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Hello and welcome. It's our number two, our two of our radio program and we go to baseball.

Our first swing in the batters box at the big story over the last few days.

How big a debacle is Fernando Tatease Jr.'s steroid suspension?

And what did you make of Tatease's ringworm alibi?

And will Fernando Tatease Jr.

ever be able to get past this in San Diego?

He's locked up through the 2034 season for a whole lot of American currency.

We'll talk about that and more right now in our number two.

What do you do in the face of the franchise turns out to be a loser?

What do you do?

Well, we're about to find out.

It's a great science experiment taking place in San Diego.

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

We are in the air everywhere right next door as we have the sinking feeling for the Padres coast to coast border to border

and beyond on the vast and unreasonably powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the lab as we

practice rocket science all night long the fox sports radio

studios at a secret location somewhere in the north woods and so our lead this hour coming

from baseball baseball's been very very good to me, I had some family in town last week, so I do take a couple days away from the radio show.

I ended up having a very brief hiatus, and I was not in my watchtower there, spending some quality time with family.

But while we were away from the catbird seat, the guillotine fell on the neck of one of the top stars of the sport of baseball.

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