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Speaker 1: From the berkshears 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 fifty seven, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Come on, I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost

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Speaker 2: forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,

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Speaker 2: in LA.

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Speaker 3: I love this game. Let's go. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 2: I'm your host with a very special Winter Meetings edition

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Speaker 2: of Inside the Parker. Yes, and coming up on the program,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk with John Morosi from MLB Network, who'll give

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Speaker 2: us some insight to the upcoming Winter meetings.

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Speaker 3: Also, Skylet Trupple has a.

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Speaker 2: New book with inspiring baseball stories for kids. He's one

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Speaker 2: of my former students at USC, A book that you

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Speaker 2: definitely want to pick up for the holiday season.

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Speaker 3: So we'll do that and much more. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 4: It's so good.

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Speaker 3: Now let's welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 2: John Morosi, of course from MLB Network, Fox Sports FS one,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, MLB Insider, and much much more and

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Speaker 2: a friend of mine, one of the best who covers

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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, John, Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 3: How are you, buddy, my friend?

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Speaker 5: That great to be with you as always, hope you

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Speaker 5: and your family are doing great. We can certainly at

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Speaker 5: some point break down the Lions' chances of still firing

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Speaker 5: their way into the playoffs. But the topic at hand

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Speaker 5: right now, of course, the great MLB offseason.

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Speaker 6: Love this time of year, no.

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Speaker 3: Doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the New York Metro politans who have

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Speaker 2: made moves we know, and we'll get to the Winter

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Speaker 2: meetings coming up in Orlando starting on Sunday Monday during

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Speaker 2: that time. But first, the Mets have made a couple

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Speaker 2: of moves. They traded from Marcus Simeon from the Texas Rangers,

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Speaker 2: and they all signs. Soul signed closer reliever Devin Williams,

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Speaker 2: who was pitched for the Yankees last year, to a

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Speaker 2: three year, reportedly fifty million dollar plus deal. Let's start

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Speaker 2: with the Simeon trade.

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Speaker 3: Your take on that, well, the.

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Speaker 5: Mets got a lot better defensively, rob and that was

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Speaker 5: a big focus for them. Certainly it likely pushes Jeff

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Speaker 5: McNeil into a trade scenario where they may move on

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Speaker 5: from him, But in general, the Mets realized they had

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Speaker 5: also by trading Brandon Nemo, who listen, has had some

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Speaker 5: great years in New York, but it allows them to

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Speaker 5: be a little more flexible with their outfield. They now

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Speaker 5: have the ability to potentially sign a Cody Bellinger away

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Speaker 5: interesting transaction for them just based on.

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Speaker 6: The rivalry, and already now signing Devin Williams too.

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Speaker 5: But I think this is what you get when you

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Speaker 5: have a very imaginative president of Baseball operations in David Stearns,

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Speaker 5: it takes to make the Mets the best team they

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Speaker 5: Brandon Nemo in that trade, so it was a really

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Speaker 5: interesting transaction from that perspective, and then he takes some

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Speaker 5: of the flexibility. You potentially add down the line someone

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Speaker 5: good start to the offseason for the Mets, but they

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Speaker 2: And they definitely got work to do because imagine winning

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Speaker 2: It was a bad reason for the Mets, as bad

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Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber, Bobashett, Alex Bregman.

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Speaker 5: I do, and I think that Bellinger is the most

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Speaker 6: I could see Alex Bragman making some sense there.

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Speaker 6: Plus semon So. Semion's got a lot.

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Speaker 6: So for me, Rob, I think that they have got

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Speaker 5: And whether it's Bregman Alonzo, I'm sure they would love

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Speaker 5: out Rob that Bellinger, Alonzo, Bregman all represented by Scott

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Speaker 2: John Morosi is his name, of course, MLB Network, Fox Sports,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports One, Fox Sports Radio Insider, and he'll be

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Speaker 2: a few days, four or five days. As we see

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Speaker 3: Or or just you know, Kyle Tucker's been talked about.

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Speaker 2: Also, I want to get into the Dodgers, who, of

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Speaker 6: Take a rounding a rounding number around.

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Speaker 3: There, Rob, Yes, exactly. Do we expect big stuff to be.

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Speaker 2: Coming from uh the Dodgers or they still do they

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Speaker 5: But I think in general, Rob the best, the best

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Speaker 6: Rob, keep up the great work, my friend.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, my man, Stay well, travel safe.

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this model.

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Speaker 9: Thank you so much for having me on, Rob. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: like these athletes, it's overcoming challenges I was. I was

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Speaker 9: Dream in my career.

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Speaker 4: And you know, once I've got you helping me out,

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Speaker 4: and I watched you growing up, Rob, It's like, Okay,

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Speaker 4: so no for sure, and so to see that it's

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Speaker 4: the last two are best sellers at the biggest bookstore

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Speaker 4: in Western Canada, so this one's looking that way too, uh,

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Speaker 4: you know, signing fifty copies and getting recognized when I

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Speaker 9: Really it's really really cool success, Scott. Thank you.

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Speaker 4: I took a risk on the dream and I'm happy

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Speaker 4: at paid off and I hope that can help them

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Speaker 4: fire others, just like the stories in this book, to

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Speaker 4: pursue their dreams, to go after what they want, to

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Speaker 4: never give up and believe in themselves.

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Speaker 9: And that's very much what this book is about as well.

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Speaker 2: Skylard Trumple is his name, and please tell everybody again

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Speaker 2: about your book, the name of your book where they.

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Speaker 3: Can get it. And I just wish you all the success.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thrilled that I'm able to even have this

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Speaker 2: to me, sounds like a great book for kids for Christmas,

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Speaker 2: And it's perfect.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you so much, Rob No, I mean, it's

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Speaker 4: an amazing platform to be on, I mean, with with

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Speaker 4: watching you and then getting to learn from you, so

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Speaker 4: it's really cool for me. The book is called Inspiring

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Speaker 4: Stories of Baseball Grades. It's the third book in the

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Speaker 4: From Challenge to Champion series, so you can get from

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Speaker 4: Challenge to Champion. You can get inspiring stories of football

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Speaker 4: grades the second one, and they all have great deals

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Speaker 4: on Amazon dot Com right now. You can get them

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Speaker 4: wherever you buy books any bookstore. Aspiring stories of baseball great. Specifically,

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Speaker 4: it has twelve stories in it. As I was mentioning,

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Speaker 4: Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Jim Abbott, Hank Aaron

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Speaker 4: in there as well. You also have Mookie Betts, Derek Jeter,

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Speaker 4: twenty sixteen Chicago Cubs are in there too as a team.

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Speaker 4: That's a great story as well, Aaron Judge, Shoheo Tani.

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Speaker 4: So you have tons of baseball history in there, and

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Speaker 4: I promise no matter what age you are, I've gotten

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Speaker 4: reviews from people in their eighties two. This book will

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Speaker 4: make you feel like you can run through a brick wall,

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Speaker 4: as will all of the books. I loved inspiring sports

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Speaker 4: stories as a kid, and there's so many great stories

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Speaker 4: in there. And I hope everyone gets a chance to

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Speaker 4: buy it and read it because I know that it's

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Speaker 4: had such a positive impact on people so far, and

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Speaker 4: I think that's one of the best things you can

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Speaker 4: do as a journalist as an author is to have

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Speaker 4: that impact.

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Speaker 9: You can follow me.

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Speaker 4: At scatter Trepple on most social platforms. My work with

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Speaker 4: People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. I'm working hard, inspired by

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Speaker 4: this man, Rob Parker and all the wonderful people in

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Speaker 4: my life to continue doing that, so you can find

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Speaker 4: me everywhere Tyler Man.

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Speaker 3: Awesome, awesome.

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Speaker 2: In fact, have a great nephew, Carter, in New York

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Speaker 2: and he's fourteen years old.

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Speaker 11: And I'm going to get him a copy of the

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Speaker 11: book Ah today man and send it to Rob. Come

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Speaker 11: to be inspired, and the book just sounds great to

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Speaker 11: be able to read it the whole thing, of course,

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Speaker 11: you know, I've read some excerpts and I need to

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Speaker 11: read the entire book, my man. Congratulations, Mazel continued success

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Speaker 11: and we appreciate you joining us here on Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 9: My pleasure, Rob, thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, Thanking you for your time this time.

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Speaker 3: Until next time. Rob Parker out he.

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Speaker 1: Can't get it.

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Speaker 3: This could be an Inside of Parker.

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Speaker 6: See you next week, same bat time from Saint Bat

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Speaker 6: Station