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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 eighty three, Rob Parker. What a show we

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Speaker 1: have for you today. Fox Sports Baseball analysts Ben Verlander

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Speaker 1: lead off. It's getting robbed to keep him on. Rob's

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Speaker 1: Baseball Number one all odds were on Dodger Stadium Wednesday night. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Max shers are making his Los Angeles Dodger debut against

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Speaker 1: the Houston Astros. You know, I mean, this is what

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Speaker 1: Gave up a boatload of prospects. Some really good young players.

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Speaker 1: But the Dodgers are about now. They're trying to win now.

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Speaker 1: It's not about down the road, it's about now. So

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Speaker 1: And even though you know they went out and added

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Speaker 1: back after that nearly thirty two year drought of not

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Speaker 1: winning a World Series, the Dodgers are all in number three?

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for the two season? On Tuesday, Baseball

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Speaker 1: open up on Thursday, March thirty one, with all thirty

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Speaker 1: jam packed with intrigue schedule feet eleven division no matchups.

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Speaker 1: In addition, to one inter league showdown between the Phillies

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Speaker 1: all right, now, let's welcome to the podcast, Ben Verlin

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Speaker 1: the podcast, Ben, I appreciate that. Thank you for having me,

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Speaker 1: in the Big League. Who's Who's Is it foul or

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Speaker 1: is it fair? And now from MLB bro dot com,

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Speaker 1: here's j R Gamble j R. Greg Allen has been

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Speaker 1: a spark plug for the Yankee since being called up

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Speaker 1: that Alan has to be the fourth outfielder behind old

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Speaker 1: man Brett Gardner. That's that is a foul ball. This

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Speaker 1: obsession with Brett Gardner, who was over the hill and

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Speaker 1: his best day's way behind him is unfathomable to me.

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Speaker 1: The guy is in his fourteen season and he's hitting one.

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Speaker 1: For Christ's sakes, it's time to pull the plug and

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Speaker 1: let the younger more I fled it and hungry a

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Speaker 1: players Greg Allen get his shot. In forty four at mats,

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Speaker 1: Alan has stolen five bases and he's hitting a respectable

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Speaker 1: for the team. He's not a rookie. He's twenty eight

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Speaker 1: years old and in his fifth season, he's just never

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Speaker 1: really gotten a shot to lay every day. The trade

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Speaker 1: needs to find space for him. Was the Gallow trade

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Speaker 1: even needed? Even Yankee fans and announcers understood that the

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Speaker 1: metrics based mump that has become the former Yankees dynasty

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Speaker 1: needed a faceless That's all they were talking about is

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Speaker 1: the need to get more athletic, get more speed, acquire

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Speaker 1: more juice in the lineup. Then they went out and

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Speaker 1: got Anthony Rizzo. Okay, he slowed his hat, but he's

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Speaker 1: a bowler and he stabilized his first base. But Joey

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Speaker 1: Gallop another the boom of bust hitter taking time away

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Speaker 1: from a multidimensional guy like Alan. Go figure, Yankees, play

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Speaker 1: this man, Greg Gallan, you're being stubborn and too worried

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Speaker 1: about beating up on Giancarlo Standard to focus on haply

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Speaker 1: through the team. With players like Alan, they make a

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Speaker 1: difference now bringing the closer. Here's why MLB is better

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Speaker 1: Reason number one thousand, fifteen Wide Baseball is better than

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Speaker 1: the NBA in the NFL, especially during this time. The

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Speaker 1: NFL stop with how popular football is and all that.

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Speaker 1: Most people never put on a helmet and never put

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Speaker 1: on shoulder pads and have never been tackled. Okay, but

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Speaker 1: most people in this country have played baseball or softball

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Speaker 1: or hit a ball or quarter ball. And that's why

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Speaker 1: it's America's pastime. That's why when we're watching the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: we see Olympic baseball. We don't see Olympic football. What

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Speaker 1: most countries around the world, they don't even know what

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Speaker 1: that is. A ball of soccer, baseball, reign supreme. It

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Speaker 1: was born here, it's translated all over the world. Look

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Speaker 1: at all the great players now coming in from all

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Speaker 1: over Japan and all over South America. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: incredible how the game started by Abner double Day has

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Speaker 1: resonated across the globe. Yes, baseball is the national pastime.

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Speaker 1: Do not forget that, all right? Football is about gambling.

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Speaker 1: Oh I'm sorry. Football is a great game, my second favorite,

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Speaker 1: but baseball will always be number one. In the words

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Speaker 1: of New York TV legend of late Bill Jorgensen, thanking

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Speaker 1: you for your time this time until next time. Rob

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