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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 the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker. What a show we have

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Speaker 1: for you today we'll talk with former Major league pitcher

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Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes. He drops by and talks to us about

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Speaker 1: some baseball stuff and about his son. Patrick Mahomes was

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Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. That's coming weekend with the Kansas

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Speaker 1: City Chiefe will do that getting robbed, that and much more.

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Speaker 1: Let's go up to lead off. It's getting robbed and

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Speaker 1: keep him on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest

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Speaker 1: stories in Major League Baseball, Number one pictures and cat

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Speaker 1: you his report to Florida and Arizona on Monday? Are

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Speaker 1: you kidding me? As Spring training begins in Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball with anticipation of the three Major League Baseball season,

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Speaker 1: and the team I'm most interested in watching is the

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Speaker 1: San Diego Padres, who are going to be the team

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Speaker 1: to beat in the NLS. I know, sorry Dodger fans,

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Speaker 1: but I do believe that. And the biggest storyline as

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Speaker 1: Arizona will be Fernando Tattis Jr. Who has twenty games

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Speaker 1: for performance enhancing substance last summer. But here's the good

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Speaker 1: news if you're a Padres fan. He can still be

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Speaker 1: seemed like his teammates have forgiven him. Uh. He was

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Speaker 1: course last year when they made that playoff run. But

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Speaker 1: Number two, good news for Boston Red Sox fans. Lefty

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