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Here we go.

Welcome.

It's our number three.

Hour three of the original recipe podcast. Happy Tuesday, the third day of December, talking some baseball.

Has Juan Soto agreed to a contract? No, he is not.

However, there is some baseball news.

Rob Manford, or as we like to call him, Manfred, the commissioner, said there's buzz around a golden at-bat rule among Major League Baseball owners.

How does this sound to you?

We'll analyze what this would mean in the big picture.

Also, we'll go back to football where Coach Dan Campbell says he did not, quote, give a crap that running back Jamir Gibbs leaked the lion code words for the world to see on the internet.

What's your viewpoint on this one?

And the Rams have made a claim and they have acquired former commander's first round pick, Emmanuel Forbes off waivers.

How do you appraise this one? We'll talk about that and

much more right now. Here it is. Hour number three. A diamond in the rough. Welcome in the beginning

of another hour of the Ben Maler show.

We are together yet again.

We're in the air everywhere, melting your eardrums as we unlock the rhythm of the night.

Coast to coast, border to border and beyond.

On the vast.

And mischievously, powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the pepper.

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