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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the right time.

My name is Beaumonti Jones. Thanks for listening wherever you get your podcast.

Rate us, review us, give us five stars, you only give us four stars, I'm inclined to believe

you are a hater. It is that time of week where we have a guest join us coming to us live from a

metal-large media, ESPN, a lot of books. Howard Bryant was going on. Hey, oh, good morning.

Hey, man. Baseball is all over the news right now in the best way that baseball can make the news,

which is by not playing baseball. Here's my question for you. Can you think of a time when

baseball made the news when it wasn't messing up? I mean, Oh, Tony, we was trying to make that

bank crack. Okay. But generally speaking, it's steroids, it's biogenesis, it's this is, I mean,

it's always something with this sport. It's labor and now we got no games. The thing about labor is

for the last 27 years because the last work stoppage was such an embarrassment for all parties involved.

There was like a collective resolve. We're not going to do that again. But for people our age and

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