet another hour of the Ben Mather show.

We are in the air everywhere.

We're not ready for primetime.

Coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast.

And mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the theater.

The hot take theater in the bowels of the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location in the Northwoods.

And so we are back at it again this hour.

And baseball, the focus will change gears, though,

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