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Speaker 1: From the Berke Shears to the sound from wherever you

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: the Inside the Parker Podcast. I'm Rob Parker and coming

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Speaker 1: up former Red's outfielder Eric the Red. That's right, Eric

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Speaker 1: Davis is stopping by. Plus we'll talk with Yes Networks

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Speaker 1: Jack Curry about the streaking Yankees, that and so much more.

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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, Baseball Commissioner Rob

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Speaker 1: Manford has finally come clean. I guess he's saying now

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Speaker 1: that the baseball it's used to saying it without saying it.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know. We've been talking about this home

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Speaker 1: And he was quoted in Newsday by saying they rawlings

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Speaker 1: haven't changed their process in a meaningful way. They haven't

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Speaker 1: Even in the report last year, the scientists identified the

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Speaker 1: Baseball is currently on a page for six thousand, four

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three home runs this season, and let

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Speaker 1: But we finally got to see it on display when

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Speaker 1: if you've never been that city, all they care about

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Speaker 1: to know on why St. Louis loves baseball. The city

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Speaker 1: has run two NFL teams out of the city, the

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Speaker 1: that out for the very first time on June twenty

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