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Speaker 1: From the berkshears 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, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Rob Parker, and we have a very

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Speaker 3: special Baseball Hall of Fame BALLID edition of Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 3: I'll reveal my ballad for the twenty twenty five induction,

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Speaker 3: which will take place this summer at Cooperstown, New York.

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Speaker 2: And we'll also have why Baseball's Better. We'll do that

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better to lead off, it's getting robbed to keep them out,

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

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Speaker 3: As you guys know, I'm a Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 3: vot and I take my Hall of Fame vote very

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Speaker 3: very seriously. It's one of my most prized possessions in

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Speaker 3: my life. I don't have any kids, I'm divorced, so

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Speaker 3: it's all about the Baseball Hall of Fame and I'm

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Speaker 3: baseball players and fans who care. We talk about it

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Speaker 3: all the time. The Baseball Hall of Fame easily the

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Speaker 3: best hall of fame. People really care about who gets in,

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Speaker 3: Football Hall of Fame, the Basketball Hall of Fame, which isn't,

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Speaker 3: Those are finding their own right, but they're not on

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Speaker 3: the same level as baseball. So the Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 3: Fame is something that is cared about and revered, and

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Speaker 3: that's why I take my time and I'm very serious

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Speaker 2: But here we go.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna reveal my ballot, which will be announced on

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Speaker 3: Tuesday on MLB Network. It'll be announced who will be

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Speaker 3: going into the Baseball Hall of Fame. You have ten

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Speaker 3: use any You could use up to ten. This year,

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Speaker 3: I only picked two players number one each year, Row Suzuki,

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Speaker 3: the former Seattle Mariner, and CC Sabathia, who of course

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Speaker 2: So those are the only two people I voted for

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Speaker 3: And CC, and I'll explain why I thought these guys

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Speaker 3: There are magic numbers that you gotta have in order

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Speaker 2: He has three thousand hits, three thousand and eighty nine. Bingo.

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Speaker 3: I don't even need to look at the rest of

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Speaker 2: But let's just go over his stats.

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Speaker 3: Lifetime batting average of three to eleven, three thousand, eighty

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Speaker 3: He got in ninety two point six percent of the vote,

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Speaker 3: My second vote went to CC Sabathia, who broke in

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Speaker 3: Because he was one of the greatest pitchers who ever

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Speaker 3: He was also the American League Championship Series MVP in

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Speaker 3: Rob G. Rob Gera, the producer of Inside the Parker

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Speaker 3: and of course The Odd Couple on Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 3: seven to ten Monday through Friday with Kelvin Washington and

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Speaker 3: I Rob G. I know there's going to be some pushback.

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Speaker 3: Rob didn't use all of his votes, So let's go

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Speaker 5: Rob, to say you didn't use all your votes would

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Speaker 3: Now, you know, Rob G, how seriously I take balloting.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think everybody is a Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I for the most part, would agree with you.

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Speaker 5: And I think that's you know, we're talking baseball here,

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Speaker 6: It comes to the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 5: Man, but you know, for the purposes of this pod,

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Speaker 5: how this thing works, kind of builds and builds and builds,

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Speaker 6: So we're gonna start with number one.

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Speaker 5: Billy Wagner last year received seventy three point eight percent

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Speaker 3: I don't understand how he's gained all of this traction

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Speaker 3: Oh for left handed pictures, he has this, he has

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Speaker 3: that there aren't that many, and that doesn't mean that

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Speaker 3: he's close ten percent in twenty sixteen to getting in

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Speaker 6: All right, that's fair, all right. Name number two Rob.

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Speaker 5: Now, this one may or may not get over the

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Speaker 5: Andrew Jones last year sixty one point six percent of

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Speaker 5: and that is is, you know, Rob, He's one of

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Speaker 5: So the most years in baseball history amongst outfielders to

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Speaker 3: First, if he had the five hundred home runs and

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Speaker 3: have voted for him because that's the number that I

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Speaker 2: So he didn't get there.

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Speaker 3: His lifetime batting average is two fifty four.

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Speaker 2: That is not an all time great. Two fifty four.

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Speaker 3: Five All Star appearances. Okay, he won ten goal gloves

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Speaker 3: Why would Andrew Jones have only five All Star appearances

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Speaker 3: very good. He had a tremendous career. I just don't

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Speaker 3: When I say Hank, Aaron, Willie Mays, you know players

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Speaker 3: He deserves to be in the Brays Hall of Fame,

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Speaker 3: just not the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 5: All right, So rob last, but not least, the number

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Speaker 5: suggests he might actually threaten the seventy five, even more

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Speaker 5: and that is Carlos Beltran. Now you mentioned the difference

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Speaker 5: The case that's being made right now for Carlos Beltran

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Speaker 5: Rob Parker. You know how these things work. You know

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Speaker 5: that it's an analytics driven sport now, especially now more

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Speaker 5: you in your right mind leave Carlos Beltran off your

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Speaker 3: Carlos Beltran, Hall are very good, close, played a long

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Speaker 2: No major hardware. Where are the MVPs?

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Speaker 3: Where are those points of view where he was at

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Speaker 3: I'm not trying to diss him. He was big in

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Speaker 3: Do you remember he was the Mets manager and they

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Speaker 2: Forward with him.

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Speaker 3: And I know when people say, well, one was as

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Speaker 3: And that's another big scandal that I think you cannot ignore.

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Speaker 2: The lack of an MVP, the lack of UH.

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Speaker 3: we just talked about each year, Row who batted three

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Speaker 3: also was on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Get

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Speaker 3: ready for this.

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Speaker 2: Over one hundred times.

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Speaker 3: You're how funny you have to be to be on

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Speaker 3: Carson over one hundred times. As a former baseball player

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Speaker 3: who batted around two hundred, he was funny. Baseball will

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Speaker 3: not be the same without Bob Buker. Mister baseball, rest

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Speaker 3: in peace.

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Speaker 2: We enjoyed you. We really did.

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Speaker 3: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 3: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 3: next time, Rob Parker out d can't Gavin.

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Speaker 4: This could be an inside of Parker.

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