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Speaker 1: Inside the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker, for your

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Speaker 1: special World Series edition. Coming up on the program, Rod Allen,

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Speaker 1: the former Major league outfielder and analysts. He'll join us

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Speaker 1: Listen headler. Good, all right, let's welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Rod Allen, of course, former major league er won a

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Speaker 1: World Series with the nineteen four Tigers. Rod, what a

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Speaker 1: World Series that was? How much did you enjoy it?

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Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it. I mean it was an outstanding

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Speaker 1: the world. It was an outstanding World Series. And I

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Speaker 1: guess right off the bat, it tells you a lot

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Speaker 1: about baseball. And you brought up the analytics and old school,

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Speaker 1: but it's the same thing if you were to go

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Speaker 1: on paper, the Astros are the better team when they

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Speaker 1: signed and when they got Grinky in the trade, everybody

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Speaker 1: basically said, oh, they're gonna win another World Series and

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Speaker 1: a team that won sixty home games and couldn't win

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Speaker 1: that's why you actually played the game. It's fascinating, But

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Speaker 1: you and I, I think we're on the same page.

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Speaker 1: About a month ago, when I spent some time with

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Speaker 1: whatever y'all call it, talked about and we talked about

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Speaker 1: the fact that just because they have Grinky and they

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Speaker 1: have Berlander and they also have Cold doesn't mean they're

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Speaker 1: gonna win the World Series. We saw Sherzer and bern

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Speaker 1: Lander and Price not win a World Series of the Tiger,

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Speaker 1: so it was no giving. But I just love the

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Speaker 1: way the Nationals came together with the you know, with

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Speaker 1: the song they had that they played. You know, as

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Speaker 1: far as that was concerned, how he getting big hit

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Speaker 1: and they had a lot, a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of little plots to it. Let's let's you just mentioned

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Speaker 1: the Tigers. Let's talk about that teen Tigers rotation? Or

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Speaker 1: was it all the guys who on that rotation wound

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Speaker 1: up winning a World Series? Elsewhere verla Under won one.

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Speaker 1: Uh you have Price won a World Series. You also

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Speaker 1: That's gotta hurt of you're a Detroit fan. Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure it kind of hurts, But I mean those those

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Speaker 1: They're they're rooting for those guys that have won the championships,

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Speaker 1: They were up three too and one big hit away

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Speaker 1: But clearly they have no reason to hang their heads.

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Speaker 1: And it also tells you about baseball that it gives

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Speaker 1: That's that's what they lived by day after day. Mike

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Speaker 1: your insight on the World Series. I still have goose bumps.

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Speaker 1: The biggest second guest in the World Series was, of course,

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