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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 eighty three, Rob Parker. Welcome into Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker, a great podcast for you.

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Speaker 1: Today we're gonna talk with Jason Dumas, a sportscaster at

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Speaker 1: kron four News and San Francisco, about those streaking Giants. Also,

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Speaker 1: cousin sal you know from Jimmy Kimmel's show, has put

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Speaker 1: out a new documentary about the match. Will chop it

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Speaker 1: up with him? Let's go up to lead off, it's

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Speaker 1: getting robbed and to 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: There's no other way to put it other than chaos.

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Speaker 1: That's where we are in Major League Baseball in the

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Speaker 1: final three weeks. When we talk about the wild card races,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's up for grabs going into Wednesday. The

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Speaker 1: We thought that the Padres and the Reds we're gonna

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals won four in a row, and they jumped

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Speaker 1: in to that second wild card spot because the Reds,

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Speaker 1: the Padres, and the Phillies all went three and seven

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Speaker 1: in their previous ten games to Wednesday, they're all going

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Speaker 1: In the a L, it's about the Red Sox, the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: will be interesting. All three of those teams now are

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Speaker 1: be left out in the coal. The Blue Jays have

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Speaker 1: been red hot um playing great baseball, and uh that's

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Speaker 1: how they've jumped back into this race because it looked

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Speaker 1: all over. And uh, it's chaos, but it's good chaos

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Speaker 1: for the postseason. Number two, it's hard not to look

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Speaker 1: at the American League most valuable player and think that

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Speaker 1: we have a debate on our hands. Yes we do.

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Speaker 1: I know everybody's wanted to hand it to show. Hey

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Speaker 1: O Tani uh for long time, and he's had a

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Speaker 1: absolutely fantastic, unbelievable season we haven't seen. He's betting two fifties,

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Speaker 1: seven forty four home runs, ninety four RBIs when an

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Speaker 1: this is all coming into Wednesday night's action and he's

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Speaker 1: haven't seen this guy a guy do what he's doing

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Speaker 1: since Babe Ruth in the twenties. So he has a

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Speaker 1: turn baseball on its head. But up north in Canada,

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Speaker 1: it's hard to ignore Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Who is putting

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Speaker 1: on a unbelievable season. Um he leads the major leagues

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Speaker 1: Number three today is Roberto Clemente Day in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: And yes, Clemente, the great Great Outfielder Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen, Hendler good, all right, now,

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Speaker 1: let's welcome to the podcast. A friend of mine, cousin

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Speaker 1: network and yes to Jimmy Kimmel show. Cousin Sal, welcome

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Speaker 1: to the podcast. How are you doing, Bud? Thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me on. Right. I was like, you know, this

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Speaker 1: And it's called Once Upon a Time in Queens. It's

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Speaker 1: on ESPN, ESPN plus a four part chronicle of that

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighties six miracle season, and and and and because

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Speaker 1: And it seems like not only is he hitting the

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Speaker 1: here in the bed. Last thing, how important is it

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Speaker 1: One of those two teams, the Dodgers the Giants are

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Speaker 1: think about this. The Dodgers are on pace to win

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Speaker 1: to one game now the team's fighting for that second

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Speaker 1: it's not an ideal situation called any one of those

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Speaker 1: situations I just mentioned, Like if the Giants lost the

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Speaker 1: one game playoff to one of those situations, you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be like, wow, that was I couldn't see that coming.

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Speaker 1: Like you could see Zack Wheeler like pitching a two,

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Speaker 1: two hit shut out against any team in the league.

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Speaker 1: You could see Wayne Right, he's won so many big

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Speaker 1: deep three times, Like, that's just a situation you want

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Speaker 1: to avoid. That's why this, that's why it's just the

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Speaker 1: must see baseball all year long, because of these two

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Speaker 1: one of these teams want to be in that position

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Speaker 1: where they have to have such a great season come

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Speaker 1: down to essentially one game. There. It is love coming

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Speaker 1: from the Bay in the San Francisco Giants. Jason Dumas

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Speaker 1: will appreciate you from our crown for news. Thank you, Bud,

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Speaker 1: thank you Rob. Anytime, man, no, I'll bring in the closer.

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Speaker 1: Here's why MLB is better than the NFL or NBA,

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Speaker 1: and it isn't even close. Reason number one thousand why

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Speaker 1: baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL, And

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Speaker 1: it's because of September and the penance stretch. You know,

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Speaker 1: like I got it. There's a lot of divisions that

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Speaker 1: It's incredible, actually, um because in the East, yeah, basically

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Speaker 1: a virtual three way tie between the Boston Red Sox,

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Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays, and the New York Yankees. Three teams

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Speaker 1: teams that are within striking distance with about three weeks

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Speaker 1: left to the regular season. It's the same in the

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Speaker 1: National League, where the Cardinals have now leap frog over

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Speaker 1: the Padres and red So it's another barn burner there.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, for fans, how could you not

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Speaker 1: might not be decided until the last week or the

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Speaker 1: last day of the season, and the wild card add

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Speaker 1: for my fans, standpoint the wild card without it being crazy.

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Speaker 1: Like the other sports NBA, NFL, too many teams make

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Speaker 1: the playoffs in baseball only ten out of thirty. That's

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Speaker 1: that's that's not a lot. That's the way make the

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Speaker 1: regular season count, and in baseball it does. Ye. In

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Speaker 1: the 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 Parker to see you next weekend. Save that time.

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