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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: 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 six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker. I'm back from vacation, ready

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Speaker 1: to go, and what a show we have for you.

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Speaker 1: Former All Star outfielder Darryl Strawberry joins us here on

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Also from Fox Sports and the Athletic, Ken

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal drops by. He'll give us some knowledge or major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball plus foul or fair. Let's go up to

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Speaker 1: lead off. It's getting robbed and keep him on. Rob's

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Speaker 1: hot take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Number one can cerny news coming out of Chicago with

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Speaker 1: White Sox manager Tony LaRussa who, after medical evaluations on

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Speaker 1: other results from evaluations. Bench coach Miguel Cairo will continue

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Speaker 1: to serve as the White Sox acting manager in his absence. Um,

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Speaker 1: you know, Tony Larus's seventy seven years old, and uh,

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Speaker 1: and maybe they'll still be able to rally around Tony LaRussa,

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Speaker 1: but of course, right now their hearts are going out

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Speaker 1: about Albert pool Holes, the future Hall of Famer who

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Speaker 1: And now the talk is whether he should stick around

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Speaker 1: Pool hosts just the fourth player to reach fifteen home

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Speaker 1: UH Pools has been highly productive UH coming into Wednesday's

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Speaker 1: Actually he's betting to eighty as one of the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: a good question. Number three. Aaron Judge hit his fifty

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Speaker 1: sixty four home runs on this season. What an incredible

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Speaker 1: And William Mays was a great player, you know, and

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Speaker 1: So that is a concern for me, and just the

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Speaker 1: But we're not even in September yet as we record this,

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Speaker 1: forget what they accomplished early on either, no doubt. All Right,

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Speaker 1: his name is Kevin Rosenthal, one of the best in

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Speaker 1: the business. Friend of mine. We appreciate you stopping bonding

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Speaker 1: on the podcast, my man continued successful, We'll see you

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Speaker 1: down the road. Thanks Roving, you too. Man. Now bringing

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Speaker 1: the closer. Here's why MLB is better than the NFL

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Speaker 1: and fifty five why baseball is better than the NFL

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Speaker 1: the next spring, and players from Major League Baseball will

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers shortstop Trade Turner agreed to take part. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna join teammates Mookie Betts and Will Smith. They will

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Speaker 1: USA looks strong. They will compete against the Dominican Republic, Japan, Korea,

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Speaker 1: But the point is uh uh it's an international thing.

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Speaker 1: Countries that play Major League, that play baseball at this

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Speaker 1: forward to that and forward to seeing major leagueers playing

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Speaker 1: for Team USA. In the words of New York TV

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Speaker 1: legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time

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Speaker 1: this time until next time. Rob Parker out he can't

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Speaker 1: get it. This could be an inside the Parker To

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Speaker 1: see you next week, same bad time, same Man station,

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Speaker 1: usual offer,