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Speaker 1: From the Burkeshars 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 fifty seven, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost

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Speaker 2: forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,

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Speaker 3: I love this game. Let's go.

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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.

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Speaker 4: That's right, our vacation edition of Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk with Tampa Bay Rays outfielder Chandler Simpson.

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Speaker 4: Man he's swinging a hot bat. We'll talk with him.

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Speaker 2: Plus we'll have part two of our interview with Blue

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Speaker 2: Jays already pitcher future Hall of Famer MaTx Scherzer. He

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Speaker 2: has some ideas about changes he'd like to see in

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Speaker 2: some of the rules and some of the rules that

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Speaker 2: he likes. That, Plus I'll have a pushback about John

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Speaker 2: Carlos Stanton that and much more.

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Speaker 4: Let's go better.

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Speaker 3: To lead off, it's getting rocked and keep him mind.

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Speaker 4: Rob's hot take on.

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Speaker 3: The three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: Number one, A big series starts in the Bronx on

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Speaker 2: Thursday night, the Red Sox visiting the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 4: And this has Wildcard implications.

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Speaker 2: Of course, the Yankees currently with a two game lead

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Speaker 2: over the Red Sox in the wildcard in the American League.

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Speaker 2: The Red Sox are second in the three spots for

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Speaker 4: The Red Sox have had their way with.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees thus far, but here comes a big series

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Speaker 2: and the Yankees are playing better. They've won five in

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Speaker 2: coming into Thursday's game, and this will be a big series.

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Speaker 2: If the Yankees can win three out of four or

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Speaker 2: possibly sweep the Red Sox, this would be huge going

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Speaker 2: but a big series. Nonetheless, Yankees Red Sox all weekend long,

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Number two. Did you hear that?

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Speaker 2: That was show Hal Tany getting rocked by the Colorado

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers won the World Series last year without Otani.

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Speaker 2: They're trying to, you know, work his way in so

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Speaker 2: He really hasn't been. This is his first loss of

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Speaker 2: and I keep wondering, shouldn't he just be hitting. Shouldn't

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Speaker 2: Let this dude break every day and concentrate on hitting

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Speaker 2: I know the Dodgers will continue to do this, but

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Speaker 3: Number three, all right, I'll admit it.

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Speaker 4: The Detroit Tigers are back.

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Speaker 2: They went through a horrendous stretch where they couldn't score runs.

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Speaker 4: So the Tigers have righted the ship.

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Speaker 2: And I'm giving them my apologies because I looked like

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Speaker 5: We're so good now.

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Speaker 6: Let's welcome into the podcast. Chandeler Simpson, centerfielder for the

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Speaker 6: Tampa Bay Rays. How you doing, Chandler good. How you

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Speaker 6: doing doing great? Thanks for joining us. I wanna talk

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Speaker 6: about your exploits at the plate. Coming into Wednesday, batting

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Speaker 4: What's going right? What's clicking for you?

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Speaker 5: All kinds of Yeah, just stay in my approach, trying

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Speaker 7: Stand on the left side of the field and you

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Speaker 6: On thet It's the fuel different or I mean, I

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Speaker 6: look at your stats, almost three hundred and bats big leagues.

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Speaker 6: Not too many people. The average batting average in the

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Speaker 7: How that feels Yeah, it feels good.

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Speaker 5: Just a testaments all the hard work and hard work

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Speaker 6: Speaking of your game, stealing bases last year in the

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Speaker 4: Does it feel the same. I know you've been caught

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean catches are better, they got better on

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Speaker 7: Pitchers, they're paying attention to you more.

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Speaker 5: So I know that every team has a game plan

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Speaker 7: So that's a big difference.

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Speaker 6: Now, how about as a right handed droller left handed hitter.

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Speaker 4: Where did that come from?

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Speaker 6: So how about your favorite player, Okay, your dad's Barry Bonds.

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Speaker 5: I love Barry, but I mean I love like the

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Speaker 7: Caruz, people that just just play my game.

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Speaker 4: And you don't know nothing about Black Crew.

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Speaker 7: I would still as the game. I love it. I

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Speaker 6: Guys Chandeler Simpson joining us here on inside the Parker

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Speaker 6: of course, centerfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays.

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Speaker 4: Atlanta.

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Speaker 6: My god, look at all the fresh new players coming

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Speaker 4: You guys have something going.

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Speaker 6: What is it in the water in Atlanta And why

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we all kind of grew up in

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Speaker 7: A lot of African Americans played basketball and football.

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Speaker 5: But I just want us just wanting to make a

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Speaker 7: So it's more of what's coming for sure.

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Speaker 6: And who's the best guy out of it, out of

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Speaker 4: Who's the best current player. You taking yourself out of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's going crazy.

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Speaker 6: Also, I'm trying to think, uh Buxton is from Georgia.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, j honestly, just wanna be consistent, continue to uh

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Speaker 7: To rock with these bag cause I want to lead

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Speaker 6: I was gonna say so that all at some point

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Speaker 7: That's your goal. I mean I feel like that's a

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Speaker 6: Okay, last thing, your first year in the big leagues.

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Speaker 6: to have fun. You're a young guy. How do you

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Speaker 7: Yeah, just remembering that's a game and as a kids game.

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Speaker 5: Just want to have fun and I mean throughout all

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's still a game at the end of

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Speaker 6: Right handed pitcher Max Scherzer from the Toronto Blue Jays

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Speaker 3: Max.

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Speaker 4: How are you Rob? How's going?

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Speaker 2: Give it over?

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Speaker 3: You're on?

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Speaker 6: Baseball has made some changes since you started pitching in

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Speaker 2: Pitch clock and thrown over from space and the shift

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Speaker 4: The games are.

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Speaker 4: Is up with younger people? Or those changes good? And

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Speaker 6: Because at first I was questioned making the pitch clock,

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Speaker 4: Where are you on some of those days?

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Speaker 10: I wish there was an intermediate step before the pitchclock.

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Speaker 10: I did the issue here. There's pace of play. We

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Speaker 10: and I think there's some just some basic rule changes

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Speaker 7: So that way the game with you.

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Speaker 10: Because I say that because with the clock, there are

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Speaker 10: And that's what the how MLB came solitulius. Hey, look,

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Speaker 10: to make the games faster. Well I get it, but no,

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Speaker 2: Read somewhere where you love the way they all start

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Speaker 4: You a fan of the O one w am mis Uh?

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Speaker 7: That was actually a rule change where.

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Speaker 10: Uh you know, you know, Skemel, this.

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Speaker 10: Uh, that's actually a really entertaining way to in the game.

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Speaker 10: And then we've moved from twenty seconds to eighteen, yet

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Speaker 10: It's in the course of a game. Why that matters because,

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Speaker 10: I mean it affects time you work for the catcher.

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Speaker 10: A lot of young guys don't have a good time

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Speaker 10: You know you have a ball strike pony immediately, you

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Speaker 4: Maybe there's two or three warnings.

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Speaker 7: Before a natural ball strike. No one's trying to actually

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Speaker 5: I get it.

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Speaker 10: We want to be moon flash, we wanted to forty five.

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Speaker 10: I'm all for that, but how it has actually got implemented.

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Speaker 10: you're pitching on your fatigue. So I'm not saying it's

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Speaker 7: We zero that?

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Speaker 4: Max Sures are there we go? Not only is he

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I've had to be amotion to you with all

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Speaker 7: Think about everybody. It was actually a great job.

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Speaker 4: Whad I did it? But it really pushed your mind

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Speaker 7: And I've always wanted to look at that pragmatically and

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Speaker 10: So I guess I enjoyed it, but yeah, you know

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Speaker 4: You know, you get into the politics of baseball.

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Speaker 10: You got to be on your game in order to

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Speaker 4: So I enjoyed it. There he is Max Sure's or

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Speaker 4: Toronto Blue Jays ace right hand. Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 3: In case you missed.

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker on the MLB Network here's his latest appearance

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Speaker 1: on MLBA.

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Speaker 12: Rob Parker in the show Down, he joins us every week.

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Speaker 12: He's here with us once again, Rob, good to see you,

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Speaker 12: welcome back.

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Speaker 4: What's up, b K? How are you always a pleasure?

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Speaker 3: Doing well?

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Speaker 12: A great weekend of baseball? Your Padres were hot then

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Speaker 12: got swept. I'm not overreacting to that. It happens. They

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Speaker 4: I disagree.

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Speaker 2: I think the Dodgers were desperate and they actually had

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Speaker 3: In six weeks. Think about that six weeks.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, but we have to say even I have to

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Speaker 12: But suddenly Snell shows up. Glass, now's there, Kershaw's good.

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Speaker 12: They're Nixon and Max in the bullpen. They got guys

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that that was the situation that just

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Speaker 2: baseball things work out. They're way too good to be

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Speaker 2: So you know, your numbers speak for themselves. Those players

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Speaker 12: They're too much talent, yeah, exactly, to.

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Speaker 4: I like what they have.

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Speaker 12: Oh yeah, look, I just did an essay on them.

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Speaker 12: They have three new regulars in the position, in the

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Speaker 12: they're not quite as great, and yet they're still kind

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Speaker 12: of superstars. All right. Brewers have won twenty nine of

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Speaker 12: thirty four. I'm gonna say that again. Brewers have won

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Speaker 12: twenty nine of thirty four. I know your agent's tough,

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Speaker 12: are you satisfied with that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to discount winning, and I get it.

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Speaker 3: But when I look at the.

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Speaker 3: Are they really that good?

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Speaker 4: No, they're not.

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Speaker 12: No, nobody's that good. No, nobody's that good.

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Speaker 3: It's insane.

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Speaker 12: However, they're winning all over the place and they have

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Speaker 12: elite talent. Contraristied the game yesterday. He's an elite guy.

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Speaker 12: He's a star. Yelich is a star. They can flat

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Speaker 12: out field, they can run, they don't give you anything,

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Speaker 12: and they've got frontline starting pitching. It's not a phantom.

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Speaker 12: These guys are for real. They are. Nobody's that good,

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Speaker 12: but they're very good.

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Speaker 2: But when you look at the National League, and I

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Speaker 2: get it, where that what they've done and what they've

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Speaker 2: accomplished during the regular season, But you just talked about it.

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Speaker 2: I would take the Padres, Dodgers, and Mets over the

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Speaker 2: Brewers to even start, and I didn't even mention the Phillies.

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Speaker 3: So it is watching Mets baseball.

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Speaker 12: You watch Mets bace like if you want to say

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Speaker 12: Phillies before they lose Wheeler. Okay, but this at least

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Speaker 12: put the Brewers have at least put themselves with Dodgers

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Speaker 12: Padres at the very very least.

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Speaker 3: Okay, But my point is the.

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Speaker 4: Mets have had some runs last year. They had a

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Speaker 4: nice run in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: They have, They've scuffled way, way worse than they are.

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Speaker 4: They're not as bad as.

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Speaker 12: They've lo true, true, but the I mean, you know,

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Speaker 12: the proof is in the pudding, as we used to say,

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Speaker 12: like they're actually getting that done. I mean, it's amazing

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Speaker 12: what they're putting together, all right, but I got.

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Speaker 4: One Brewers number.

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Speaker 2: They've lost eleven of the last thirteen playoff games, so

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Speaker 2: they got to show me.

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Speaker 12: Oh my gosh, you go. You know, it's like bringing

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Speaker 12: up Buffalo Bill's playoff games. It's past tense, it's Marv Levy,

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Speaker 12: it's over. I knew you'd like that. Pete Alonzo breaks

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Speaker 12: the Mets home run record, all right, big thing in

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Speaker 12: New York, it's a constant thing around here. Is it

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Speaker 12: a big thing outside of New York?

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Speaker 13: No?

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Speaker 3: I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: I think it's for Mets fans. Darrel Strawberry held it.

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Speaker 2: For a long time, a big time favorite. I get it,

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Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo, but I just think in this whole idea

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Speaker 2: of Alonso doing this, the Mets owe him an apology

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Speaker 2: and probably a new contract. They didn't even want the

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Speaker 2: god he's one of their homegrown talents.

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Speaker 3: Well, and this is a guy who's now their all

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Speaker 3: time home run leader.

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Speaker 2: They had seven hundred and sixty five million dollars for

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Speaker 2: Juan Soto, but they had no money for Pete Alonzo,

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Speaker 2: and he's your all.

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Speaker 12: Time home run I think they now. It's not that

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Speaker 12: they didn't want him. I think there was a difference

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Speaker 12: of opinion as to where he slots right and right.

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Speaker 12: There's a huge disparity that doesn't make sense between Soto

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Speaker 12: and Alonzo. However, he's making twenty seven million a year.

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Speaker 12: They made him kind of whole short term and he's

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Speaker 12: got an option. So he came back without egg on

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Speaker 12: his face. I thought it wasn't insulting and take a

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Speaker 12: look at this. I just want to throw this out

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Speaker 12: because as far as like, hey, now he's you got

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Speaker 12: to throw three hundred million at him or whatever it is,

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Speaker 12: like herere Alonzo's number is his slash line and his

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Speaker 12: numbers this year, they're not all that different. The ops

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Speaker 12: plus is a little better this year because offense is down.

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Speaker 12: But just if I would tell people look around at

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Speaker 12: the slugging. He's slugging five fourteen for his career, that

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Speaker 12: includes his monstrous rookie year, and he's slugging five nineteen

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Speaker 12: this year. Got off to a great start. But he's

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Speaker 12: kind of the same guy, Rob, which is good. He's productive,

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Speaker 12: he plays, he's a total bass guy. But he has

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Speaker 12: not hit superstar. I don't know Corey Seeger level, Sodo level,

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Speaker 12: Harper Machado level. Not quite that I'll.

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Speaker 3: Agree with that.

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Speaker 4: But the standpoint of this, he can play in New York.

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Speaker 4: Everybody can't play in New York.

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Speaker 3: He's produced for them.

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Speaker 4: In big moments with big home runs, right, yes, okay, yes.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing is he stays healthy, he's in

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Speaker 3: the lineup, he's a lot of.

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Speaker 12: He's gonna be thirty one, right, He's gonna be thirty one.

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Speaker 12: But right, there's a place in between an unrealistic contract

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Speaker 12: and good money for you. And I'm a big believer

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Speaker 12: in this. You're homegrown guy. I'm with you on that, Rob, Rob.

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Speaker 12: I want to get to this. Commissioner Rob Manford on

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Speaker 12: Sunday Night Baseball last night, he spoke at length about realignment.

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Speaker 12: Let's listen in.

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Speaker 13: I think if we expand, it provides us with an

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Speaker 13: opportunity to geographically realign. I think we could save a

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Speaker 13: lot of wear and tear on our players in terms

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Speaker 13: of travel. And I think our postseason format would be

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Speaker 13: even more appealing for you know, entities like ESPN, because

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Speaker 13: you'd be playing up out of the east, out of

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Speaker 13: the West, and that ten o'clock time slot where we,

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Speaker 13: you know, sometimes get Boston Anaheim. Would be two West

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Speaker 13: Coast teams and that ten o'clock slot that's a problem

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Speaker 13: for us sometimes becomes a real opportunity for our West

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Speaker 13: Coast audience.

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Speaker 12: Interesting, Rob, Now Rob Manford is talking down the line,

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Speaker 12: but he's talking about possibility of an eat kind of

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Speaker 12: like you know, basketball, hockey, East Coast, Eastern Conference, Western Conference.

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Speaker 12: Are we ready for that?

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Speaker 4: I'm not ready for it.

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Speaker 2: I get it, and I understand why leagues do it,

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Speaker 2: and financial or whatever.

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Speaker 4: I just I'm not ready for those kind of changes.

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Speaker 4: I'm not ready for expansion. I love the baseball when

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Speaker 4: we twenty four teams.

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Speaker 12: It'll be two teams. I think I think baseball easily

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Speaker 12: absorbs two more teams. But I'm with you in that. Yeah,

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Speaker 12: I like the idea. I'm nostalgic. I like the history

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Speaker 12: of the game. I like a National League and American League.

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Speaker 12: There were once very separate leagues. But if you were

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Speaker 12: starting getting to borrow with Joel shermanism, if you were

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Speaker 12: starting baseball today, you wouldn't start with separate leagues. You

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Speaker 12: wouldn't have the teams in New York not playing each

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Speaker 12: other all the time, or in Chicago not playing each other,

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Speaker 12: or LA not playing each other all the time. You'd

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Speaker 12: have them playing all the time. If you're remaking it,

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Speaker 12: you'd have them playing local rivalries playing all the time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I think it gets worn out

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Speaker 4: after a while.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, I don't want to go I just remember,

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Speaker 2: as someone who lives in Los Angeles and watching the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers play the Colorado Rockies nineteen times, I was.

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Speaker 12: Like, that's not a hot rivalry. But there's hot rivalries within,

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Speaker 12: you know, within the realignment. There's Me's Phillies, you know, Yankees,

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Speaker 12: Red Sox. Obviously, there's a lot of hot rivalries within those.

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Speaker 12: I get it.

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Speaker 2: But there's also a lot of dog team that you'd

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Speaker 2: have to play a lot as well, just to balance off.

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Speaker 12: Make a dog division? Have I make a dog division.

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Speaker 4: I'm just saying there would be a lot of bad games.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know baseball. Sometimes I think you gotta be careful.

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Speaker 2: The league is doing well, tendance is off, fans are

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Speaker 2: into a social media.

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Speaker 4: TV numbers are good.

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Speaker 12: Playoff while we're doing too much.

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Speaker 4: I love where we are right now.

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Speaker 12: Down the line. But yeah, you can you can kind

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Speaker 12: of see it coming. I get it, all right, Rob,

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Speaker 12: great by the way you look like you're in a precinct?

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Speaker 12: Is everything all right? Was like you usually have some

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Speaker 12: elaborate background.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to call my attorney, but I can't. I

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Speaker 3: can't get Perry Mason on.

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Speaker 12: The I said when you came in, I was like,

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Speaker 12: are you at the seventy fifth precinct?

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Speaker 3: Where are you?

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Speaker 12: And I'm glad that you got one phone call and

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Speaker 12: you called us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you. If you come bail me out,

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Speaker 4: I would.

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Speaker 12: I would drive down there myself, all right, Rob, I'll

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Speaker 12: see after the show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Rob usually has.

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Speaker 12: Fancy things behind him, at least books or something, or

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Speaker 12: a mural of himself at his own high school.

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Speaker 3: No, this is bologing.

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Speaker 1: It's the Parker pushback shot, the rob tackles the outlandish

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Speaker 1: takes in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 11: Shot.

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Speaker 3: Today, I'm pushing back on all those.

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Speaker 2: People, including my friend Mike Springer, who don't think that

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Speaker 2: John Carlos Stanton is gonna make it.

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Speaker 3: To the Hall of Fame. They could not be more wrong.

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Speaker 4: If John Carlos.

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Speaker 2: Stanton gets five hundred home runs, which he's definitely on

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Speaker 2: pace for, and he gets five hundred home runs, he

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Speaker 2: will be a Hall of Famer. Go look at his numbers,

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Speaker 2: top ten in home runs per at bat, despite all

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Speaker 2: the injuries, despite all the missing games. Five hundred home

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Speaker 2: runs is a magic number. This guy wants. Led the

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Speaker 2: league in home runs, he won a National League MVP,

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Speaker 2: He's done stuff. And then postseason wise, go look, he's

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Speaker 2: on the top ten list of home runs in the

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Speaker 2: postseason as well. He's had a tremendous career despite the injuries.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna tell you he's just fifty six home

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Speaker 2: runs away from reaching the magical number of five hundred.

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Speaker 2: He has two years left on his contract. He has

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Speaker 2: the rest of the season. I think John Carlos stan

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Speaker 2: will reach that number, and Mike Springer he will reach

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Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. I'm Rob Parker and that's my pushback.

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Speaker 6: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 6: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 6: next time.

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Speaker 12: Rob Parker out.

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Speaker 3: He can't Davin. This could be an inside the Parker

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Speaker 2: See you next week, the same bat time, from same

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Speaker 2: Matt's station.