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Speaker 1: From the Berkes Shears to the sound from wherever you

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Speaker 1: live in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You

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Speaker 1: give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the

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Speaker 1: scoop on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame voter number eighty three, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker, and what a special addition

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Speaker 1: of Inside the Parker. We're still on location in Denver

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Speaker 1: and uh Man with a great home run derby and

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Speaker 1: a great dub All Star Game. We're gonna hear from

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Speaker 1: some of the big stars, Aaron Judge, Tim Anderson, Taiwan Walker,

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Speaker 1: go 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 League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: So I wrote a big column at dead spin dot

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Speaker 1: my All Star takeaway three things. Number One atmosphere is everything.

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Speaker 1: And what I was most impressed by was fans stayed

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Speaker 1: the All Star Game, which was the five to win

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Speaker 1: Oh Tani against Tattoos Jr. Everybody wanted to see that.

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Speaker 1: the All Star game to start. The game was one

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Speaker 1: But yes, baseball is very international. We see it play out.

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Speaker 1: You know, you know what you know? Uh supersedes people's culture,

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Speaker 1: stare Glad Guerrero Jr. His dad's a Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: What are do? He had a big home run another RBI.

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Speaker 1: And all that analytics asked the Yankees would need, didn'tnee

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