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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars 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 the

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Speaker 1: latest edition of the Inside the Parker Podcast. Rob Parker.

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Speaker 1: Here you there. Coming up on the program, we'll have

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Speaker 1: former Tiger manager Jim Leland. He'll join us plus USA Today,

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Speaker 1: baseball writer of Bob Nightingale, plus much much more. Welcome in.

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Speaker 1: Let's go up to lead off. It's getting robbed and

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Speaker 1: keep him on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest

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Speaker 1: stories in Major League Baseball. Number One. When the Seattle

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Speaker 1: Mariners got off to their hot start of thirteen and two,

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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. Don't forget what the off season was like. Paxton, Sagura,

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Speaker 1: everybody thought it was a rebuild. But somehow, some way,

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Speaker 1: the Mariners were often running After that, and the next

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Speaker 1: eighteen games they went five and thirteen, and as a Monday,

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Speaker 1: they were eight and forty one. That's right, they are

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Speaker 1: ten and twenty six and their last thirty six games

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Speaker 1: you smell at they stink. They are bologny. When you

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Speaker 1: got a team and take away all those players, you

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Speaker 1: can't maintain it. You can maybe have a good two

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Speaker 1: better with subtraction is better than addition. No, Seattle, you

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Speaker 1: you officially stink. Two, A couple of big free agents

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Speaker 1: with the young guys. And instead they made a conscious

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Speaker 1: and they said Kaiko as a guy was performed in

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Speaker 1: And the same thing with the Cubs. Everybody thought when

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Speaker 1: David Ortiz, Big Poppy, was shot in his home country

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Speaker 1: but the bottom line is we wish nothing but a

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Speaker 1: speedy recovery for David Ortiz. One of the shining lights

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Speaker 1: and makes baseball more fun. Here comes the big interview.

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Speaker 1: Listen Headler good, let's welcome to the podcast. Jim Leland,

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Speaker 1: welcome in. We appreciate it, no thanks, no doubt now, Jim.

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Speaker 1: We already know everybody thought with the steroid here over

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Speaker 1: update us on Big Poppy. Have you heard anything since

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Speaker 1: not sure he shouldn't be the first you know, they

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Speaker 1: the best all around the year. A streaky guy in

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Speaker 1: this you know what a cheap, easy trade. This was

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Speaker 1: for the for the Yankees. They give up nothing to

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Speaker 1: get get him, no doubt about it. Hey, Bob always,

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Speaker 1: thanks for your knowledge. He is Bob Nightingale from USA Today,

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Speaker 1: a friend and a great baseball writer. Bob, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining the podcast my pure Thanks me, Rob. Now bring

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

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Speaker 1: NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you, but there's nothing better in the world

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Speaker 1: than to sit out in the beautiful weather and it

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Speaker 1: I mean, who wants to go watch football in the

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Speaker 1: weather is warm. There's nothing like when the weather breaks

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Speaker 1: through and you finally get to go outside and spend

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Speaker 1: the summer at the ballpark. On a beautiful summer night,

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Speaker 1: I go to Dodger Stadium I love it. That's why

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Speaker 1: baseball is better than football and basketball. It's a ball.

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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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Speaker 1: could be an inside of Parker to see you next weekend,

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