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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 fifty six, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Come on, I've been covering Major League baseball for almost

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Speaker 2: forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,

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Speaker 2: in LA.

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Speaker 3: I love this game. Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What

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Speaker 2: a show we have for you today. Rob Friedman, the

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Speaker 2: pitching Ninja. He has a new book. He's gonna explain

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Speaker 2: all of that coming up. Also, we put a spotlight

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Speaker 2: on a fan, a longtime friend of mine, but the

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Speaker 2: biggest met fan I know in Queen's has an unbelievable

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Speaker 2: opening day. We'll talk about that. Plus, Anthony Masterson, the

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Speaker 2: Pocket Protector, is back.

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Speaker 3: For the twenty twenty six season. We'll have him that

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Speaker 3: and much more. Let's go better to lead off, it's

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Speaker 3: getting rocked and keep them mind. 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: the top major.

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Speaker 2: League baseball prospect is coming to the majors. Connor Griffin,

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Speaker 2: the nineteen year old shortstop, has been called up by

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Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Speaker 3: He's going to be ready to.

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Speaker 2: Go and in the lineup for opening day in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 2: on Friday. How exciting is that, Connor Griffin. The Pirates

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Speaker 2: trying to up the any build a good team around

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Speaker 2: Paul Skins, and here they are the number one prospect

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Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball. They're not wasting any time. This

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Speaker 2: is not the old days where they waited four or

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Speaker 2: five years to bring somebody up. They want them to

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Speaker 2: get into the major leagues and start playing and learning

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Speaker 2: right away. This is excitement around all of Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 2: but especially in Pittsburgh, where they're hoping that he could

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Speaker 2: solidify that shortstop position, make the plays necessary, and add

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Speaker 2: a spark to this Pittsburgh Pirates.

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Speaker 3: Team number two.

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Speaker 2: The ABS system is alive and well in Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 2: and on Wednesday night, the first major league game ended

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Speaker 2: on a reversal call of a pitch.

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Speaker 3: It was an eighth to three game, so.

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Speaker 2: It wasn't like it was a close game or anything,

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Speaker 3: So here we are, and the early reviews seem to

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Speaker 2: Fifty four percent of the calls have been overturned in

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Speaker 3: And the umpires, a lot of them are just.

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Speaker 2: Fringe, barely touching the outside of the strike zone, barely

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Speaker 3: Those are the ones that have been overturned.

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Speaker 2: All the rest have been pretty good major League umpires

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Speaker 2: So it wasn't like it was horrible. And we know

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Speaker 2: the umpires do a great job, and the ABS system

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Speaker 2: has actually shown us that those pitches are so close

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Speaker 2: and the umpires have a pretty good eye not to

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Speaker 3: Do I think it's going to be around for a

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Speaker 2: Umpire hind Home play. Yeah, I do not happy about it.

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Speaker 2: I love the human element of baseball. We are people,

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Speaker 2: So right now the fans seem to love it. Doesn't

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Speaker 3: But here we are. The ABS system is here.

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Speaker 2: Number three Early thoughts on the twenty twenty sixth season,

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Speaker 2: and yes, I was in San Francisco for the Giants

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Speaker 2: and Yankees. The opener on Netflix. Yankees win that game

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Speaker 2: People forget that the Yankees and blue Jays both won

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Speaker 2: The blue Jays won the division and the Yankees became

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Speaker 2: Max Freed has been outstanding his first two starts of

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Speaker 2: So the Yankees have pitching. This is gonna be interesting.

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Speaker 3: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn. It's so good.

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Speaker 3: Now let's welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 2: A lifelong New York Mets fan that we had to

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Speaker 2: get on the podcast and a CWPF close, warm, personal

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Speaker 2: friend of mine, Ben bon Jovi originally from Queens Village,

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Speaker 2: New York, who is the biggest Met fan I know,

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Speaker 2: and this past year he celebrated fifty three straight Mets

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Speaker 2: the fifty three And Ben, what's happening?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 4: Love to have you on the podcast. How you doing,

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Speaker 4: Buddy good good? Thanks for having me, no doubt. Come on,

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Speaker 4: Ben fifty three in a row. This is sickness, a madness,

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Speaker 4: Tell me about it.

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Speaker 5: So it's something where, you know, starting with, my mom

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Speaker 5: So you know, in the natural progression of things, first

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Speaker 6: So yeah, it's it's very special to me.

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Speaker 3: That is that is a passion.

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Speaker 2: And that's unbelievable even even to even think about, like.

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Speaker 3: Fans aren't allowed in, but I'm still in the parking.

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Speaker 2: Lot, Like to even think that, like, like my streak,

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Speaker 2: I'm not giving up my streak and to be in

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Speaker 2: I went to high school together.

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Speaker 3: I was in.

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Speaker 2: Ben's wedding when he got married, spent many nights playing

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's amazing.

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Speaker 5: And you know, Rob, you accompanied me to, you know,

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Speaker 6: We've had we had we had some good times.

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Speaker 3: There, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: And the other thing about Ben is, uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: We split with our buddies who was it, Eddie slow

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Speaker 3: But let's talk about the New York Metropolitans and just

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Speaker 2: You win the Soto Sweepstakes, you take them from the Yankees,

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Speaker 3: How agonizing was that last year?

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Speaker 6: Oh, it was very disheartening.

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Speaker 5: I mean, you know, the trade deadline, so many moves

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Speaker 6: But to lose out on the last day to the Marlins,

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Speaker 5: It was not a good culmination, you know, to what

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Speaker 3: I don't like Pete A. Lonzo going to Baltimore.

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Speaker 2: I must admit, I think it's hard to replace those

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Speaker 2: They're off to a decent start, I know, not that

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Speaker 6: I like the makeup of this team.

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Speaker 6: Forty years, my friend. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the Pocket Protector Centro the analytic numbers

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto,

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Speaker 2: Now let's welcome into the podcast, Rob Friedman. He has

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. How are you.

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Speaker 9: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 10: And that's what I try to do in the book, too,

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Speaker 9: Dominant he was. It was just mind blowing, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Our guest is Rob Friedman. He has a new book.

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Speaker 2: It's out.

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Speaker 3: It's called Unhittable. You need to pick it up. I

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Speaker 2: And I'm not going to go to cy Young. We

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Speaker 2: watched a guy, but.

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Speaker 3: George Thomas Sever.

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Speaker 2: Tom sever was another guy, just an incredible I mean,

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Speaker 2: three hundred wins.

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Speaker 3: You know how hard it is to win three hundred games.

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Speaker 2: And I remember he struck out nineteen Podways in a game,

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Speaker 2: and here was probably the best. As you talk about

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Speaker 2: pitching a complete game and trying to he struck out

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Speaker 2: the last ten batters of the game to get nineteen strikeouts.

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Speaker 10: So if you look at it, I start the book

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Speaker 10: off with a Tom Seaver quote for basically that reason,

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Speaker 10: like he is the epitome of what a pitcher is.

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Speaker 10: He viewed himself as that, He held himself out as

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Speaker 10: like almost like a pitching idol. He took care of himself.

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Speaker 10: One of the first guys in weight training. He might

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Speaker 10: have been better today too, because remember to drop and

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Speaker 10: drive kind of elevated heaters with curveballs and changeups and

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Speaker 10: sliders coming off that like, again, don't short change these

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Speaker 10: guys that might have been as dominant today's game as

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Speaker 10: they were back then. It's not like you know, back

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Speaker 10: in my day, these guys were really good.

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Speaker 9: And sever is a legend legendary pitcher.

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: His name is Rob Friedman. Man, you gotta pick it up,

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Speaker 2: Baseball Fan. Unhittable is out Amazon, I'm sure anywhere.

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Speaker 3: You can buy books, go pick it up. Good read. Hey, Rob,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much, man, appreciate your knowledge, and let's

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Speaker 3: enjoy the baseball.

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Speaker 9: Season absolutely and thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 1: It's time for a trip down memory lane. Here on

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Speaker 1: Inside the Parker. Ron Parker has covered major league baseball

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Speaker 1: for forty years.

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Speaker 11: Now, let's relive a memorable moment of his career.

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Speaker 12: On April eighth, in nineteen eighty six, I covered my

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Speaker 12: first major league baseball game. It was opening day in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 12: Forty years ago. I was just out of college and

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Speaker 12: working for the Wilkesbury Times Leader, a fifty thousand circulation

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Speaker 12: newspaper in Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 3: I normally covered high school.

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Speaker 12: I drove to Pittsburgh, got to the ballpark and tried

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Speaker 12: to figure it out how this was all going to work.

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Speaker 3: Somehow I figured it out, mostly.

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Speaker 12: On my own, covered the game, went down to the clubhouse,

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Speaker 12: got colts from my story, and I made my deadline.

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Speaker 12: Take a look, this is my first story and dateline Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 12: and there's my byline. You don't know how proud I

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Speaker 12: was when I saw it in the paper. The next day,

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Speaker 12: the Mets beat the Pirates four to two at three

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Speaker 12: Rivers Stadium in two hours and twenty four minutes.

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Speaker 3: Forty eight nine hundred and sixty two showed up on

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Speaker 3: opening day.

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Speaker 12: Dwight Gooden gave up two runs on six hits, pitched

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Speaker 12: all nine inning.

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Speaker 3: For complete game.

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Speaker 12: Darryl Strawberry, Keith her Nanderz, and George Foster all had

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Speaker 12: key hits.

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Speaker 3: When it was all over. For sure, I was hooked.

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Speaker 3: And even though I.

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Speaker 12: Was a high school writer at the paper covering track

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Speaker 12: and field, I knew I wanted to be a baseball

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Speaker 12: writer in my career.

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Speaker 3: Hey, this is Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Come back all season long every week as I chronicle

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Speaker 2: my forty years of covering.

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Speaker 3: Major League baseball, and.

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Speaker 12: If you missed any episodes, go to mlbbro dot com

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Speaker 12: and catch up.

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Speaker 1: In case you missed Rob Parker on the MLB networks,

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Speaker 1: here's his latest appearance on MLBNA.

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Speaker 11: All right, showdown time, Rob Parker a little earlier in

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Speaker 11: the week. We don't want to throw people off. It's

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Speaker 11: only Tuesday, Rob, great having you back.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, my friend, always great BK. Let's get at it.

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Speaker 11: I'm ready, Okay, challenge system. I'm looking at it. I

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Speaker 11: don't see a downside, do you? What are you looking

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Speaker 11: at here?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is a downside. I love human beings. I

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Speaker 2: want umpires to continue to work. I don't have an

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Speaker 2: issue with the human element. We're all human.

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Speaker 11: Were getting, Rob, We're getting plenty of human element. You get,

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Speaker 11: you get challenges. Sometimes a nump is missing five calls

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Speaker 11: a little more than you should. There's plenty of human

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Speaker 11: element now that it can be rectified. That's all. I

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Speaker 11: like this system.

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Speaker 3: I just don't want rather human beings.

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Speaker 2: It's okay, like you adjusted the umpire on a big

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Speaker 2: call or a situation that could be game changing and.

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Speaker 3: You want to challenge it.

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Speaker 2: I'm okay with that, but to change, but to just

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Speaker 2: say we don't need umpires anymore.

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Speaker 3: I just it just to me. I'm not ready for that, Beka.

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Speaker 11: I'll say this first of all, like how you can't

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Speaker 11: love this? It's mind boggling. But also I can see

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Speaker 11: I like what we're doing now. I can see in

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Speaker 11: a few years some people saying, hey, if this strike

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Speaker 11: zone is getting it correct, why don't we just go

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Speaker 11: to the strike zone automated, fully automated. I'm against that.

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Speaker 11: I like the strategy within.

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Speaker 3: The game, I do too. The other part I have

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Speaker 3: is an issue that I think it could if you're nicking.

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Speaker 2: There's a couple calls where it just nicks the box

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Speaker 2: on the outside, and that's a good call by a

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Speaker 2: player to let that go by. It's so close. I

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Speaker 2: don't think those are the ones that should be called strike.

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Speaker 2: If I'm a picture, why would I ever throw the

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Speaker 2: ball over the plate?

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Speaker 3: I would just go for the corners and try to nick.

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Speaker 11: That's all they do, is well. It just shows like

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Speaker 11: when you see a call overturned and it's just shading,

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Speaker 11: like there should be no shame to the umpire. It's like,

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Speaker 11: come on, it's so close, and a lot of them

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Speaker 11: are just like that close. But that's the game. Pictures

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Speaker 11: are dealing with the edges of the strike zone constantly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but I think this will make make it harder

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Speaker 2: for hitters.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't throw anything in that box. I just wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: I would just aim for up and in in a

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Speaker 2: corner and try to nick those and try to get

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Speaker 2: people out. I just don't want the game to be

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Speaker 2: altered where guys aren't throwing the ball over the plate.

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Speaker 11: A I think it's I think it's in balance already

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Speaker 11: because you only get the two challenges. You got to

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Speaker 11: keep them. There's a real strategy involved, and that hitters

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Speaker 11: can call them back. We've seen hitters already get get

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Speaker 11: a second chance. Aaron Judge got another guy change the

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Speaker 11: leverage of the count, hit a home run a couple

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Speaker 11: of pitches later. I think I don't think it's too

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Speaker 11: far in advance of in favor of the pitching. All Right,

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Speaker 11: Otani makes his first start tonight. We've seen the Dodgers

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Speaker 11: for a couple of days. I asked this to Alex

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Speaker 11: and Tom. Give me a win total for the Los

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Speaker 11: Angeles Dodgers this year. What do you have?

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Speaker 3: Let me see. I know most people think it's one

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Speaker 3: hundred and forty two and twenty. I'm not going to

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Speaker 3: go that high.

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Speaker 2: They won't pass the nineteen eighty six Mets that won

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Speaker 2: one hundred and eight games, including fifty on the road, which.

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Speaker 3: Is unbelievable season.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to say that Dodgers get one hundred wins,

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Speaker 2: not as dominant as people think.

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Speaker 11: Wow, see you say one hundred, right. Tom Verducci says

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Speaker 11: ninety nine, Alex says ninety four. I'm thinking one oh six.

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Speaker 11: I think they're better. I think they're I think they're

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Speaker 11: not even trying. They're gonna win that many games, and

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Speaker 11: they won't be They'll be trying, but they're not like

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Speaker 11: hitting the accelerator to win one oh six. I think

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Speaker 11: they'll do it just out of pure depth. And the

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Speaker 11: NL West is a little flat. Everybody's a little down,

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Speaker 11: Like the Giants, Padres, Rocky, Diamondbacks. They're all okay, but

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Speaker 11: they're all like just fringe wild card teams. I think

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Speaker 11: the Dodgers will win going away, but I think they

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Speaker 11: win a ton.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: The only problem is if they're winning, will have a

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Speaker 2: big lead. I think they do take their foot off

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Speaker 2: the gas and say what we want.

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Speaker 3: It's about the postseason. That's what this team is now.

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Speaker 11: They did it last year, yeah right, I.

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Speaker 2: Mean it was it was a struggle all year and

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Speaker 2: then finally they won and got the breaks and won

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Speaker 2: a World Series they had no business winning.

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Speaker 3: But that could happen again.

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Speaker 11: For the Dodge again. I call Maybe you didn't hear it.

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Speaker 11: It's probably best I called you a hater. I did

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Speaker 11: it with affection. Call you before we went to break here.

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Speaker 11: You're a big hate. You're a big hater. Yeah, I

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Speaker 11: mean when we went to break us at your hate.

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Speaker 11: But I was a hater last year on the Dodgers.

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Speaker 11: I was like all year long. Remember what I said,

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Speaker 11: I'm a tad disappointed. I'm a tad disappointed. I think

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Speaker 11: this year no disappointment. I think they're just too deep.

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Speaker 11: They're gonna throttle the competition. All right, So we're on

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Speaker 11: the record. I say one oh six and you say

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Speaker 11: one hundred.

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Speaker 3: I'm say one hundred even. Yeah, I think it's the

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Speaker 3: below that.

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Speaker 11: Okay, Yankees look good to you? Give me something on

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Speaker 11: the How good are they?

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Speaker 2: I just look at first of all, they're pitching, which

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Speaker 2: the Giants in the first game in Seattle. Obviously they've

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Speaker 2: only given up two runs in four games, which is ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: But the big thing is they won ninety four games.

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Speaker 2: Last year, and Garrett Cole's coming back like that, Like

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Speaker 2: that's like adding you know, fifteen or wins, I mean,

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Speaker 2: or something close to it.

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Speaker 3: I like the Yankees in the al least. I like

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Speaker 3: their pitching.

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Speaker 2: I know Toronto's off to a good start as well

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Speaker 2: at three and one, but I think the Yankees will

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Speaker 2: have enough pitching. They had that rough stretch last year

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Speaker 2: against the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 3: I think that's an anomaly.

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Speaker 2: The Blue Jays can be beat and the Yankees can

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Speaker 2: win the division.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't disagree with you. I think it's still

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Speaker 11: gonna be quite a fight. But I think they got

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Speaker 11: more baseball, that's our term. But I think getting Ryan

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Speaker 11: McMahon at third, Shishem going a second right. Caballero is

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Speaker 11: now a good part of this club. They re signed Bellinger.

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Speaker 11: They're not these you know, rusted out hulk of a

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Speaker 11: shell that they used to be big and muscular but

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Speaker 11: slow moving, and I think they're better than that this year.

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Speaker 3: And the other thing too, If you're a Yankee fan

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Speaker 3: and you're watching John carlostan eight hits in his first

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Speaker 3: four games, and it's not all just long balls. He's

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Speaker 3: knocking people in, getting singles and doubles. That's a great

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Speaker 3: start for him.

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Speaker 2: Remember this guy couldn't open up a bag of potato

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Speaker 2: chips at spring train.

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Speaker 11: Bobashett, meantime, you're a guy from Queens, grew up in Queens,

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Speaker 11: New York. I reject this. I also grew up in Queens.

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Speaker 11: The narrative is already set, and I rejected that. Bobbashet's

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Speaker 11: getting booed by Mets fans. There was a smattering of

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Speaker 11: disappointment when he kept not coming through. I don't know

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Speaker 11: what you expect, but I remember it's this still lingers

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Speaker 11: for Lindor. Oh, Mets fans bood Lindor his first year,

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Speaker 11: like once when he really came up short. It's this

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Speaker 11: whole thing about the Mets being rough on players. I

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Speaker 11: totally rejected. What about you.

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Speaker 3: I just think I've seen it.

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Speaker 2: I told you last year Wan Soto would get off

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Speaker 2: to a slow starting Queens.

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Speaker 3: It happened. You know, everybody made it. I was a

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Speaker 3: hater last year when I called him once one so

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Speaker 3: so to start the year. Yes, and he was.

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Speaker 2: So so so so so for a while, right he

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Speaker 2: was Bobashett could struggle in the beginning in Queens.

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Speaker 3: Was it Jason Bay the Mets sign from Boston who

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Speaker 3: got off to a terrible start in an.

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Speaker 11: There's a lot of Mets free agents and trade acquisitions

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Speaker 11: that fell flat year one. There's no question it's larger

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Speaker 11: than that. But it's not because the fans are so

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Speaker 11: met fans are these optimistic people. You've been there enough.

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Speaker 11: They're not. It's not like Yankees, Boston, Philly. That's different.

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Speaker 11: Those fans are different.

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Speaker 3: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: I just think Mets fans it's been a long time

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Speaker 2: no World Series since nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 3: They believe they have a good team.

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Speaker 2: You go sign a big guy who was great for

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Speaker 2: Toronto last year in the postseason, you won some results,

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Speaker 2: and it's just people.

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Speaker 3: They will warm up to him. Look at Lindor should

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Speaker 3: be the example for him. Lindor was hated. Oh my god,

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Speaker 3: they gave him too much money. They they can't play

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Speaker 3: in New York, he's in Cleveland. God true, they didn't

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Speaker 3: what did he do?

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Speaker 11: They didn't hate on him until he gave him a

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Speaker 11: thumbs down. That's like asking for it, like that's asking

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Speaker 11: for it. All right. When I rob what I say

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Speaker 11: you're a hater, I say it with affection.

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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate that, and I'll be all right. I'm

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Speaker 3: in the haters Hall of fame. I'll take it. You hate.

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Speaker 11: Who's hall of fame?

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Speaker 3: I said, I'm in the haters Hall of the.

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Speaker 11: First ballot pal Thank you, Rob.

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Speaker 13: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 13: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 13: next time.

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Speaker 3: Rob Parker out he can't get it. This could be

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Speaker 3: an inside of Parker.

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Speaker 1: See you next week, the same bat time, same Matt station,