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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 seven, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into another edition of the Inside the Parker Podcast.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Rob Parker on the road.

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Speaker 2: That's right on the road in New York for a

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Speaker 2: great show. Steve you can and drops by from DraftKings.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to us about gambling on baseball, just how

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Speaker 2: this thing is going to develop.

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Speaker 3: Plus we have foul affair that plus much more. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off. It's getting robbed and keep

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Speaker 1: them out. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories

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Speaker 2: Number One, It has reached Penn time for the New

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Speaker 2: York Metropolitans. And you know what, I can't blame them.

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Speaker 2: The team is way too talented to be struggling the

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Speaker 2: way they have. I mean, they got great pitching. They

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Speaker 2: won one hundred and one games last year, but they're struggling.

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Speaker 2: So the Mets have called up their power hitting prospect,

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Speaker 2: Mark Ventos and Viento's came up last year.

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Speaker 3: You know, had a brief stan bet.

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Speaker 2: At one sixty seven in sixteen games at a home

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Speaker 2: run when he came up to the Mets. But he's

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Speaker 2: going to be in the lineup on Wednesday night when

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Speaker 2: the Mets take on the Tampa Bay Rays at City Field,

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Speaker 2: and they need something to this lineup. Maybe this kid

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Speaker 2: can provide a boost, some power, some home runs because

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Speaker 2: they've had a power or outage and they need something.

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Speaker 3: You know, like the organization wasn't short.

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Speaker 2: They had some reservations about bringing up the kid, but

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Speaker 2: they need to bring him up. I mean, what do

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Speaker 2: you He's he's playing well down at Syracuse coming in

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Speaker 2: to Tuesday night slashing three thirty three, four, sixteen.

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Speaker 2: You know, so why not he's performing well? Why not

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Speaker 2: give him a chance? This guy was is the team

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Speaker 2: seventh rank prospect according to MLB Pipeline. So Mark Bientos

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Speaker 2: the starting and regular DH for the Metropolitans who need

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Speaker 2: Mark Bientos is there.

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Speaker 1: Number two.

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Speaker 2: Shame on the Toronto Blue Jays play by playing color

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Speaker 2: man for accusing Aaron Judge of cheating. Really, really, we

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Speaker 2: know the whole incident. Tuesday night, his eyes were getting big,

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Speaker 2: He's looking over at the dugout, and Judge wound up

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Speaker 2: hitting two home runs in that game, and they were

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Speaker 2: questioning whether or not even the Yankees were stealing signs

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Speaker 2: or whatever it may be. This was so obvious to me.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this was so obvious that the Blue Jays

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Speaker 3: He even admitted it on Wednesday that he was tipping

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Speaker 2: And if you tip your pitches and your and your

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Speaker 2: off that slider, which is his out pitch and when

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Speaker 2: it's coming, there's nothing wrong with that. That's not cheating,

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Speaker 2: that's gamesmanship. Hi, your signs, don't tip your pitches. To

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Speaker 3: Hello, is this on? He hit sixty two bombs, set

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Speaker 3: an American League record a year ago. Stop it.

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Speaker 2: You could say it looked funny, But I'm surprised. Buck Martinez,

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Speaker 2: the color man of the Blue Jays, didn't realize what

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Speaker 3: Streak six for sixteen. Get this, five home runs and

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Speaker 2: Of the four game hitting streak, five have been home runs,

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Speaker 3: He's still hurt. So Aaron Judge doesn't need to cheat.

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Speaker 3: Everybody knows it. Shame on the Blue Jays announcers Number three, Rovo.

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Speaker 2: It's a future Hall of Famer and Dodger pitcher Clayton Kershaw,

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Speaker 2: let's get it straight. The outing was brief. For the

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Speaker 3: Lost five to one. No one's gonna blame him for that.

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Speaker 2: And I know some people would think that strange that

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Speaker 3: I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: I had very similar thing happened to me when my

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Speaker 3: So I did the show.

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Speaker 2: After the show was over, I let them know that

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Speaker 2: And Clayton Kershaw had the option to pitch. He wanted

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Speaker 2: probably in honor of his mom and Clayton Kershaw.

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Speaker 3: Might have lost on the mound, but let me tell

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Speaker 2: In the eyes of a lot of people, he won

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Speaker 2: on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: It was a big week in the big leagues. Believe

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Speaker 1: Is it foul or is it fair? And now from

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Speaker 2: Tim Anderson was mouthing, quote, I hate this place after

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Speaker 2: being booed at home for what fans perceived as not hustling.

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Speaker 2: He later said he was referring to the pitch clock,

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Speaker 2: he had done, Jr. Is it foul or fair to

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Speaker 3: Fair?

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Speaker 4: It's a ball TA seven had something special brewing in Chicago.

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Speaker 4: Once upon a time. He was a rising star and

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Speaker 4: His team was also contending for playoffs, and in the

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Speaker 4: Then the injuries and a couple of dramatic incidences with Anderson,

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Speaker 4: THA seven is in a no win situation and the

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Speaker 4: change of scenery to a contender with other stars in

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Speaker 4: a bigger market seems to suit this MLB bro flow

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket protector centro. The analytic numbers

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Speaker 1: you need to know?

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is

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Speaker 3: What do you got for me, Anthony?

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Speaker 5: We're about six weeks into the season. The weather is

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Speaker 5: starting to get warmer, which means two things. One Summer's

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Speaker 5: The season we've seen thirty six home runs at four

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Speaker 5: and of course, the NLMVP front runner Ronald Acunya Junior.

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Speaker 5: Finally healthy, Acunya is having an incredible start to his campaign,

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Speaker 5: with multiple such stingers this entire season is the Giants

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Speaker 5: Mitch Haniger. In the stackcast era, only two other players

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Speaker 5: have it more four hundred and fifty foot bombs prior

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Speaker 5: On average, Acunia's home runs a season at traveling at

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Speaker 5: by the way, hit eighteen of his twenty five home

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto.

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Speaker 1: If I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer

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Speaker 1: or broadcaster, old or new.

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Speaker 2: Now, let's welcome in Steve Buchanan from DraftKings. This guy's

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Speaker 2: a baseball guy, baseball expert, joining us here on inside

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Speaker 2: the Parker.

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Speaker 3: What's up, Steve?

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Speaker 6: How are we doing, man? How are we doing on

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Speaker 6: this beautiful, beautiful Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we're doing just great. Let's get to it.

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Speaker 2: I was surprised of the noise that was made about,

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Speaker 2: you know, maybe Aaron Judge cheating or whatever with his eyes. Steve,

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Speaker 2: that was obvious to me. I'm not a major League.

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Speaker 2: I'm not you know, I know Baseball cover. This is

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty six, okay, major League Baseball. I thought that

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Speaker 6: that's been part of the game forever, for as long

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Speaker 6: Here's what really disappointed me with the Chicago White Sox.

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to the Padres, who are underperforming. I still

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Speaker 3: They will bounce back. But I said this when he originally.

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Speaker 2: Turned down the four hundred and forty dollars, I think

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Speaker 2: Last Steve just telling me going into the season, who

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Speaker 2: All Right, his name is Steve Buchanan. Check him out DraftKings.

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Speaker 3: Steve. We appreciate you. Thanks for the knowledge, my man.

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Speaker 6: Hey anytime, Rob, I appreciate it. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better

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Speaker 2: Reason number nine hundred and ninety five why Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NFL and the NBA. It's

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Speaker 3: This is going to be some experience. I start the

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Speaker 2: I'm going to Chicago twice? Did I mentioned the Cubs?

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Speaker 2: Nowhere else do they give you. Anybody gives you two

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Speaker 3: It will be marvelous.

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Speaker 2: We'll have some blue moons, We'll catch up with friends

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Speaker 2: So I'll be off from the radio for a week,

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Speaker 6: See you next week, same bat time, from the same

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