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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 into

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Speaker 1: the special edition of Inside the Parker. That's right, your

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. Coming

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Speaker 1: up on the show. Former All Star and World Series

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Speaker 1: radio show The Odd Couple with Chris Boussard. But first,

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Speaker 1: here's getting robbed to lead off. It's getting robbed to

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Speaker 1: keep him on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest

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Speaker 1: stories in Major League Baseball. Number one. I get that

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Speaker 1: It's so hard for me to to grab hold of that.

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Speaker 1: imagine a seven game series played at a neutral site.

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Speaker 1: That is not what the game is about. The game

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Speaker 1: This whole notion that it would be bastardized and it

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Speaker 1: Listen and learn. It's so good Cecil, Welcome to the

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Speaker 1: eye couple. What's what's happening? Hey? Thanks Mats. It's great

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Speaker 1: to have you on. Uh, it's always How are you

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Speaker 1: doing the family? Everybody? Robaker? Are you how the family doing? Everybody? Okay, man,

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Speaker 1: you're good man. Now we were hunkered down, man, we

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Eye Couple. Dave. What's up? What's up?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Rob? Are you? What's up? Man? How are you? Rob?

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Speaker 1: What's up? Rob? Every time I think about you, man,

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Speaker 1: a Frank Sinatra. That's all right. It could have been worse, David.

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Speaker 1: the Detroit Tigers. And people loved the Tigers and the

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Speaker 1: where I am now and work, there's nothing better than

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Speaker 1: the voice of Vince Gully to get the game going

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Speaker 1: time for Godger base and as a reporter, you always

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Speaker 1: wanted to get the opening day hours early, four hours

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Speaker 1: early to enjoy BP take it all in us. You're

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Speaker 1: in a new season. See friends from the past, winter

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Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with the other sports. But

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Speaker 1: and Bobby Feller, the scooter, the bomber, and the nuke.

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Speaker 1: They knew him all from Boston. Dude, damn you coronavirus.

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Speaker 1: Today was supposed to be our day. Today was supposed

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Speaker 1: to be opening Day where we would stand and remove

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Speaker 1: we would do it to all over Canada. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: the seventh inning. You know what we would do. Today

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Speaker 1: is a dark day. There's no other way to look

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Speaker 1: at it. There were no hot dogs. There were just

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Speaker 1: there was no beer. Worst of all, there was no

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Speaker 1: baseball on opening Day in America. And this man here

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Speaker 1: before you are Fox Sports Radio, I am just heartbroken.

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Speaker 1: In the words of New York TV Legend of Late

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Speaker 1: Bill Jorgensen thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 1: next time. Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This

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Speaker 1: could be an inside of Parker to see you next week.

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