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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, Rob Parker. Welcome to a very special

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Speaker 1: edition of Inside the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker,

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Speaker 1: and we're on the road as I make a special

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Speaker 1: trip around Baseball America, going through Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Anahn,

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Speaker 1: and finally San Francisco. Yes, it's the baseball trip to

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

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Speaker 1: hot take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Number one, how bad are the Los Angeles Angels? My God?

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Speaker 1: On Tuesday Night show, Hey Otani, the two way star

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Speaker 1: these Angels are scuffling. Even with the firing of Joe Madden.

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Speaker 1: The Angels find themselves in third place in the American

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge from the New York Yankees, the slugger who

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Speaker 1: but this will be interesting. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. For the

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, it's time for the pocket protector Central,

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Speaker 1: the analytic numbers you need to know? Well, maybe Anthony

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Speaker 1: too much. Spider attackers dangerous. Around the same time as

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Speaker 1: damn example of how nice Garrick Cole is. That sticky

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Speaker 1: How are you, God, Rob? How you doing these days? Man? Man?

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Speaker 1: Life is good, not as good as baseball in New York.

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Speaker 1: Just just about everything, you know. Nobody recognizes these Mets,

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