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Speaker 1: From the berkshears 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 seven game, Rob Parker.

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

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Speaker 2: great show for you. Today, we'll talk with Seattle Mariners

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Speaker 2: television play by play man Dave Simms.

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Speaker 3: He stops by, gives us the four to one one.

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Speaker 2: On that fantastic start by rookie pitcher Bryce Miller.

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Speaker 3: Also a little foul of fair.

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Speaker 2: We'll have an analytics stat geek Anthony macisterson he drops

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Speaker 2: by that and much more.

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Speaker 3: Let's go better to.

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Speaker 1: Lead off, it's getting robbed and keep him on.

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Speaker 4: Rob's hot take.

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Speaker 1: On the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball Number one.

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Speaker 2: On Thursday, Justin Verlander makes his Mets debut. The forty

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Speaker 2: year old Verlander is scheduled to make his start against

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Speaker 2: his former team, the Tigers, who drafted the right hander

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Speaker 2: second overall back in two thousand and four and then

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Speaker 2: traded him away to Houston in twenty seventeen. Verlander season

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Speaker 2: opening start was delayed due to a back injury, but the.

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Speaker 3: Forty year old is ready to go.

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Speaker 2: The Mets signed him as a free agent in the

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Speaker 2: offseason and they have high hopes on Justin Verlander, who

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Speaker 2: won the Comeback.

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Speaker 3: Player of the Year who pitched superbly for.

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Speaker 2: The Astros as they won yet another championship. Yes, Verlander

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Speaker 2: signed that eighty six point sixty seven million dollar two

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Speaker 2: year contract after he went eighteen and four with a

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Speaker 2: one seventy five e and twenty eight starts and helped

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Speaker 2: the Astros win and won his third Side Young Award.

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Speaker 2: So Justin Verlander back, the Mets can only be happy.

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Speaker 2: Matt Scherzer came back as well, both pitchers older but

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Speaker 2: injury dealing with injuries. Now the Mets will have their

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Speaker 2: two aces back at the top of the rotation. Verlander

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Speaker 2: making his first start of the season and ironically back

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Speaker 3: Started for him.

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Speaker 5: Number two Philadelphia Philly fans, of course, they gotta be

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Speaker 5: thrilled happy with the return Tuesday night of Bryce Harper,

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Speaker 5: an unbelievable return from Tommy John surgery.

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Speaker 2: I mean an incredible amount of time people thought that

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Speaker 2: But here it is early May and Bryce Harper returned.

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Speaker 2: Of course, it wasn't a celebratory return. He went oh

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Speaker 2: and saw his team pummeled by the Dodgers Tuesday night

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Speaker 2: at Dodgers Stadium. But still it is a minor miracle

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Speaker 2: spending uh, you know, such a short amount of time

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Speaker 3: It's got to be a boost.

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Speaker 2: Bryce Harper is a big part of the Phillies. He

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Speaker 2: was key to their run last year to the World Series.

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you know they wouldn't have rushed him

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Speaker 2: He began the process back in early March and the

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Speaker 2: He got final clearance on Monday and was ready to play,

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Speaker 2: the best stars, brightest stars in baseball. Bryce Harper back

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Speaker 3: Play number three.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but Mookie Bets without question

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Speaker 2: will enter the MVP conversation this year in the National League.

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Speaker 2: I mean Mookie Bets we know as a gold glove

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Speaker 3: It at a high level.

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Speaker 2: It speaks about his versatility, his ability, and you know

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Speaker 3: Robin Yao went from shortstop to center field.

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Speaker 2: He's just a tremendous athlete. This guy bowls shoots, hoops, dunks,

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Speaker 2: If his batting numbers are there, he has to be

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Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 3: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: All right now, let's welcome into the podcast. He is

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Speaker 2: the television voice of the Seattle Mariners. Friend of mine,

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Speaker 2: Dave Simms, Welcome to the podcast, Dave.

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Speaker 4: How are you doing well? Rob Always pleasure to be

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Speaker 4: with you, man. How you doing?

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Speaker 2: No doubt? We had to talk to you after the

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Speaker 2: debut of Bryce Miller, who was perfect through six innings,

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Speaker 2: wound up with ten strikeouts, no walks, and his major

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Speaker 2: Please tell me about this Bryce Miller.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you what looks like a cowboy. Played at

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Speaker 4: Changed him into a starter. Was impressive in Marinis spring training.

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Speaker 4: he attacked the A's. Now, granted the A's aren't the

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Speaker 4: That's humongous. I mean, you little sisters in a porn.

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Speaker 4: Amara's at two eighty and Tony is always I love Tony,

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Speaker 3: So tell me about it.

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Speaker 2: He throws ninety five what kind of pitch plus ninety

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and uh, what's his out pitch?

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Speaker 3: Is he just throwing it by people?

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Speaker 4: power hitter and a one two slider that was just absolutely,

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Speaker 4: Easton McGee. He had a no no deep into that

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Speaker 4: So another one nothing victory. So the Ameritors is back

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Speaker 4: A big part of the ninety win seasons in the

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Speaker 2: and yet talk about what is the issue.

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Speaker 3: Is it just the hitting?

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Speaker 2: Because the Mariners come into Wednesday under five hundred on

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Speaker 4: He's not getting base hits right now. Ty France is

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Speaker 4: So it's not like we had Nelly Cruz in his prime,

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Speaker 4: night against the As. So that's where we are. You

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Speaker 4: all inclusive. That's baseball. This is gonna happen in the

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Speaker 4: on all cylinders. Here's the other thing to to consider.

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Speaker 4: As I mentioned, the last two seasons a Mariners won

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Speaker 2: Dave Simms, my man with the Seattle Mariners, and yet

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Speaker 2: they will be in the mix. I think they got

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Speaker 2: I mean, I was not gonna do that every week,

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Speaker 2: Dave Man, we appreciate you and your knowledge, my man.

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Speaker 4: Thank you here. Welcome Rob anytime Man, continue to success

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Speaker 4: to you and your folks.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket Protector Centrum. The analytic numbers

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is

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Speaker 3: What do you got for me? Anthony?

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Speaker 7: It was an April unlike any we've seen in baseball

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Speaker 7: It's a great time to be a baseball fan. It's

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Speaker 7: The Rays went twenty three to six, the best record

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Speaker 7: Only five teams had better records on May first than

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Speaker 7: Matt Chapman led the league in exit velocity while also

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Speaker 3: That ball is.

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Speaker 1: It was a big week in the big leagues.

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Speaker 3: Who's a believer?

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Speaker 1: Is it foul or is it fair? And now from

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Speaker 1: mlbdbro dot com, here's Jrgamball Jr.

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Speaker 2: Is it foul or fair to think that the Pittsburgh Pirates,

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Speaker 8: Fair It's a fair ball, not for the reasons you

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Speaker 8: This is one of baseball's feel good stories early on

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Speaker 8: If these young guys on the Pirates, like he Brian

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Speaker 1: Be a letdown on the backside. Prepare for that. We

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Speaker 8: But I don't see the Pirates as any more than

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Speaker 8: that's not a bad thing.

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Speaker 9: Turn money into more money.

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Speaker 1: Now it's time for betting on the basis with Dave Gascott.

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Speaker 4: Love that Money, Love that Money.

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Speaker 9: Rob Brand New Week of Baseball. Glad to be hanging

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Speaker 9: out with you. We'll start things off Friday with the

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Speaker 9: the road. Cubbies will be rolling with Justin Steele in

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Speaker 1: Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better

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

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Speaker 2: Reason number five hundred and ninety nine why Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NBA the NFL. It's because

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Speaker 3: The hard hit balls, all that.

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Speaker 2: You know you have two sets of players, but very

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Speaker 3: Back, or guys flat out diving and making sensational catches.

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Speaker 2: That's what makes baseball special and better than those other leagues.

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Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 3: This could be an inside the Parker.

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Speaker 9: See you next week, same bat time, from same Matt station.