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Speaker 1: From the Berke Shears to the sound from wherever you

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Speaker 1: live in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You

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Speaker 1: give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the

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Speaker 1: scoop on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame voter number one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: Inside the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and yes,

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Speaker 1: Game one of the World Series is in the books.

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Speaker 1: And just like I told you, the Nationals are gonna

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Speaker 1: win this thing. They get Game one and the Nationals,

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Speaker 1: I I predict, will win in six games. But we

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Speaker 1: have a great podcast coming to you. A. J. Prazynski

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Speaker 1: will further breakdown both teams will do that. He's from

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports. Plus we have foul affair and a little

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Speaker 1: trash talking that and much more. Let's go to lead off.

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Speaker 1: It's getting robbed and keep him on Rob's hot tea.

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Speaker 1: Got the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one,

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Speaker 1: the World Series that started, and everybody's a buzz about

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Speaker 1: the Astros and Nationals. A lot of people when the

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Speaker 1: season started thought it might be the Dodgers and the

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Speaker 1: And one of the reasons that didn't happen was because

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Speaker 1: not bottom of the ninth inning in Game six of

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Speaker 1: Series and the Yankees home. And if you remember the

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Speaker 1: picture of him on the mound, he was devastated, almost

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Speaker 1: That was the bullpen game. That was supposed to be

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Speaker 1: But in the end, the Yankees with the better bullpen

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Speaker 1: how baseball goes sometimes. It's amazing. That's why you play.

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Speaker 1: No matter what people look at on paper and they

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Speaker 1: it was the Astros getting the better edge and moving

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Speaker 1: and their uncle have basically picked the Astros to win. Yes,

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Speaker 1: The Nationals hadn't been able to get out of uh

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing that I think people haven't really

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Speaker 1: story on MLB dot com basically asking which players who

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Speaker 1: big interview. Listen, all right, let's welcome in former Major

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Speaker 1: Hey J. How you doing. I'm doing great, man, fabulous

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Speaker 1: and so excited about the World Series, no doubt. World

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Speaker 1: Series kicked off last night, Tuesday night, Game one. But

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