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Hello and welcome.

It's our number four, hour four of a radio show and talking football,

the Steelers have finally replaced Ben Rothesberger out with the old,

in with the new Chicago Bears Trash.

Say what?

What is our initial reaction as the Steelers signed Mitch Trubisky,

adding a double meaning to the terrible towel.

Get to that and more right now in hour number four.

Here it is.

It is a different kind of steel, a different kind of steel.

Welcome in the beginning of another hour. It's the Ben

Mallor show and we are together in the air everywhere as we avoid the gathering clouds. Coast to

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

and strappingly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live from the land.

Not Disneyland, it's radio land, an imaginary audio place where listeners dwell.

Fox Sports Radio Studios at a secret location somewhere in the North Woods.

And so we are awaiting some of the big free agent signings in baseball.

And also for that matter, football, we had a number of players signing.

And some of them getting big contracts, Jacksonville.

Being just a drag, you could pay a lot of money.

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