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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four.

Hour number four of our radio show, Roger Goodell with the unmitigated goal,

defending, defending his punishment of the Washington team to be named later owner, Dan Snyder.

Is Roger Goodell coming under fire at the NFL's owners meetings in Midtown Manhattan. Do you think that Dan Snyder has been held accountable for the 650,000 email scandal around the team formerly known as the Redskins?

We'll give you that and more right now in our number four.

Call him Roger the Dodger, but not an L.A. Dodger.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mather Show, we are together in the air everywhere

as we avoid the junkyard dog coast to coast, border to border and beyond on the vast.

And mighty powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the bowl.

Not that bowl, the fishbowl, the Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location in the Northwoods.

At the end of nowhere, which is actually somewhere.

Who knew?

All right.

So this hour, we will talk some football.

Now, the big story, the World Series, the Atlanta Braves, the good guys, got the

jump on the cheating Astros in game one.

We'll get back to that in a bit,

but our lead comes from the public relations files of the National Football League, where Roger Goodell spoke at the NFL's owners meetings in Gotham,

the commissioner answering questions on a variety of topics,

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