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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 seventy, Rob Parker.

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

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Speaker 2: a show we have for you Today. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 2: with Bobby Nightingale. He covers the Minnesota Twins for the

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Speaker 2: Minneapolis Star Tribune. He'll break down the Twins as they

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Speaker 2: win the Central and head to the postseason. We'll do

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Speaker 2: that plus foul or fair. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off, it's getting.

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Speaker 3: Robbed and keep them on.

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Speaker 1: Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one.

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Speaker 2: We already knew this guy was a superstar, but my goodness, gracious, really,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three has big off the charts for mister

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Speaker 2: Ronald Acunya Junior. Yes, we know. On Wednesday night in

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Speaker 2: the Brave sixty five victory over the Cubs in ten innings,

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Speaker 2: Acunya did something no player has ever done in Major

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Speaker 2: League Baseball. You know what that is the unthinkable. The

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Speaker 2: forty seventy club, forty home runs and seventy stolen bases.

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Speaker 2: It has never been done. Forget about forty forty, which

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Speaker 2: it doesn't happen that often, but forty seventy and I

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Speaker 2: get it, he's already fast. They made the bases bigger,

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Speaker 2: let's be honest, and this is what's obviously fueled him

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Speaker 2: and to be able to do with something that no

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Speaker 2: with forty home runs. I mean, obviously he could steal bases.

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Speaker 2: of the pizza size boxes we have in baseball. I'm

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Speaker 2: not knocking him. He's a great player, always has been

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Speaker 2: a great player, one of the best power speed combos

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Speaker 2: in the history of baseball. So I'm I'm you know,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to allow him to have this moment without

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Speaker 2: But baseball, I'm sure when they thought about expanding the

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Speaker 2: sizes of the bases, was hoping to have more people

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Speaker 2: had ever tallied more than forty six stolen bases during

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Speaker 2: a forty home run season, So he didn't just beat

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Speaker 2: just be realistic about it. But I'm gonna tip my

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Speaker 2: cap to Ronald Lacuna, who has put together one of

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Speaker 2: the most incredible seasons, and it is clear to me,

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Speaker 2: at least right now, that he is the National League MVP.

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Speaker 2: There was a race going on between a few people,

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Speaker 2: including Mookie bats and Freddie Freeman and Matt Olsen, all

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Speaker 2: can't get past somebody doing something that's never been done

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Speaker 2: in the history of baseball. And so here we are.

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Speaker 2: Acuna stands at forty one home runs on the season

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Speaker 2: and seventy stolen bases. Incredible.

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Speaker 2: Don't look now, but the Miami Marlins are fighting their

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Speaker 2: the Mets, they have jumped into the third wild card spot. Incredible.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be some race as the wild card.

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Speaker 2: So there you go. The Marlins have a shot at

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Speaker 2: So I'm anxiously watching this because when you don't know

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Speaker 2: But here's the worst part. According to multiple reports, the

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Speaker 2: big names like Blake Snell's could be who's a free

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Speaker 2: it's a mistake. The Padres are making a mistake. They

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Speaker 2: Something just wasn't right this year. I would give it

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Speaker 2: I think they have a lot of talent. I would

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Speaker 2: You had a soul out building all year, you made money.

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Speaker 2: I think it's a mistake. Padre should go forward, double

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Speaker 2: I think it's a good team. I think it's a

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Speaker 2: ownership is making a mistake.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket protector centro. The analytic numbers

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Speaker 1: you need to know, Well, maybe.

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Speaker 2: Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is his game.

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Speaker 2: What do you got for me, Anthony?

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Speaker 4: The twenty twenty three season is almost in the books,

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Speaker 4: and among other things, and Mike go down is the

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Speaker 4: year of the leadoff hitter when all of a sudden

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Speaker 4: the top three. And home runs, extra base hits RBI

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Speaker 4: been some incredibly noteworthy performances. Ronald Acunyu Junior is surely

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Speaker 4: to take home the MVP Trophy in the NL, and

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Speaker 4: he already owns the most home runs ever out of

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Speaker 4: Acunya became the fifth forty to forty player in MLB history,

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Speaker 4: within shouting distance of Charlie Blackman's total bases record for

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Speaker 4: a leadoff hitter of three to eighty three, set in

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Speaker 4: it's no surprise we saw leadoff guys take center stage.

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

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Speaker 1: a believe? Is it foul or is it fair? And

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Speaker 2: Minnesota has locked up the AL Central Division and now

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Speaker 2: must try to prepare a roster for the start of

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Speaker 2: the playoffs despite the uncertainty concerning the injury status of

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Speaker 1: Fair? It's a fair ball.

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Speaker 5: Look, their club's three best players are banged up, and

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Speaker 5: Iffian every Way Byron Buxton, Royce Lewis and Carlos Korea.

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Speaker 5: Currently the team scrambling to know what they're going to

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Speaker 5: card Rowns. A Minnesota Twins executive was on the Mad

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Speaker 5: Dog Chris Russo show on High Heat and he says

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Speaker 5: Buston was doing some rehab in trip Ala, but he

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Speaker 5: can't get any more bats there because the season's over,

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Speaker 5: so he'll continue to get him live at bats from

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Speaker 5: where they are at the end of the week. Nothing

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Speaker 5: guy like Buston who has all the talent in the

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Speaker 5: started his career with four Grand Slams in an eighteen

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Speaker 5: game span. That's the shortest span in which a player

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Speaker 5: has hit four Grand.

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Speaker 5: He's brought the power to Minnesota that they've desperately lacked

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Speaker 5: over the years, and without him, this playoff push just

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Speaker 5: won't be the same. And then you have Carlos Correa.

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Speaker 5: He's had a tough year. He's been battling plantar Festshiis

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Speaker 5: He hasn't really played much and could technically be active

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Speaker 1: Sorry, turned money into more money. Now it's time for

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Speaker 6: Well, Rob, we got a dramatic ending to the regular

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

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Speaker 1: If I'm writing I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer

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Speaker 2: All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast Bobby Nightingale.

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Speaker 2: He covers the Minnesota Twins for the Star Tribune in Minneapolis,

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Speaker 2: and Bobby, let's welcome to the podcast. My friend, how

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Speaker 2: are you doing great? Thanks for having me, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Here we go postseason. I can't believe the season's over

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Speaker 2: and ready to go to Twins have locked up the

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Speaker 2: right a two out of three in Minneapolis at Target Field.

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Speaker 2: How good are the Twins and should they Should you

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I think they have the They have

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Speaker 7: I think Houston would be kind of the toughest wild

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Speaker 2: You take dead in a two out of three series,

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Speaker 7: I mean it's just one of those. Yeah, both those guys,

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Speaker 2: We always when you talk about the twins, you talk

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's one of.

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Speaker 2: All Bob voyce lewis what a I mean, what would

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I mean, you ask any of the Twins coaches.

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Speaker 7: I mean, this is a guy who do ACL torn

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is the guy. He barely played above

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Speaker 2: Carlos Carreer, let's get back to him and just what

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Speaker 7: I mean, they definitely expect him to play. He's been

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Speaker 3: Give him credit.

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Speaker 7: I mean he he led the team in games played

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Speaker 2: Last thing, are Twins fans geek pumped? I mean, they

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Speaker 3: I think they're nervous.

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Speaker 7: I mean it's they haven't won a playoff game since

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Speaker 2: Well, they're not playing the Yankees, so they got a shot.

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Speaker 7: doesn't feel like you got any easier. So I say

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Speaker 7: a lot of fans are anxious there. They're happy they

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Speaker 3: But that's a long streak you have to overcome.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. His name is Bobby Nightingale. Check out his

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Speaker 2: stuff the Minneapolis Star Tribune. One of the best young

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Speaker 2: baseball riders in the country. Bobby, you know, I appreciate

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Speaker 2: you always.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, appreciate you. Thanks for having me.

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

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

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Speaker 2: Reason number one hundred and fifty five whur Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL,

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Speaker 2: it's because the stories like this. Are you ready? Former

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Speaker 2: Major leaguer and sixth overall pick of the nineteen eighty

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Speaker 2: four MLB draft, Eric Pappis is back playing professional baseball.

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Speaker 2: That's a story. Fans with love get this. He's fifty

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Speaker 2: seven years old and just signed to play for Greece

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Speaker 2: in the European Championship fifty seven. You couldn't play basketball

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Speaker 2: at fifty seven, or you couldn't play football at fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: For baseball, doing good shape, probably could still get out there,

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Speaker 2: play first base, playing one of the corner outfields, right,

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Speaker 2: move around, catch some fly balls. You ain't beating out

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Speaker 2: many hits, but you might be able to still swing

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Speaker 2: a bat at fifty seven and get some knocks. It's

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Speaker 2: a pretty fun story. It'll be interesting to see how

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Speaker 2: he winds up. At some point, We're gonna update this

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Speaker 2: story and see where Eric Pappus and what he was

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Speaker 2: able to do. Getting back into baseball at age fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: But those are enough stories that you only hear in

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Speaker 2: Major League baseball. In the words of New York TV

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Speaker 2: legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time

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Speaker 2: this time until next time. Rob Parker out d kid Davin.

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside of Parker. See you next week,

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Speaker 1: same bad time, from the same Matt's station.