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Speaker 1: From the Berkshires 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 six, Rob Parker. Welcome into another edition

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Speaker 1: of Inside the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and

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Speaker 1: what a show we have for you this week. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk with Gary Sheffield Jr. That's right, Gary Sheffield's son.

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Speaker 1: He drops by, talks about his dad not getting into

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Speaker 1: wait for that. Plus we'll do uh getting Rob, plus

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Speaker 1: why baseball is better that and much more. Let's go

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Speaker 1: better to lead off, it's getting robbed to keep him on.

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Speaker 1: Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories and Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball number one. As you know, the big news

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday was Tom Brady finally decided to hang it

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Speaker 1: up after twenty three NFL season, forty five years old,

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Speaker 1: seven super Bowls, and we know all that, But how

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Speaker 1: the Parker. It's interesting because Tom Brady and the Patriots

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Speaker 1: were caught up in cheating scandals, and somehow, some way,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to stick to Tom Brady as it

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Speaker 1: does to baseball players Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGuire,

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Speaker 1: Sammy Sulsa, all these other guys did more that were

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Speaker 1: all caught up in the steroid era. They didn't get

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Speaker 1: Do people not really care? Uh? Do people not care

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Speaker 1: Because the Patriots got caught in spy gate where they

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Speaker 1: think it would. That would help Brady. People said, well,

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Speaker 1: those that intel helps Brady. Also, he was suspended for

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Speaker 1: like you do with the baseball players. Just be fair,

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Speaker 1: the Pro football Hall of Fame. Number two, the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: Now thirty six years old, played for five teams in

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Speaker 1: creator and of course the son of Gary Sheffield, the

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