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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live

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Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give

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Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop

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Speaker 1: on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into Inside

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Speaker 1: the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker. Coming up on

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Speaker 1: the podcast, former Major league outfielder Michael Bourne will join

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Speaker 1: us talk about what he's up to and his former team,

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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Plus we'll talk with Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Speaker 1: baseball writer Lavelle Neil. He'll talk about those home run

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Speaker 1: hitting twins, that and much more. I'm here, you're there.

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Speaker 1: Let's go up to lead off. It's getting robbed and

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Speaker 1: keep him on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest

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Speaker 1: stories in Major League Baseball. Number one for sure, Justin

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Speaker 1: Verlander has joined the elite class of pictures. Went on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: no hitters. Four of the previous pictures. And we're talking

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Speaker 1: He won early when he was a young stud with

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Speaker 1: People thought maybe he wasn't gonna reach the plateau of

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Speaker 1: winner early, big time winner late. He is one of

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Speaker 1: those guys will look back now and think that, uh,

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Speaker 1: Justin Verlander was one of the best pictures that we

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Speaker 1: The Minnesota Twins, that's right, slug their way to a

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Speaker 1: welcome into the podcast. Michael ball In, the former major

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Speaker 1: James Rowlson, he advocates an aggressive approach to the plate.

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Speaker 1: He allows these guys to hunt for strikes. It was

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Speaker 1: And they've been given that green light and they have

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Speaker 1: it's been, there's been something to see, and it really

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Speaker 1: puts pressure on a lot of opposing pictures because every

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Speaker 1: bottom third as a guy who's got at least twenty

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Speaker 1: home runs somewhere in it. And you cannot relax against

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Speaker 1: this line up. I was gonna say they have seven guys,

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Speaker 1: uh with twenty or more. Polanco has nineteen as of Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: So that's unbelievable. That's eight guys almost yeah, and they

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Speaker 1: Uh uh. And then uh, they have Marion Gonzaz and fifteen,

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Speaker 1: you know, and he's a hot streak away from becoming

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Speaker 1: a ninth guy. So um, he said, it's been fairly

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Speaker 1: remarkable to see Harla. Home runs have been spread up

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Speaker 1: and down the lineup. And you got a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys and Max Kepler and Nelson Cruz who have a

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Speaker 1: chance at forty home runs this year, you know, And

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Speaker 1: that's that's Harmon Killer grew numbers right there when she

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Speaker 1: gets the forty man, and that's been uh, and you

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Speaker 1: got a couple of guys with them they are gonna

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Speaker 1: have like great season. And he resire I was probably

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Speaker 1: gonna drive in a hundred runs. Max Kepler is going

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Speaker 1: to driving a hundred runs and score a hundred runs

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Speaker 1: And I thought you couldn't hit all home runs in

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Speaker 1: that ballpark. Wasn't that Wasn't that the wrap on that

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Speaker 1: on target field. They just didn't have the muscles at

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Speaker 1: the time. That's what it was. It was more muscles

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Speaker 1: than Homer's because they used to see the guys like

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Speaker 1: Miguel Cabrera, Uh Edwin and Karnacia and all the big

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Speaker 1: boppers that come in and go deep to the right

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Speaker 1: center fields like kind of heckul he hit the balling fire. Well,

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Speaker 1: now you see the Twins do that. And it's a

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Speaker 1: combination of guys getting more mature, uh filling out and

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Speaker 1: I no one want to strike us, and then punishing

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Speaker 1: the baseball. So um, it's been you know, it took

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Speaker 1: a couple of years for this to develop the way

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Speaker 1: it has. But now it's not a park they can't

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Speaker 1: home er. And I mean if it's eight home runs

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Speaker 1: in the game twice, I think they did six home

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Speaker 1: runs in the game five times, and they won the

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Speaker 1: first four and they happened to lose on Saturday when

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Speaker 1: they hit six home runs against the Tigers, and that

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Speaker 1: was actually the ninth in which they broke the record

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Speaker 1: for most home runs hit in the season. The other

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Speaker 1: part about this team I like is that they come back,

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Speaker 1: come from behind. They don't give up. That that's a

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Speaker 1: that's a great trade, isn't it about about a young team?

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Speaker 1: It is They have twenty eight come from behind when

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Speaker 1: some most recent one was yesterday at Tiger Stadium when

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Speaker 1: they were trailing three to two and Jordan's pitch a

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Speaker 1: pretty good game, I guess adding a sinker to his repertoire.

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Speaker 1: It's helped them out. Uh, and the Twins at one

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Speaker 1: home run in the game, but then in the Athan

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Speaker 1: and Mexic effort came through with a two run single.

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Speaker 1: Uh that gave them the fourth three lead. So they

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Speaker 1: they hang in there, man, They battle, and they've come

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Speaker 1: back against good teams. They come back in the Red Sox,

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Speaker 1: that come back in the Yankees. Um. They trust in

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Speaker 1: their ability, man, and they're not going to uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: they're not going to give up when they fought behind.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna poop Pool on a great regular season

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Speaker 1: and obviously to win the division and what not get

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Speaker 1: to the playoffs when some people didn't think it was possible. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The other part is they haven't won a playoff series

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Speaker 1: since two thousand two. Is this going to be another

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Speaker 1: Twin story or could this team really advance and move forward? Well,

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Speaker 1: they're not to prove that there more than just a

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Speaker 1: one series team. But it's gonna be tough because right

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Speaker 1: now at the postseason begin today, uh, they will be

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Speaker 1: going to Houston play the Asters, and the answers are

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Speaker 1: loaded now, their offenses unlocked in they're a better team

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Speaker 1: than when they face the Twins earlier in the season

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Speaker 1: because uh are average was not in the lineup and

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Speaker 1: they hadn't trade for St. Greaky yet and both those

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Speaker 1: people on board, and it's taking them to a non level.

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Speaker 1: Plus Houston's healthy. So the Twins to three out of

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Speaker 1: fergust Houston early in the season and target Field and

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Speaker 1: he lost to on and three at Houston. But that's

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Speaker 1: gonna that's gonna be a tough team to goodbye in

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Speaker 1: the first round in the postseason, and the Twins have

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Speaker 1: to do it with their bats. I mean, the pitcher

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Speaker 1: staff is solid but not spectacular. Uh and the start

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Speaker 1: rotations kind of faltered a little bit during the second half.

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Speaker 1: So they've got the out hit teams. And that's gonna

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Speaker 1: go against the old adage that claims that good pitching

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Speaker 1: will stop good hitting. But we'll see, but they're gonna have.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a talent for them to break that drought.

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Speaker 1: Going back to the two dozen too. All Right, his

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Speaker 1: name is Lavelle Neil, been covering the Twins in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball for twenty two years. From the Minneapolis Star Tribute.

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Speaker 1: My man, thank you, appreciate your time. All right, my pleasure.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me all I appreciate you now bringing

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Speaker 1: the closer. Here's why MLB is better than the NFL

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Speaker 1: or NBA, and it isn't even close. Here's reason number

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Speaker 1: nine thousand why Major League Baseball is better than the

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Speaker 1: NBA and better than the NFL. You just never know

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Speaker 1: what you're gonna get when you go to a baseball game.

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Speaker 1: You could get Justin Verlander pitching a no no. You

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Speaker 1: could get the Minnesota Twins hitting six home runs in

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Speaker 1: the game and losing. You could get the Yankees being

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Speaker 1: shut out for the first time in two hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty games, which seems incredible with the bats and the

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Speaker 1: players that they have that they've actually gone this long

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Speaker 1: without ever being shut out in a game. The last

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Speaker 1: time the Yankees would shut out was July one, two

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Speaker 1: thousand eighteen, but the Rangers did it. You just don't know.

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Speaker 1: Baseball is full of surprises. That's why I think people

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Speaker 1: still love to go out. It's not the same thing

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Speaker 1: every day. It's not automatic that the team with the

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Speaker 1: best record or the best players win every day. Baseball

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Speaker 1: is indeed like a box of chocolate. You just never

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Speaker 1: know what you're gonna get. In the words of New

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Speaker 1: York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for

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Speaker 1: your time this time until next time. Rob Parker out

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Speaker 1: he can't give it. This could be an inside the

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Speaker 1: Parker to see you next week. Time cost of costial