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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: on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number seventy six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker with a very special postseason

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Speaker 1: edition of Inside the Parker. Coming up, We're gonna talk

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

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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. Game two of

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Speaker 1: the ALCS will take place Thursday evening in Houston. UM.

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Speaker 1: This is gonna be an interesting series. Of course, the

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me back on, Rob. Always a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: His name is David Vasse, one of the best in

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