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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 into

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Speaker 1: Inside the Parker. I am Rob Parker, your host, Hall

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Speaker 1: thrilled to bring in this podcast every week. I love

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball and we have a great show. Today

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Speaker 1: we have ours our special guest, Darryl Strawberry, the former

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Speaker 1: met Yankee Giant Dodger. He'll join us. Also, Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame baseball writer Hal McCoy from the Dayton Daily News

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Speaker 1: will also talk to him. And don't forget, we'll let

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Speaker 1: you trash talk on Twitter, your chance to trash anyone

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball or anything in the game. Plus

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Speaker 1: I'll give you my top three teams in baseball this week.

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Speaker 1: Fasten your seatbelts. The podcast is starting. Here comes Getting Robbed.

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Speaker 1: Better to lead off, It's Getting Robbed and keep him on.

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Speaker 1: Robs Hot take on the three biggest stories in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball number one. The New York Yankees are the

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Speaker 1: best team in baseball. Yes, I said it. This is

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Speaker 1: that other nonsense that we hear all the time. Let's

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Speaker 1: just face it. It's an incredible what they've been able

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Speaker 1: and it got off to a Jankee not Yankee, a

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Speaker 1: How many games did they win a year ago? A hundred?

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Speaker 1: They won a hundred games. I wonder how many games

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Speaker 1: they don't would have won had Judge been healthy for

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Speaker 1: team easily. The team on the injured list is better

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Speaker 1: than the team they're playing on the field. Look closely

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Speaker 1: at the Yankees. Do not poop to what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: I thought before the season that they would win the

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Speaker 1: Al East and they would make it to the World Series.

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Speaker 1: without their lineup. How that's because they're that good. That's

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Speaker 1: when you look at teams, not when everybody's there and

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Speaker 1: Some people don't understand what Jake Arietta said when he

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Speaker 1: Cardinals third baseman Fernando Tattoos hit two Grand slams in

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. How you doing. I'm doing great,

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Speaker 1: Rob Man, It's good to talk to you, Bro, no

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