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Speaker 1: From the Burke 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: scoop on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame voter number one oh three, Rob Parker. All right,

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Speaker 1: welcome into the show. I'm Rob Parker here, your host.

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Speaker 1: You there, and we got a great show coming ahead

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Speaker 1: for you, including Baseball Hall of Fame or former Red

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Speaker 1: shortstop Barry Larkin. He is coming by. Plus we'll talk

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Speaker 1: with Y sus Ortiz from La Vita Baseball, plus so

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Speaker 1: much more. Let's go up to lead off. It's getting

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Speaker 1: robbed and keep him on. Rob's hot take on the

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

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Speaker 1: Yankees got their ace pitcher, Luisa Vrino Beck on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: He had been missing all season long, and yes, he's

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Speaker 1: In his return, he pitched against the Los Angeles Angels

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Speaker 1: a successful return when you think he's missed the entire season.

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Speaker 1: He had went down with shoulder inflammation. And later suffered

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Speaker 1: The Yankees have to feel good as you go forward

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Speaker 1: number two. All year, people have talked about the Houston Astros,

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Speaker 1: that is a bad story from Major League Baseball in

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Speaker 1: Mr Tavasquez. Uh I, I just it's just a shocking

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Speaker 1: big interview. Listen Headler Good, All right, let's welcome into

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Speaker 1: the podcast Hall of Famer. Yes Cincinnati Red shortstop Barry Larkin.

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Speaker 1: B Larkin? Man, what's happening? How you doing? All good?

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Speaker 1: Rob finishing up the season, working in the minor leagues

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Speaker 1: as people. If you don't know, you better know Barry Larkin,

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Speaker 1: A lot of things jump out in your career, and

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Speaker 1: Barry Larkin, the Hall of Famer Cincinnati Red shortstop. Hey, Barry,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining the podcast. Appreciate you

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Speaker 1: all right, Rob, thanks for having me. Bro. It's time

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Speaker 1: for the pocket Protector Central the analytic numbers you need

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Speaker 1: BS analytics is his game? What you got for s, Anthony?

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