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Speaker 1: live in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You

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Speaker 1: give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the

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Speaker 1: scoop on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame voter number one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: a special All Star edition of Inside the Parker. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Rob Parker from Cleveland, and we have a

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Speaker 1: great show for you this week. C C. Sabathia, the

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Speaker 1: about his career, his moment at the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: Also Joel Sherman, longtime New York Post Baseball columnus and

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Speaker 1: MLB network analysts. That plus much more coming your way.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to lead off. It's getting rock to keep

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Speaker 1: him on. Rob's hot take on the three Biggest stories

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Speaker 1: and Major League Baseball number one. People are always talking

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Speaker 1: about the demise of baseball, how baseball doesn't have stars,

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Speaker 1: And I'm here to tell you that it's just not

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Speaker 1: in the first time or since two thousand three, and

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Speaker 1: in that game it featured thirty nine such stars. So

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Speaker 1: not even closed. That's right. The show put on Monday

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Speaker 1: His name is Joel Sherman. You see him one MLB

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Speaker 1: A friend of mine, I appreciate you. I'm glad to

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Speaker 1: do this. Let's do it every thirty years now, bringing

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Speaker 1: It's what the Major League Baseball did for pitchers C C. Sabathia,

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Speaker 1: CC Sabatia wears a Yankee uniform, but it all started

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Speaker 1: It's not often in a sport that you'll see this.

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Speaker 1: It reminds me of when Derek Jeter was on at

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Speaker 1: goes here in Cleveland with CC Sabat there he wears

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Speaker 1: he never was able to win in Cleveland, in the

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Speaker 1: years and years, and for baseball, that puts CC front center.

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Speaker 1: And not let this moment go by without him getting

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Speaker 1: on it. I don't think you see this in the

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Speaker 1: the NFL. This is why Major League Baseball is better

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Speaker 1: TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your

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Speaker 1: time this time until next time. Rob Parker out. He

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Speaker 1: can't get it. This could be an inside the Parker

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Speaker 1: to see you next weekend, same bad time, same man station.