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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: 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. What

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Speaker 1: a great show we have for you today. As we

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Speaker 1: us some skinny on the Minnesota Twins trying to win

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Speaker 1: a fair. Let's go up to lead off. It's getting

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Speaker 1: three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one, This

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Speaker 1: was always the issue with the New York Metropolitan Ding. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and here we are. On Wednesday, Max Jersa was headed

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Speaker 1: rob Thanks for having you. I appreciate it, no doubt. Man,

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Speaker 1: you play for everybody, the Twins, the Cubs, the Giants,

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Speaker 1: after Matt Ryan and all those years, Hugh, what kind

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Speaker 1: of season can we expect, you know, briefly on the

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Speaker 1: Atlanta File because it's another bad year for them, you

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Speaker 1: know what it's it's kind of hard to say. I

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Speaker 1: think that devil Ritter is the future. I think that

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Speaker 1: you have to figure out if he could play or not. Listen,

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Speaker 1: Marcus Mayota hasn't played in two years. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what we're gonna get from him. To be totally honest

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Speaker 1: with you, Rob, I think that I think that Letta

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Speaker 1: Falcons have the potential to be a lot better than

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Speaker 1: what people think they are. But it's gonna be a

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Speaker 1: tough season. Man. It's gonna all depend on how well

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Speaker 1: coach ps Dean pss defensive defense plays this year. His

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Speaker 1: name is Shue Douglas. Check him out in Atlanta nine

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Speaker 1: the game. He's doing that Morning Drive the Big Time Show.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate your Hugh always great, my friend, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: They have a good appreciate you. Now bringing 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 five hundred and

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Speaker 1: nine why baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL.

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Speaker 1: And we saw it on Wednesday in the Bronx. The

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Speaker 1: Yankees had a makeup game from the rain out against

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Speaker 1: the Twins, so they had a double dip. They had

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Speaker 1: two games, one that started at three and the other

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Speaker 1: one that was gonna start no later than seven pm

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Speaker 1: Eastern time. And the big thing about this is it

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Speaker 1: wasn't a day night doubleheader where they charge you of

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Speaker 1: you know, um ticket prices for each game, where they

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Speaker 1: empty stadium after the first game and then they bring

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Speaker 1: in a new crowd. This was a single and mission game,

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Speaker 1: so you paid one price and you were able to

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Speaker 1: see two games if you felt the need to see

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Speaker 1: a double dip in the middle of the week in

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Speaker 1: September on a school night. But I love the idea

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Speaker 1: of this, And when I was a kid, we used

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Speaker 1: to go to double headers all the time and back

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Speaker 1: then sit there for five and six hours and not

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Speaker 1: even think anything of it. But it still is the

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Speaker 1: only sport where you can go and see a doubleheader.

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Speaker 1: There's no double header in basketball. There's no double header

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Speaker 1: and football baseball. You can still go see a doubleheader

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Speaker 1: two games for the price of one in the Bronx

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and that is pretty neat. In the words

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Speaker 1: of New York TV legend of Late Bill Jorgensen, thanking

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Speaker 1: you for your time this time until next time. Rob

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Speaker 1: Parker out, he can't get it. This could be an

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Speaker 1: inside the Parker to see you next weekend. Save bad time,

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