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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, hour three of our radio program talking baseball. We had an international incident over the weekend in New York.

Should Max Scher have let the first pitch happen?

A big wig from Japan was scheduled to throw out the first pitch.

Scherzer would not get off the mound.

Why are Major League Baseball players such big jerks?

And can the Mets depend on Max Scher down the stretch of the baseball season?

We'll talk about that and more right now in hour number three.

Here it is.

It's that New York hospitality is what it is.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mallor's show as we are in the air everywhere, side by side.

As we make the grade, or at least attempt to, coast to coast, border to border and beyond, on the vast.

And ginormously powerful microphones of FSR emanating live and in stereo from the bull as the running of the bull crap

from the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the Northwoods.

Our lead this hour comes from baseball.

Now, I could have done a mowler monologue on the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Cincinnati Reds.

There was a no-hitter.

The Pirates got no-hit, but they won the game.

The Reds no-hit the Pirates. They lost it. won the game. The Reds no hit the pirates, they lost it.

And while talking about the Reds and Pirates might seem interesting if you're in

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