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Hello and welcome.

It's our number two, hour two of our radio show talking baseball.

And the San Diego Padres, the talk of the town, the pod squad.

Are they headed to Angel territory with Juan Soto being acquired?

Is that fair or foul?

We will debunk that story from an anonymous general manager comparing the Padres and the Angels. Also, why the snickering over San Diego's aggressive wheeling and dealing?

And what can the Padres do to avoid being the sequel of the halos?

We will talk about that.

And more right now.

It's our number two.

The King of San Diego has arrived, but not everyone's happy.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather's show as we are in the air everywhere,

face to face, as we pinky promise coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And stratiferically powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from chow as we hang out in the

chow line serving up fresh hot sports takes piping hot all night long from the comforts of the Fox Sports Radio studio,

somewhere in the magic radio box.

So our lead this hour comes from baseball, the post-mortem on the 2022 trade deadline,

and most of the focus in the conversation about baseball continues to be about the pod squad and san

Diego rocking the boat making the big moves at the deadline and wasn't the dodgers it

wasn't the Yankees or the Mets or the Red Sox the usual teams that do that it was the Padres now

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