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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three of the podcast, a baseball hour.

But no, no, no.

It's not about any of the teams that are in the postseason.

This is about a team that won't make the postseason.

One of the worst teams in baseball this year, the angels who are turning to divine intervention,

a baseball mercenary, or are they, to save the career of Mike Trout, we will discuss the

name, the big name that has popped up on the

baseball radar to save the Woebegone Angel franchise.

That and more here in our number three.

Here it is.

In need of divine intervention, welcome in the beginning of the Ben Maler show for this hour.

We are in the air everywhere, coast to coast, border to border, and beyond as we bloviate the overnight hours away.

And glad you have spent time as we emanate live, spend time with us as we emanate live from the Geico

Fox Sports Radio Studios, 15 minutes, you know the drug, save you a bunch of money and all that good stuff.

So we begin this hour with baseball.

Now the playoffs are going to start next week.

Playoffs, that's right, the baseball playoffs starting next week.

But this hour about a team that's not going to be in the playoffs.

Most of the teams are in.

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