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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 fifty seven, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost

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Speaker 2: forty years now, in New York.

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Speaker 3: In Cincinnati, in Detroit, in LA. I love this game.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What

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Speaker 2: a show we have for you today. Coming up, we'll

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Speaker 2: talk with New York Yankee center fielder Trent Grisham and

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Speaker 2: his amazing start to the twenty twenty five season. Also,

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Speaker 2: we'll check in on the White Sox with Kyle Williams.

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Speaker 2: He writes and covers the White Sox for the Chicago

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Speaker 2: Sun Times.

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Speaker 4: Plus we'll have a little pushback that and much more.

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Speaker 3: Let's go better up to lead off, it's getting rocked

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Speaker 3: and keep them on.

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Speaker 4: Rob's hot take on.

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Speaker 1: The three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 3: Number one, stop the presses.

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Speaker 2: The Colorado Rockies, just that awful baseball team in Denver

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Speaker 2: finally won a series they had gone twenty two straight

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Speaker 2: series without winning one, and finally they've won a series,

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Speaker 2: winning the first two games against the Miami Marlins. My goodness, gracious.

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Speaker 2: Even so, coming into Wednesday they were a league worse

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Speaker 2: eleven and fifty.

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Speaker 3: They will no.

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Speaker 2: Doubt set the record for the most losses in a

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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball season. It's unbelievable how bad the Rockies are,

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Speaker 2: and something has to be done. They should not be

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Speaker 2: this bad, and they have to get better, and they

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Speaker 2: have to spend money on this team.

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Speaker 4: Denver's a big time city. I've seen that ballpart.

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Speaker 2: In fact, a little history info, I actually covered the

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Speaker 2: first Colorado Rockies game in baseball history. They played the

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Speaker 2: Mets when I was writing for Newsday. I do remember that,

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Speaker 2: and man, they've had a lot of great moments there

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Speaker 4: But this is pretty bad. Something has to be done

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Speaker 4: with the Rockies.

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Speaker 3: Number two.

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Speaker 2: The numbers are horrific for Pirates Ace Paul skeins, and

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Speaker 2: not from his standpoint, but from the team standpoint.

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Speaker 4: Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: In his last five starts, where he's only allowed four

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Speaker 3: He's one and two, did you hear me?

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Speaker 4: And the Pirates are two and three.

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Speaker 2: He's given up four earned runs in thirty four point

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Speaker 2: two innings, and he now has had two games where

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Speaker 2: he's pitched eight plus innings, allowed zero in one game

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Speaker 2: So you cannot pitch any better. But there's no offense there.

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Speaker 2: I know, pretty bad, but I'm still gonna say this.

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Speaker 2: As much as the Pirates need as far as players,

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Speaker 2: and they can get a haul for Paul Skins. I

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Speaker 2: Paul Skins on their team. It would be a bidding

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Speaker 2: war for this guy. But they can't trade him. The

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Speaker 2: gotta go get some offense. They got to get in

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Speaker 2: the free agency. They have to. I saw this happen

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Speaker 4: They went and got Miguel Cabrera and paid them big money.

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Speaker 2: The Tigers just started going on a spending spree and

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Speaker 2: They went to the World Series. They were in the

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Speaker 2: playoffs every year. Yes, it can be done. Ownership has

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Speaker 3: Number Three. All we hear is.

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Speaker 2: That the numbers in sports television are going down.

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Speaker 2: the news from Major League Baseball is really good, so

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Speaker 2: Fox up ten percent, ESPN up twenty two percent, Turner

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Speaker 4: Those are the young people you're looking for. That's great news.

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Speaker 4: Every team has a couple of them. I just mentioned

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Speaker 3: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn. It's so good.

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Speaker 2: Now let's welcome into the podcast. Tran Grisham, of course,

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Speaker 2: centerfielder for the New York Yankees. Trying to thank for

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks for having me, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: What a great start to the season for you and

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Speaker 2: the Yankees. Let's talk about your team first, and just

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Speaker 2: you got some bad news right away, Garrett Cole. You

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been a really good start. Yeah, tough news

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Speaker 2: We talked about Max Freed and been incredible seven and one.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees are ten and two in the games that

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got a good temperament for it. Very calm

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about you on your start, a real hot

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Speaker 2: What were your expectations.

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Speaker 5: I didn't really have any expectations other than what I

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Speaker 2: What? What did you say well to yourself? Was it

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Speaker 5: No, I'm really trying to hit a line drive to

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Speaker 2: the Parker. You mentioned San Diego before, talk about playing

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Speaker 2: San Diego. San Diego has a beautiful ballpark. Yankee Stadium,

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Speaker 5: Just the differences, I'll just say the overall it's kind

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Speaker 2: One is laid back and one is in bustle, right.

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Speaker 2: This team has a big lead, the biggest lead of

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's early, it's really truly, in my opinion

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Speaker 2: And then as you look at the National League, and

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Speaker 2: obviously you guys made it to the World Series last year,

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Speaker 2: lost to the Dodgers in five games. I know that's

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Speaker 5: Mara goes to wind the World cheris And that's a

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Speaker 2: I heard the story. I guess when you guys got

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 2: Trent Grisham joining us here on Inside the Parker Man,

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Continued success this season.

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Speaker 3: Deadline his name.

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Speaker 2: Is Kyle, williams one of the best new young baseball

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Speaker 4: Ballpark Thanks, Kyle thank.

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Speaker 9: Time Rob parker joins a little earlier this. Week, rob

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Speaker 9: great to have you. Back Brian kenny, Here how are

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Speaker 7: Excellent we just.

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Speaker 9: Did a whole thing on The tigers best record in.

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Speaker 2: which is, fine they were on the, schedule BUT i

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00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 2: think that it throws people off into thinking how great they.

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Speaker 7: Are B.

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00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,760
Speaker 2: K it was only about a week or ten days

445
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:24,439
Speaker 2: ago they had a four game series In detroit Against

446
00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:27,159
Speaker 2: cleveland and they lost three out of four at home To.

447
00:22:27,240 --> 00:22:28,679
Speaker 7: Cleveland cleveland's a good.

448
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,879
Speaker 9: Club cleveland's a second place. Club by the, way they

449
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,040
Speaker 9: were twenty seven and twenty against all the rest of the.

450
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,520
Speaker 9: Teams And baltimore is not some pathetic little squad like

451
00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 9: you know it's it's It's.

452
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,479
Speaker 7: Baltimore they're they're decent this.

453
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:43,080
Speaker 9: Year they are, yeah and they're, well and they're going

454
00:22:43,119 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 9: to get a steady diet of The White.

455
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:45,760
Speaker 7: Sox that's their.

456
00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,679
Speaker 9: Division so that's how Our they're not completely wrong on.

457
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,680
Speaker 9: That you're mostly they're a good. Club Rob they're a good.

458
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:54,159
Speaker 9: Club it's a playoff. Team i'm not saying that The

459
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 9: yea and The yankees are hobbinboo can you say, About,

460
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,520
Speaker 9: oh The yankees have. Injuries stanton is. Injured oh what a?

461
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,159
Speaker 9: Shock And cole is out for the. Season we know that,

462
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 9: Already so it is what it. Is The yankees would

463
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,199
Speaker 9: have been more powerful With cole or, heel they don't have,

464
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:09,119
Speaker 9: them so it is what it.

465
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 2: Is, Right But i'm saying they are only one game

466
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 2: behind The tigers in the lost. Column so as great

467
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:16,919
Speaker 2: as The tigers are playing.

468
00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:18,920
Speaker 9: Their number two payroll team or number three payroll, team

469
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:19,240
Speaker 9: they're a.

470
00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 7: Monster they're The. Yankees they're a.

471
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,960
Speaker 9: Juggernaut they're a little, hobbled And i'm saying The tigers

472
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,640
Speaker 9: are and The tigers are a better tournament. Team, YEAH

473
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,479
Speaker 9: i think you have to, admit like the way they

474
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 9: come at you in, WAVES i could see them being

475
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:33,840
Speaker 9: better in the postseason than The. Yankees they're more equipped

476
00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:34,560
Speaker 9: to play that.

477
00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 2: GAME i don't see The tigers getting to The World.

478
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 2: SERIES i think The yankees have a better. SHOT i

479
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 2: don't see The tigers in that.

480
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 3: Spot it's.

481
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,800
Speaker 9: CLOSE i think it's very, close and we wouldn't have expected.

482
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:47,080
Speaker 9: That all, right sho Heeo tani having a monster.

483
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:48,600
Speaker 7: Year do you have a?

484
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 9: CRITIQUE i understand you have some sort of critique on

485
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 9: this monster.

486
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 3: YEAR i, mean you know, WHAT.

487
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:57,680
Speaker 2: Bk SOMETIMES i look at his stats AND i think

488
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:00,400
Speaker 2: he has more home runs than he HAS.

489
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 3: Rbi that can't.

490
00:24:02,800 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 7: Happen but, okay, yeah but you realize that's.

491
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 9: A product of his. Teammates, right he's slugging six sixty.

492
00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 7: One all, Right, WELL.

493
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,600
Speaker 3: K can we move him down in the.

494
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,080
Speaker 2: LINEUP i understand That dodgers want him to get an

495
00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 2: extra at bat batting him. Leadoff he was not a

496
00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 2: leadoff hitter, before and he went to the free doos

497
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,560
Speaker 2: spot out of a necessity When Mookie betts was heard,

498
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 2: right and he just wind up keeping him. There it's

499
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: ridiculous for you Show hey to continue to hit all

500
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: these home runs with nobody on.

501
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 3: Base i'm, SORRY i gotta move him down in the.

502
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:38,159
Speaker 2: Lineup it doesn't make sense if you're telling me that

503
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: the bottom of the order can't get on, base and

504
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 2: the only time he's going to hit a home run

505
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 2: is when nobody's on.

506
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,800
Speaker 3: Base it's a. Waste he can hit home.

507
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,280
Speaker 2: Runs with the bags filled with people on. Base you

508
00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 2: got to make an, Adjustment.

509
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,400
Speaker 9: Rob at the risk of blowing the. Segment you're, right you're,

510
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,399
Speaker 9: absolutely it's. Essential like it's it's a very new agy.

511
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 9: Thing we're gonna put our best hitter leading off when

512
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 9: we're only a few years into you, know baseball recognizing

513
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 9: that the best hitter should hit second and not third or. Fourth,

514
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,080
Speaker 9: however you're, right lead. Off you leave a lot of

515
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,440
Speaker 9: runs on the table by having a guy leading off

516
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 9: the leadoff. Spot even in THE dh era faces fewer

517
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:21,119
Speaker 9: men on.

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00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 7: Base it's a decent. Gap and he's a six sixty.

519
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 9: Slugger they're leaving runs on the. Board they're leaving runs

520
00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:27,359
Speaker 9: on the.

521
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:27,880
Speaker 7: Table you're.

522
00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:33,080
Speaker 2: Right twenty three home runs and thirty nine, RBIs i, mean.

523
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,120
Speaker 3: Just that is not good.

524
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,160
Speaker 2: Enough and he had one hundred and thirty RBIs last.

525
00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 9: Year there runs at at an enormous. Pace that's that's

526
00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 9: the trade. Off But i'll say, this if it was

527
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 9: a weaker, club you could, say, well who's gonna lead?

528
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,400
Speaker 9: Off they got lots of guys that can. Hit Will

529
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,119
Speaker 9: smith has got four to forty five on. Base he's a,

530
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:52,919
Speaker 9: CATCHER i, know but so what if we're doing this

531
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 9: where sluggers can lead, off your catcher can lead off

532
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 9: with a monstross on.

533
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 7: Base he's only slugging five. Hundred That's Will.

534
00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 9: Smith you could lead him, Off Oh tani batting second

535
00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 9: would be driving In smith left and right.

536
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 3: ONE i love that a lot better than where we

537
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 3: are now with The. DODGERS i just think it's a.

538
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:10,919
Speaker 7: Way are you you?

539
00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,160
Speaker 9: KNOW i Think i'm with you on this. Too i'm

540
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 9: still a tad disappointed in The. Dodgers While i'm, recognizing

541
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 9: even hobbled all these, injuries they're still pretty. Good they

542
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 9: almost wipe The yankees out of the whole, weekend, right

543
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,119
Speaker 9: and and Yet i'm still.

544
00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 7: Somewhat are you still somewhat disappointed in?

545
00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 2: Them they were supposed to be The. Beatles it didn't

546
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 2: turn out to be that. Way they started the season

547
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:36,399
Speaker 2: eight and oh and since then they're twenty eight and twenty,

548
00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:38,960
Speaker 2: four middle of a road that's not that is.

549
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 3: That special with some of the. Players Twenty freeman's.

550
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 2: Batting nine hundred forty five home runs and they're twenty

551
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 2: eight and.

552
00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,879
Speaker 3: Twenty that's not.

553
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 9: Good if they're not The. BEATLES i Was Joe madden

554
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,399
Speaker 9: said In. Japan The dodgers were The? Beatles are they The?

555
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 9: Kinks The kinks were? Good all, Right we'll take The

556
00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 9: King The kinks, said The King kings are really, good,

557
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 9: right they're not The? BEATLES a Right National LEAGUE? Mvp all,

558
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 9: right who do you? Now you understand you're not Going?

559
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 9: Otani what a? Shock where you're?

560
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 10: Going, No i'm not you know, What i'll go with

561
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 10: his Teammate Freddy, freeman who had an unbelievable may bet

562
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 10: at for ten, yep and you, know and he.

563
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 3: Keeps getting it. Done he's like fine.

564
00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 2: Wine he continues the age and he's a big part

565
00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 2: of that. Lineup he's doing a lot of things driving it.

566
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,959
Speaker 2: RUNS i like Where Freddy freeman is right. Now and

567
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 2: there's no disrespect To.

568
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 4: Oldtani wef you.

569
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 3: Have noa's having a really good. Season BUT i would

570
00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:39,679
Speaker 3: Take Freddy freeman at this, Point.

571
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:42,520
Speaker 9: Rob you're not wrong, Again i'm going to essentially agree with.

572
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:43,159
Speaker 7: You he.

573
00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,159
Speaker 9: Said look he's got look at his NOMB i ran

574
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 9: the slash line For, Freeman o'tani And Pete Crow armstrong

575
00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 9: Because Freddy freeman is hitting three sixty eight within a

576
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:52,960
Speaker 9: four thirty five on.

577
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,359
Speaker 7: Base that's a serious.

578
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,160
Speaker 9: Number he's slugging six twenty, one the one ninety one

579
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 9: you see weighted run screen and plus there one, Hundred Isle,

580
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 9: Gaverage freeman leads all of. Baseball he's the best hitter in.

581
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 9: BASEBALL i only throw war in. THERE i don't want

582
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 9: to look at war like two months. In, However pete Crow,

583
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 9: Armstrong i'll say That, Freeman i'm. Fine if you're and

584
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 9: down the, Road freeman is more likely to be THE.

585
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 9: MVP i don't Think pete Crow armstrong can carry a

586
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:21,040
Speaker 9: five to sixty slugging. Percentage, However pete Crow armstrong is

587
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 9: the number one based runner in. Baseball he is the

588
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,800
Speaker 9: number one fielder in, baseball and he's slugging five to.

589
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,159
Speaker 9: Sixty if it's stopped, now you'd have to give it to.

590
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 2: Him, Yeah and the problem is we have to see long.

591
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,720
Speaker 2: TERM i agree that if he continues those, numbers WHICH

592
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 2: i don't believe that will.

593
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 3: Happen i'm not saying he's going to fall off a.

594
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 2: Cliff But Freddie freeman And shohy have longer track.

595
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:49,480
Speaker 3: Records sure you know that they can sustain it for

596
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 3: a long.

597
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 2: Season we're two months, in we got four months to,

598
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 2: go you.

599
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 3: Know So i'm not going to discount what he's.

600
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 2: Done BUT i just think That Freddie, freeman, Right now

601
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 2: IF i have, VOTE i had to vote, tomorrow it

602
00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 2: would Be.

603
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 9: Freddy, YEAH i go. Again season. Stopped NOW i GO

604
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 9: pca down the. Road it's Probably freddy With otani right?

605
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 9: THERE i, think what do we agree on?

606
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 3: Everything, yeah this is a bad. SEGMENT i, mean what's

607
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 3: going on with? YOU?

608
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 4: Bk this is.

609
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 9: Well, no you were wrong on The, tigers But, otani

610
00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,360
Speaker 9: you're right leading.

611
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 7: OFF i wonder at.

612
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 9: One, POINT i, think at some POINT i can't See

613
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,959
Speaker 9: dodgers baseball ops. Going we got a guy slugging six

614
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 9: sixty leading off and THE rbi, thing that's, real there's

615
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:35,440
Speaker 9: not as many men on. Base Rob, parker you're. Right

616
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 9: i'm gonna say that three two, One, Rob you're.

617
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:38,800
Speaker 7: Right how's?

618
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:38,959
Speaker 2: That?

619
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 3: DUDE A.

620
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 2: Bk i've only been covering baseball for thirty nine, years

621
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 2: give me like just thirty.

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00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 7: Nine give me. Credit good, Job, rob great, Stuff thank

623
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:48,000
Speaker 7: you so.

624
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 4: Much, no this is.

625
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 3: Bloading it's The parker. Pushback shut the. Here rob tackles

626
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 3: the outlandish takes In Major league. Baseball you, idiot shut up.

627
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 3: Today i'm pushing back on all the people have.

628
00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:07,800
Speaker 4: Been crying forever that Major League baseball is a regional

629
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 4: sport is not a. Naginewsport look at THE tv. Ratings guess.

630
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 4: What all sports are really.

631
00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 2: Regional but we're gonna finally see this year with THE

632
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: nba just how regional THE nba is because THE Nba

633
00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 2: finals kicks off On, thursday and you have two very

634
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:35,680
Speaker 2: small Markets Oklahoma City thunder The Indiana, pacers and many

635
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 2: are expecting this to be one of the lowest, rated

636
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:44,400
Speaker 2: if not the lowest RATED Nba. Finals because the NBA's regional,

637
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:49,280
Speaker 2: too people care about their, teams so when the big

638
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 2: markets are out like The knicks and The lakers and The,

639
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: celtics THOSE nba fans and those cities have very little

640
00:30:56,240 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 2: interests in The thunder or The. Pacers same thing in,

641
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 2: baseball and THE nfl has always been regional, too from

642
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:08,120
Speaker 2: this standpoint that you only see your team in your,

643
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,840
Speaker 2: area so it's always been a regional broadcast on A.

644
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:16,400
Speaker 2: Sunday it's not broadcast across the entire. Country if you're In,

645
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:20,479
Speaker 2: detroit you see The Detroit lions. Game if you're In

646
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 2: New york you see The giants or The jets game ON.

647
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 4: Tv and the national, games, yes they do really well

648
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 4: with the ratings because it's just doesn't happen that.

649
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 2: Often, it's you, know once a. Week it's something to

650
00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 2: gear up. For so all sports are, regional it's not just.

651
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:49,280
Speaker 2: Baseball I'm Rob parker and that's my.

652
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:58,800
Speaker 11: Pushback in the words Of New YORK tv legend the

653
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 11: Late Bill, jorgensen thanking you for your, time this time

654
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 11: until next.

655
00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 2: Time Rob parker out d can't get.

656
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 3: It this could be an inside Of.

657
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 2: Parker see you next, week same bat, time same bat.

658
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 8: Station