Hello and welcome. It's a baseball monologue here in hour or two talking baseball.

The Dodgers have dropped into third place in the National League West.

Panic at the Dodger disco.

Are the Dodger pitchers merely dealing with rotten luck?

That's the implication being made by some in the Dodgers organization.

Why are the Dodgers in this predicament?

And what is your level of concern for the Dodgers here as we are almost midway through the baseball season?

We'll talk about all that and more right now.

Here it is our number two.

Big Blue as in P.U.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather Show.

We are in the air everywhere, forming a band as, hey, we juggle the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat on a nightly basis.

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

And here, catchingly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the mound spewing audio curveballs all night long.

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Talks from baseball this hour and a team that did not play on Monday, but by request, my inbox filled up, people very upset that I did not give the full

Malar monologue treatment to the Boys in Blue.

And so I figured, well, by request, you know, I'm easy to please.

And if you complain enough, if you rip me enough, I'll go down that road.

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