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Hello and welcome.

It's our number three, hour number three of our radio program and our lead this hour from sports media and baseball.

Big story here involving an MLB insider.

Are you going to buy or sell Ken Rosenthal being dumped from MLB Network for past criticism of Rob Manford.

That's the story.

Do you buy it or sell it?

We'll get to that right now in hour number three.

When the insider becomes the outsider, welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malar show.

We are together in the air everywhere as we speak in dribs and drabs, coast to coast, border to border,

and beyond on the vast and massively powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the sweatshop,

slaving over a hot microphone in the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere

in the Northwoods.

I hope you're doing well.

We're back at it again.

We're going to do something a little different this hour,

and we'll talk.

It's about baseball,

but it's more about the media and about the relationship between sports leagues

and the truth,

and whether that matters at all because I feel like it doesn't really

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