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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.

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Speaker 3: What a great show we have for you today. On

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Speaker 3: the fourth of July.

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Speaker 2: Mets outfielder DJ Stewart he'll stop by.

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Speaker 3: Also Anthony Masterson.

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Speaker 2: You know we call him the pocket protector around here.

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Speaker 2: You'll have some numbers that you can chew on. Plus

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Speaker 2: foul a fail with JR. Gampbell, that and much more.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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

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Speaker 2: Number one, we cannot say an about Yankee center fielder

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge.

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Speaker 3: This guy had a terrible April.

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Speaker 2: Remember fans in the Bronx were giving him the Bronx cheer.

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Speaker 3: They boot erin Judge. He got off to a terrible start.

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Speaker 2: People were upset, not happy with what was going on

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Speaker 2: with the Yankees to start the season. As far as

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is hitting, and guess what coming into the

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Speaker 2: month of July. Across his last fifty games five zero,

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge was batting three ninety eight with an OPS

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Speaker 2: of fourteen thirty nine.

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Speaker 3: That would be the highest OPS over any.

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Speaker 2: Fifty games spanned by a right handed hitter in the

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Speaker 2: history of baseball.

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Speaker 3: Did you hear?

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Speaker 2: Is this Mike going? Did you hear what I said?

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Speaker 2: The highest ops of any right handed hitter in a

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Speaker 2: fifty game span. That's incredible in the history of the

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Speaker 2: game that's been around since Moby Dick was a guppy.

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Speaker 2: It tells you what kind of magical season Aaron Judges having.

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Speaker 3: Here we are.

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Speaker 2: July fourth, he has eighty three RBIs Hack Wilson had

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Speaker 2: the most in a major league season one hundred and

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Speaker 2: ninety one. Hack Wilson, Judges are gonna get there. But

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Speaker 2: my god, could he get one sixty? And Aaron Judge

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Speaker 2: has thirty two home runs? I think he could get

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Speaker 3: I really do.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if he broke Barry Bond's home run record?

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Speaker 2: What would that be like? Can he do it? He's

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Speaker 2: incredible and you talk about no it's amazing that they

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Speaker 2: still pitch to him when the you know, they're missing

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Speaker 3: Guys in that.

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Speaker 2: Rizzo and in, and they still pitch the judge and

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Speaker 2: he still makes them pay. But he's put on a

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Speaker 2: absolute clinic every time I look and he gets another

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Speaker 2: hit or And he's not just swinging for defenses. With

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Speaker 2: like over three twenty in a league where nobody hits

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Speaker 2: over over two hundred anymore. Aaron Judge is hitting for average,

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Speaker 2: for power, he's driving in runs, He's doing it all

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Speaker 2: with the bat. We're watching an incredible season one we

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Speaker 2: have not seen from a hitter. So you know what

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Speaker 2: full that TV said a little closer to you, pay attention.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Judges having a season for.

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Speaker 1: The Ages number two.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're.

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Speaker 2: Starting to hear about the All Star starters as voted

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Speaker 3: Who's going to be the starting pitcher for the National League.

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Speaker 2: I got a name. His name is Chris Sale. Chris

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Speaker 2: Sale should be the starter for the National League. The

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Speaker 2: Braves left hander has had a tremendous season. The Saft

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Speaker 2: Park has tallied and a major league leading eleven wins,

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Speaker 2: and he has returned to his elite status after the

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Speaker 3: He was mostly injured. It's unbelievable what he's done.

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Speaker 2: Coming into Thursday, Sale ranked third in the National League.

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Speaker 3: With a two point seven to one ERA.

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Speaker 2: That was through sixteen stars, ninety nine to two third

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Speaker 3: He has been lights out for the Brakes. What a

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Speaker 2: Chris Sale, who couldn't stay healthy in Boston, who was

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Speaker 2: a tremendous picture with the White Sox in Chicago, but

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Speaker 2: for the National League in the All Star He deserves it.

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Speaker 2: Eleven wins. I don't know about you, but Chris Sale

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Speaker 2: sure he will, and that'll be fun to watch. Number three,

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Speaker 2: It's official.

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Speaker 3: The New York Yankees are Scotland.

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Speaker 2: They lost back to back games at home to the

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Speaker 3: When they were running away with it and doing everything.

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Speaker 2: But I think people will have, somehow, some way not

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Speaker 2: realize what's happened to the Yankees. Sure, they got Garrett

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Speaker 3: And that is where you could really go back.

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Speaker 2: And look at the Yankees and see where they are

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Speaker 2: seven of nine. That team, their era was under three.

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Speaker 2: They were hitting home runs left and right. But now

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Speaker 3: And you can't win like that. You gotta have production

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Speaker 2: And right now the Yankees are missing two big bats,

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Speaker 2: the skids.

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Speaker 3: We're so good. Now let's welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 2: DJ Stewart of course, Mets Outfield or DJ, how are you?

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Speaker 4: I'm great, doing great. Teams, teams playing well. We're winning

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Speaker 4: games and that's all you can ask for doing great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about that. What a turnaround for the Mets.

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Speaker 2: I mean really, it was looking pretty shaky. Things were

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Speaker 2: can you put a finger on what happened?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's us having that team meeting all

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Speaker 4: of trying to get over that hunt, like what can

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Speaker 4: And then when Francisco called the team meeting and had

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Speaker 1: At the end of the day.

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Speaker 4: All that matters is winning. I think that's what really

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Speaker 2: How much fun is it coming to the ballpark where

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Speaker 2: you got a shot to win almost every night. Obviously

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Speaker 2: you can't win every night in baseball, but you just

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's fun whether we're winning or losing.

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Speaker 4: Just the atmosphere that has changed. Everyone's pulling for one another.

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Speaker 4: Just even if you're not hitting right then you feel

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Speaker 4: like you're in that at bat with them, just trying

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Speaker 4: I mean coming to the ballpark and you get to

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Speaker 2: How about you started the season mostly of the DHA

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Speaker 2: Is that change anything for you?

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Speaker 3: Does it?

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Speaker 2: Do you have to concentrate more on the fielding part

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Speaker 2: of it? Does that take away from your hitting or

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Speaker 2: does it all you know, rolling together.

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Speaker 4: I was still doing defensive work with our outfield coach

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Speaker 4: Antoine even when I was daching. Now with me not

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Speaker 4: Just being ready and available whenever my name is called

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Speaker 4: and preparing. I know, obviously it's different not seeing like

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Speaker 4: you can. My biggest thing is just staying ready so

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Speaker 2: I gotta be ready. I'm watching these pictures as the

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Speaker 4: I talk with Mindy before every series to kind of

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Speaker 2: We're with Mets outfield. The DJ Stewart joined us here

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Speaker 2: of people were giving credit to Grimace, the McDonald's character

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Speaker 2: to turn around. You already said it was the meeting

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Speaker 2: when everybody held themselves accountable, But did you know about

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Speaker 2: the Grimace and what that was all about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so obviously I saw Grimace throw out the first pitch,

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Speaker 4: didn't know exactly what it was. I just thought it

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Speaker 4: we went either six or seven and zero, and then

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Speaker 4: you start seeing people talk about it, start seeing fans

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Speaker 4: kind of perfect timing we had that meeting. He threw

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Speaker 4: But whatever they want to call it, as long as

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Speaker 2: What's funny is when I was a kid, McDonald's used

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Speaker 2: the food, and it was the Grimace and the Hamburgler,

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Speaker 2: mayor mccheese. Have you looked into it at all or

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Speaker 2: seen any of the commercials? Oh, you need to go

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Speaker 4: I actually just found out exactly what Grimace was the

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Speaker 2: The Tampa Bay Rays have scrapped their way back to

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