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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, hour three of our radio program, we put on our legal hat right now.

Into the courtroom we go.

It did not take a jury very long at all to find a conviction in the trial of a death of a major league baseball player.

Did the jury get it right with the decision to convict the angel communications guy

for being solely responsible for pitcher Tyler Skaggs' death?

I go against the herd right now in our number three.

Here it is.

The verdict is in.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour.

It's the Ben Mather show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we hide in the background.

Just some background noise here.

Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond on the vast.

And immeasurably powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the pit, the armpit of the radio schedule overnights The Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the Northwood.

So a follow-up to a conversation we had a couple of days ago.

Our lead this hour coming from a courthouse in Texas.

We have the verdict in the trial of Angels Communications Director Eric Kay over the death

of pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

This story goes back to 2019.

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