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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 seventy, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Rob Parker, with this very special off

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Speaker 3: season audition of Inside the Parker. Coming up, we're gonna

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Speaker 3: talk with the newest member of the Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 3: manager Jim Leland. He joins us and Malachi Wore, a

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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball umpire was giving back to the community.

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Speaker 2: That plus much more. Let's go.

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

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Speaker 4: 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 Number one.

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Speaker 2: It ain't done yet, but we're here in the we're

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Speaker 2: hearing that.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the Yankees are serious about getting Juan Sodo on

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Speaker 3: a trade from the San Diego Padres.

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Speaker 2: This would make a lot of sense. The Yankees need

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Speaker 2: some star power.

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Speaker 3: They need to get Aaron Judge and gian Carlos Dan

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Speaker 3: some some help, and Sodo would be playing for a

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Speaker 3: contract to the left the right Field porch at Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 3: This is a great opportunity for the Yankees and for Sodo,

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Speaker 3: who turned down that four hundred and forty million dollar

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Speaker 3: deal with the Washington Nationals. He never really clicked in

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Speaker 3: the contract of a lifetime almost a half a billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: I know he probably regrets taking it, but the Yankees

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Speaker 3: need Soto and Sodo needs the Yankees. I think this

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Speaker 3: whatever they have to the young players that the Padres

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Speaker 2: They have tattoos, they have Bogarts, and.

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Speaker 3: Who all make over like three hundred million dollars, So

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Speaker 3: and I expect this to happen. Number two, of course,

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Speaker 3: It still feels like he's the Dodgers to lose. And

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Speaker 3: he did meet with Shohy and the Dodgers did and

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Speaker 3: And he wants to play on the West coast, and

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Speaker 3: And it all makes sense. You know, could San Francisco

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Speaker 2: He wants to be on the West Coast.

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Speaker 4: It's so good.

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Speaker 3: All right now, let's welcome into the podcast Jim Leland,

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Speaker 3: who's going to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: He got in through the Veterans Committee almost ninety four

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Speaker 3: percent of the vote. Jim Leland, congratulations from inside the Parker.

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Speaker 3: And for myself, Man, I'm so happy for you.

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Speaker 5: Well, I really appreciate that. I couldn't be happier. I'm

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Speaker 5: very grateful. You know, this is a place that you

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Speaker 5: there'll be a lot of people to thank, but I'm very,

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Speaker 3: And Jim, I mean, what a long run. You were

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Speaker 3: You bounce back after a few years. You come to Detroit,

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Speaker 5: Well, it all starts with opportunity. That's how I'll start

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Speaker 5: to the Hall of Fame. It belongs to the players.

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Speaker 5: I share this with so many people, frontal office, ownership,

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Speaker 2: Talk about you're a manager, that's true. You got to

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Speaker 3: You know that gym. Without players, you ain't winning too

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Speaker 3: to that. But you were a three time Manager of

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Speaker 3: I know they all got to be special. Deep down,

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Speaker 5: Oh there's no question about that. I think, you know,

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Speaker 5: But yeah, that was a special moment. Maggie was home run,

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Speaker 5: And you know, I was fortunate enough to the celebrated

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Speaker 5: one of my finest moments of my careers were in

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Speaker 5: there were several moments that were very, very very exciting.

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Speaker 3: Let's start and did, no doubt, but let's start in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 2: And you had some great players in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: And let's go to Florida with the Marlins in that

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Speaker 3: World Series. That had to be special to nineteen ninety seven.

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Speaker 3: What a squad you had there. That team was loaded.

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Speaker 2: How did that work out?

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Speaker 3: Our guest is Jim Leland, of course, a former major

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Speaker 3: Malachi More, a Major League Baseball umpire, just finished his

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Speaker 2: Malachi, Welcome to the podcast. How are you hey, Rob?

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Speaker 4: How you doing? Thanks for having me. First of all,

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Speaker 4: That's a tremendous accomplishment, very well deserved. Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that for real. Thank you.

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Speaker 3: We look at what you're doing, man, tell me about

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Speaker 3: Let's got some stuff we want to talk about about

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Speaker 4: The first year? Is a full time Major league gumpires

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Speaker 3: Our guest is Malachi Moore, major League Baseball umpire, and

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Speaker 3: Up, and I was like, what else could I do

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Speaker 3: biggest moment that you were at and you experienced.

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Speaker 4: I would have to say my first game ever, me

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Speaker 4: debut in the major leagues. And it was so interesting

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Speaker 4: because I debuted during COVID and you know, you grow

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Speaker 4: up in your you know, your whole career, you're thinking,

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Speaker 4: oh snap, when I get on a major league field,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to have forty fifty thousand people screaming. And

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Speaker 4: it was a complete opposite. You know, there were cardboard,

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Speaker 4: cardboard cutouts out there, and so it was it was

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Speaker 4: something very different different On top of the experience and

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Speaker 4: exposure within itself. So I think that was just mind boy,

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Speaker 4: and it'll never happen hopefully not going. It'll never have

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Speaker 4: and again, and no other umpire will get to experience that.

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Speaker 4: So to be one of the very few to ever

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Speaker 4: get to experience that, I think that was just unreal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that is during those times we almost forget about that,

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Speaker 3: those watching those games with no fans and cut out

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Speaker 3: cardboard fans in the stands and all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 3: But last thing I want to get to is what

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Speaker 3: you have coming up. This is really great and giving

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Speaker 3: back to the community. You have a free two day

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Speaker 3: umpire camp ages twelve and up coming up on Saturday,

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Speaker 3: December ninth and Sunday December tenth. The Compton Youth Academy

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Speaker 3: is the location. Just talk about that giving back to

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Speaker 3: the community. Why is this important to you?

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Speaker 4: It's very important to me, Rob, just because of the

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Speaker 4: fact that I know how I got started and where

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Speaker 4: I came from. I was raised right way, raising church,

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Speaker 4: had a great group of friends growing up, played played

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Speaker 4: football and baseball, played football with Richard Sherman in high school,

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Speaker 4: won some championship. So I went to Comping College under

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Speaker 4: play baseball under the leadership of Shannon Williams, attended the

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Speaker 4: Major League Baseball Youth Academy throughout high school under the

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Speaker 4: great Darryl Miller, who was a tremendous leader and pioneer

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Speaker 4: in youth baseball and youth development. And if it wasn't

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Speaker 4: for Daryl, I wouldn't be here, So thank you to Darryl.

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Speaker 4: But also just for me, it was a way to

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Speaker 4: get involved and stay involved in baseball and umpiring. I

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Speaker 4: had the opportunity to attend the umpire camp, and they

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Speaker 4: gave me the opportunity to go to umpire school and

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Speaker 4: to teach me the fundamentals of how to umpire. And

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Speaker 4: you know, I'm a player, I was a former player.

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Speaker 4: I never wanted to umpire. You know, I never had

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Speaker 4: a I never had a bad moment with the umpire,

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Speaker 4: don't get me wrong. But at the same time, I

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Speaker 4: didn't want to umpire. I wanted I wanted to slide

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Speaker 4: and get dirty and try to stretch a single into

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Speaker 4: a double. You know, that was my game And for me,

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Speaker 4: to umpire was something totally different, something I never thought of.

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Speaker 4: And I went to umpire school, went to the Harry

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Speaker 4: Windowstead Umpire School in Daytona Beach, Florida, and it changed

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Speaker 4: my life forever. And so I became a minor league

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Speaker 4: umpire for eleven years and now I'm a full time

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Speaker 4: major league umpire. And within that there's training that we

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Speaker 4: have to go through. We have to prepare just like

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Speaker 4: the players. We have to review film. We have to

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00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 4: keep our bodies and our minds and good condition, get

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Speaker 4: great sleep, take care of ourselves and so that we're

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Speaker 4: able to go out there on the field and produce

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Speaker 4: and to run a fair game. And it's something that's

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Speaker 4: enjoyable for all fans. And so baseball umpiring is something

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Speaker 4: that's very unique. And this camp here is a free

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Speaker 4: two day camp, and it's something that is going to

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Speaker 4: allow a lot of individuals, a lot. We have a

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Speaker 4: lot of youth signed up. They're going to get an

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Speaker 4: opportunity to go out there and call balls and strikes,

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Speaker 4: get back behind the catcher, call balls and strikes, call

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Speaker 4: someone out at first base, learn about the rules. This

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Speaker 4: camp is not just just for the youth. This camp

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Speaker 4: is for parents, those of you that have kids that

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Speaker 4: are in travel ball or playing baseball. You want to

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Speaker 4: learn the rules, you want to know what's going on

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Speaker 4: out there, be able to help and assist when needed.

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Speaker 4: There's a shortage of umpires in baseball and youth sports

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Speaker 4: across the nation, and to be out there on the

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Speaker 4: field helping out, I think that's that's something that that

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Speaker 4: you know, you it's invaluable. It's a trade that you

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Speaker 4: can take with you forever. You can learn something today

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Speaker 4: or this weekend, and it's going to stick with you

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Speaker 4: for the rest of your life. So we're very excited

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Speaker 4: to give live reps will have I'll be I have

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Speaker 4: to mention that we have an annual toy drive that

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Speaker 4: we're participating in. All toys that will be donated, we'll

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Speaker 4: go to the Long Beach Millard Children's Hospital and we

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Speaker 4: can't wait to just show the love and just the

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Speaker 4: spirit of the holiday season right before Christmas. So this

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Speaker 4: is a way to give back and we're very excited.

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Speaker 4: We have raft Fulls Prizes, major League gumpires coming out.

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Speaker 4: There's tons of opportunity. This is for baseball players, softball players,

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Speaker 4: anyone that's interested, please sign up, Please register and you

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Speaker 4: don't want to miss it.

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Speaker 2: And how where do they go to register?

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Speaker 4: Malacan You can go to the Comptent Youth Academy dot

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Speaker 4: com and register online, and we would love to have

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Speaker 4: you sign up and show up and help participate. It's

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Speaker 4: a great way to stay involved in baseball. And you're

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Speaker 4: going to help yourself and I guarantee you you're going

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Speaker 4: to learn something when you come out there this week.

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Speaker 3: All right, that sounds awesome, man, Thank you for helping

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Speaker 3: the community. Man.

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Speaker 2: That's stuff like that is invaluable.

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Speaker 3: Malachi Moore, major League Baseball umpire, just finished his first

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Speaker 3: full time season last year with Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: All right, appreciate you.

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Speaker 3: Good luck on the clinic and the two day umpire school.

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Speaker 4: Thanks Rob, I really do appreciate it. And again I

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Speaker 4: want to challenge each and every one of you that

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Speaker 4: sit back oftentimes that watch a lot of our games

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Speaker 4: and think that they can do a better job than us.

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Speaker 4: Come on out, have fun. See what it's likes to

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Speaker 4: call balls and strikes. You'll enjoy it.

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Speaker 3: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 3: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 3: next time, Rob Parker out.

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Speaker 2: D can't gevin this could be an inside of Parker.

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Speaker 5: See you next week, same bat time From the same

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Speaker 5: Matt's station,