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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 seventy six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: We have a great show for you today. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: be joined by mlbbro dot COM's managing editor, JR. Gamble.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about a lot of stuff. Also,

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Speaker 1: Jay Daniel has written a new book called Such Series

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Speaker 1: about the nineteen eighty two season with the Brewers and

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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Will do that, plus getting Rob and much more.

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

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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, Shoho Tani's agent

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Speaker 1: He's not interested in really signing a deal with the

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Speaker 1: the Padres offered Aaron Judge four hundred million dollars. Otani

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Speaker 1: He's gonna make you money. I remember when Adecki Matt

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Speaker 1: Oltani has the same kind of cloud. But I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: Juan Soto was offered four hundred and forty million dollars.

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Speaker 1: Now let's welcome into the podcast. He is the managing

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Speaker 1: Thanks Rob. Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB

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Speaker 1: is better than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't

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Speaker 1: even close. Reason number one thousand and fifty five why

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is better than the NBA. In the NFL,

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Speaker 1: all you need to do is talk to Matt Stram.

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Speaker 1: He's the Phillies' newest reliever. He signed a two year,

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Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars deal in December thirty one years old.

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Speaker 1: And guess what, He's a fan of baseball. Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine a major league player where actually is a fan

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Speaker 1: of the game and he does something that's pretty strange.

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Speaker 1: Whenever he gives up a home run, he collects the

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Speaker 1: card of the player who's homed against them. That's pretty amazing.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of fun. So he does that and

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Speaker 1: he gets them autographed. And so thirty nine players have

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Speaker 1: homer combined forty two times against Stram in his seven

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Speaker 1: year career. And there's some Hall of famers. They're two

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Speaker 1: potential Hall of famers, and Miguel Cabrera, Freddie Freeman, you

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Speaker 1: know people like that who have also homered against them.

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Speaker 1: So those are pretty special. And to get the more autograph.

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Speaker 1: So here's a guy who actually plays the game and

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Speaker 1: actually loves the whole baseball card thing and actually gets

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Speaker 1: players a sign and he makes a collection out of him.

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Speaker 1: I think that's pretty neat. Nobody's doing that in the

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Speaker 1: NFL or in the NBA. In the words of New

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Speaker 1: York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for

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Speaker 1: your time this time until next time. Rob Parker out,

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Speaker 1: he can't get it. This could be an inside the Parker.

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Speaker 1: See you next week game, same bad time, same batch.

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Speaker 1: Name