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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 one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into Inside

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Speaker 1: the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker. Here you there.

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Speaker 1: We have a great show. We are talking playoffs wall

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Speaker 1: to wall. We'll get into that will preve you to

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Speaker 1: two big game fives. Also, we'll have foul Affair, that

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Speaker 1: and so much more coming up for you. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to lead off. It's getting robbed. To keep him on.

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

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one say it isn't so the Tampa

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Speaker 1: guy named Diego Castillo who started for them. They win

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Speaker 1: Game four, and they move on for a Game five

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Speaker 1: that will be played in Houston with the winner taken.

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Speaker 1: All the Rays look dead in the water after the

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Speaker 1: the Tropicana feel and they forced a fifth and deciding game.

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Speaker 1: Nobody would have imagined, especially when you thought of the

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Speaker 1: But there it is. So now there is a Game

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Speaker 1: if they're able to win Game number five. Number two.

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Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves and St. Louis Cardinals play Game five

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Speaker 1: now it's the young Atlanta Braves trying to knock off

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Atlanta Braves to win this

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Speaker 1: The Braves are three and five and have lost four

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Speaker 1: have another epic Game five, the Dodgers hosting the Nationals

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Speaker 1: at Dodgers Stadium, Winner takes All. Before this series started,

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Speaker 1: Steven Strasburg with a career zero points six four e

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Speaker 1: Washington at the Dodgers. It was a big week in

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Speaker 1: the Big League. Who's Who's? Is it foul or is

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Speaker 1: insider JR Gambo. The Twins won a hundred and one

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Speaker 1: heard me right, the Washington Nationals. Who would have thought

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Speaker 1: First of all, let's get the game four Dodgers were

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Speaker 1: He's gonna go out there. He's gonna throw upper nineties

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Speaker 1: His name is Tim Kates, Dodger pre game host A

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Speaker 1: Always people say it is all great. I'm not always

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Speaker 1: When you watch the next playoff game, watch the stands.

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Speaker 1: There's no empty seats. People on on the Ferriss wheel

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Speaker 1: Even when you're at home. You're not willing to get

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Speaker 1: this time of the year. That's why October baseball feels

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Speaker 1: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 1: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 1: next time. Rob Parker out he can't get it. This

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