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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars 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 eight six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am Rob Parker, your host. What a show we

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Speaker 1: have for you today. One are the all time great

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Speaker 1: pitchers in baseball? Dot good and that's right, he joins

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Speaker 1: us on the podcast. Also, ESPN National corresponded Pedro Gomez,

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Speaker 1: he will as well appear. Let's go up to lead off.

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

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

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Speaker 1: According to sources, major League Baseball could come up with

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Speaker 1: an idea of having a bubble type form for the postseason. Uh.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be like the NBA at a single site.

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Speaker 1: Maybe more like the NHL where they have multiple sites. Uh,

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Speaker 1: something like that, where they could try to keep the

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Speaker 1: players safe. For the most part, most of baseball is functioning.

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Speaker 1: You know, you do have the outbreaks with the Marlins

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Speaker 1: and the Cardinals, but to make sure to ensure that

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Speaker 1: we have a postseason without interruption. A bubble type idea

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs sounds like a good idea. Number two.

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Speaker 1: We're not sure how serious this could be, but on

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night Aaron Judge was pinched hit and then Wednesday

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Speaker 1: he wasn't going to be in the lineup because of

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Speaker 1: what they called quote lower body tightness. And that would

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Speaker 1: be with the calves and the hamstring. Aaron Judge has

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Speaker 1: to stay healthy for the Yankees. That's what everybody was

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Speaker 1: He's off to an unbelievable start, leading major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: lead in RBIs with twenty. And if this was a

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Speaker 1: you ready for a hundred and one home runs at

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Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty three RBIs, Wow. The Yankees just

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Speaker 1: what else could it be? The Houston Astros have an

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Speaker 1: unbelievable roster, but somehow, some way, three of their big time.

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Speaker 1: Hitters are struggling going into Wednesday's action. Jose al two

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Speaker 1: very batting one eight three, George Springer batting one eighty two,

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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman batting two four. This is the same team

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Speaker 1: that going to the World Series two years in a row,

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Speaker 1: and instead they are struggling. Even their bullpen has been

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Speaker 1: putriots so far with seven blown saves. Get this. Last

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Speaker 1: year the Astros blue just twenty games all year, en

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Speaker 1: they're on pace for twenty five blown saves and a

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Speaker 1: bad start, maybe it's just bad luck. But the Astros

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Speaker 1: right now they sting. Here comes the big interview. Listen

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Speaker 1: Headler good All right, now, let's welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: One of my favorites, Dwight Gooden, better known as Doc

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Speaker 1: Gooden dr K, who of course was a Rookie of

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Speaker 1: the Year in ninety four. UH took Baseball by storm

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Speaker 1: was an unbelievable picture, and he joined us on the

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Speaker 1: podcast What's up Dot doing great? Let's let's talk some baseball.

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Speaker 1: Jump right into it. UH playing during the pandemic. This

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Speaker 1: have I had a lot of negative tests. Doc, what

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Speaker 1: you have opted out? That's a great question. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: entertaining squad. You know, they've got Joanne Moncada, They've got

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Speaker 1: Louis Robert and center, uh you know, veteran Josea Bray

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Speaker 1: who at first they I mean, they've got they've got

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Speaker 1: real talent on that club. You know, they added you

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be there. They're a fun team

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Speaker 1: to watch. Rob think of and I know, you know basketball,

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Speaker 1: think of the old Son's back when Nash and Startomeyer

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Speaker 1: Bell and you know, all those guys were playing for

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Speaker 1: the Sons and they were. They may not have been

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Speaker 1: the champs, but they were a fun watch. That's how

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Speaker 1: I view the White Sox. They're a fun watch, no

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Speaker 1: doubt about it. All. Right, last thing, Pago your World

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Speaker 1: Series pick. You can give me what you pick. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you've changed, I doubt it. But what

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Speaker 1: you picked before the season started, who did you have

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Speaker 1: representing the American League and National League? Well? I had

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Speaker 1: the Oakland Day He's winning it all, and I think

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna stick with that because they're playing really, really

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Speaker 1: good ball. I was gonna say that that's a good call.

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Speaker 1: For whatever reason, they can never get past the Yankees

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Speaker 1: in the postseason. But they had great years. Yeah, they've

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Speaker 1: they've had more struggles getting you know, the wild card

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Speaker 1: game obviously, but they look like they're going to be

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Speaker 1: in a position where they're not going to have to

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Speaker 1: play that Well, there's not a one game wild cards

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Speaker 1: first of all, but but they looked like they weren't

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Speaker 1: going to be in that position regardless even if it

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Speaker 1: had been a full season. I just saw a club

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Speaker 1: that won seven games each of the last two years.

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Speaker 1: Lost in the wild card round each of the last

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Speaker 1: two years. But then they when I saw them in

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Speaker 1: spring training early before spring training got halted back in February. Um,

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Speaker 1: they just looked to me like a club that was

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Speaker 1: out to say the Astros cheated. Won the division each

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Speaker 1: of the last two years with over a hundred wins,

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Speaker 1: and who knows how many of those wins were legitimate.

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Speaker 1: We probably are the better team and we're going to

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Speaker 1: show everyone this year. And that that also was of

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Speaker 1: the reason that I took the A S. Plus, they're

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Speaker 1: very talented. I mean, you've got Oldston at first, You've

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Speaker 1: got Chapman at third, You've got Simi in at short,

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Speaker 1: You've got a great young rotation. Um. They they've got

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Speaker 1: a lot of good pieces. They've got a great manager

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Speaker 1: in Bob Melvin. So I'm gonna stick with Oakland. Uh

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Speaker 1: And you know I made to pick before, and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna stick with him. I had the Dodgers going in

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Speaker 1: the National League, and look, talent wise, the Dodgers are

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Speaker 1: still loaded. I know they're not playing up to maybe

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Speaker 1: the capability, but Dustin May right now, he may have

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Speaker 1: the best stuff in the entire game. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that there's a picture with better more electric stuff right now.

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Speaker 1: And then if you've got him, you've got Walker Bueller.

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Speaker 1: You still have Clayton Kershaw, who I know is maybe

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Speaker 1: third or fourth in that rotation now. But if that's

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Speaker 1: your three or four, that's pretty damn good, no doubt

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Speaker 1: about it. His name Pedro Gomez, national correspondent from ESPN

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Speaker 1: and my friend of the all time. Thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: the podcast, my man. I appreciate you. Stay safe, oh Rob,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely when we were friends. We didn't have gray hair

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Speaker 1: when we met. That when we met, no doubt. Take

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Speaker 1: care of my brother, all right, you too. Now it's

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Speaker 1: time for some diamond dust with Wish TVs. Phil Sanches.

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Speaker 1: He played baseball in college. Now Here is MLB knowledge,

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Speaker 1: so believe it or not, we're all ready about a

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Speaker 1: quarter of a way through the shortened season, and with

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Speaker 1: the exception of the Miami Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals,

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Speaker 1: things have gone pretty smoothly. Now. The problem is every

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Speaker 1: time a game is postponed, it throws a wrinkle into

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Speaker 1: the schedule, and time, of course is of the essens well.

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Speaker 1: That brings us to the fall and playoff time. Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball cannot risk having a Marlins or Cardinals debacle

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Speaker 1: in October, and the league knows that. That's why the

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Speaker 1: league officials are holding ongoing discussions about what to do

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Speaker 1: or the playoffs, and the answer just might be a

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Speaker 1: bubble type atmosphere. That's according to ESPN Jeff pass It,

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Speaker 1: who says sources have told him that the league is

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Speaker 1: having ongoing discussions about a postseason bubble type format. Now

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Speaker 1: it makes total sense, no doubt about that, but it's

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Speaker 1: not going to be easy. Remember MLB has expanded the

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Speaker 1: playoffs this season to include sixteen teams, so hosting all

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Speaker 1: of those teams in one location probably out the window.

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Speaker 1: The only way it can be done is if you

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Speaker 1: use three or four location. But where will set locations be,

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Speaker 1: because that only will we still be dealing with the

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Speaker 1: pandemic come this fall, but we'll also be dealing with

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Speaker 1: whether specifically in certain northern cities in September and October.

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Speaker 1: So a lot for the league and its officials to

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Speaker 1: sift through over the next few weeks, and I say

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Speaker 1: do whatever you can to make it happen. We need

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Speaker 1: postseason baseball as long as you can do it safely. Now,

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Speaker 1: bringing the closer. Here's why MLB is better than the

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Speaker 1: NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close. Baseball is

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Speaker 1: better than the NBA and the NFL for a lot

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Speaker 1: of reasons, one which is, you never know how a

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Speaker 1: game is gonna end, or you know what could be

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Speaker 1: the scenario. It's not always the same. You know, it

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Speaker 1: could be a dropped infield pop up. It could be

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Speaker 1: like an inside the parker to lose the game. It

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Speaker 1: could be a base running blunder. I mean, there's so

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Speaker 1: many brazoar ways that baseball can end, uh and walk

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Speaker 1: off fashion. It's not always just the walk off home

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Speaker 1: run or something like that. Uh. You know, you could

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Speaker 1: be walked in, forced the bait, forced, a run in

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Speaker 1: with the bases loaded. There's just so many quirky way

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Speaker 1: is a baseball that it leaves you on the edge

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Speaker 1: of your seat. You never know what's coming. How about

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Speaker 1: the game ending on a bark with a pitch of

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Speaker 1: flinches and a man on third. That's baseball. In the

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Speaker 1: words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen,

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Speaker 1: thanking you for your time this time until next time.

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker out. He can't get it This could be

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Speaker 1: an inside the parker to see you next weekend, same

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Speaker 1: bad time, same man station,