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Speaker 1: From the Berkshires 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 eight six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker. We have a very special

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Speaker 1: New York City edition of Inside the Parking. Great show

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Speaker 1: for you this week. Bit Roberts, the former All Star

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Speaker 1: and current NBC Sports Bay Area analyst, joins us. They'll

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Speaker 1: talk about Major League Baseball and the Oakland A's. Also,

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Speaker 1: we have foul or Fair and so much more. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to lead off. It's getting robbed to keep him on.

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Speaker 1: Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one, No one should be surprised that

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Speaker 1: People are quick to point fingers a Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: and what they're doing. They're testing everybody. And we know

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Speaker 1: there's not a bubble. This is not the NBA. There's

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Speaker 1: over eight hundred players. And when you start talking about

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Speaker 1: the other people you will be trying to to to

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Speaker 1: monitor over a thousand people. The bottom line is this

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Speaker 1: is uncharted waters. All you really can do is test

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Speaker 1: League Baseball did. Because Major League Baseball is still being played,

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Speaker 1: so it's not like it's widespread throughout the league. Obviously

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Speaker 1: and not realistic. Baseball is tryumph The players are trying,

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Speaker 1: not what's going to happen to the rest of the league. Two. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: it was a melee in Houston with the Dodgers in

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Speaker 1: it cost him. On Wednesday, Major League Baseball suspended him

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Speaker 1: sixty seven days, and you just don't Obviously, people are

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Speaker 1: Big Interviews. Listen, all right, now, let's welcome to the

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Speaker 1: NBC Sports Bay Area. What's Up Bill oh Man, I

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Speaker 1: including David Price, who said quote, now we really get

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Speaker 1: to see if MLB is going to put players health first.

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Speaker 1: Price of course decided to sit out this season because

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Speaker 1: he felt the league and Rob Manford wasn't taking COVID

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Speaker 1: nineteen seriously enough. But as a reminder, MLB and Rob

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Speaker 1: Manford did propose a bubble type atmosphere similar to the

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Speaker 1: said no. So there's a lot of blame to go

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Speaker 1: around on both sides. Hopefully they figure it out and

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Speaker 1: everyone stay safe. And lastly, how about Nelson Cruz. Dude

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Speaker 1: forty years old and just killing it. Cruise one Al

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Speaker 1: Player of the Week after becoming the fourth oldest player

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Speaker 1: in MLB history to have seven r bids in one game.

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Speaker 1: So if Nelson keeps this up, when it's all said

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Speaker 1: and done, we could be pretty sure that Nelson Cruz

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Speaker 1: is the Tom Brady of Major League Baseball. Take Out

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Speaker 1: it's time for trash talk. Twitter twin your chance to

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Speaker 1: trash anyone or anything in Major League Baseball. This week's

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Speaker 1: winner is Victor co Ball and he tweeted me this.

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Speaker 1: I'm trashing at MLB and the commits for the handling

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Speaker 1: of COVID like a pair of useless, boldless wings. Where's

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Speaker 1: the structure? That's right, he's the winner. He wins a

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Speaker 1: snapback hat from New Era. If you want a chance

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Speaker 1: to win a snapback hat from New Era next week,

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Speaker 1: make sure you hit me all My Twitter is at

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker now bringing the closer. Here's why MLB it's

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Speaker 1: better than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.

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Speaker 1: The Phillies and Blue Jays will play a double header.

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Speaker 1: Let's play too. When was the last time you went

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Speaker 1: to a double header for NFL game or an NBA game.

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Speaker 1: It's never happened. It shouldn't happen in a long time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's just say that they used to play

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Speaker 1: double headers in the NBA years ago. But in this case,

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Speaker 1: there will be two games on Saturday to make up

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Speaker 1: for some of the games that have been lost because

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Speaker 1: of the pandemic. But you don't see that very often.

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Speaker 1: But you have a traditional doubleheader Saturday, uh were there

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Speaker 1: will be two games for the price of one, which

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Speaker 1: is pretty pretty amazing. Even in the modern days, you've

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Speaker 1: always had the day night double header where you have

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Speaker 1: two different crowds and what lot of people coming in

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Speaker 1: and out. Obviously there's no crowd involved in here, so

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Speaker 1: they'll just play two games on Saturday, an old fashioned doubleheader,

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Speaker 1: and there'll be plenty of television watching for Phillies and

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Speaker 1: Blue Jay fans. I commend baseball. We're not losing any

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Speaker 1: games doubleheaders for makeup game from year on out. He

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Speaker 1: can't get it. This could be an inside the parker

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Speaker 1: to see you next week games. Save about time, Save

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