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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 seveny Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What

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Speaker 2: a great show we have for you today. We will

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Speaker 2: talk with former Major League pitcher Derek Lowe.

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Speaker 3: Remember having what a world series with the Red Sox

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Speaker 3: plus foul affair.

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Speaker 2: Give you a little loss of stat geek stuff and

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Speaker 2: have little betting tips as well. All of that coming

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Speaker 2: ahead on Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 3: So you know what you want to do, stick and

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Speaker 3: stay America.

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Speaker 1: Better to lead off it's getting.

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Speaker 4: Robbed and keep them out.

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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.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees continue to roll, and going into Thursday, they

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Speaker 2: has been spectacular, the Temyra under three going into Thursday.

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Speaker 3: But all the talking about.

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Speaker 2: The one two punch of one Soto and Aaron Judge

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Speaker 3: Both of these guys have been incredible. And speaking of.

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Speaker 2: That nineteen sixty one season was Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris.

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Speaker 2: it's been jan Soto. What a trade for the Yankees.

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Speaker 2: He fits in to Yankee Stadium, hitting home runs, hitting

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Speaker 2: it just continues. On Wednesday night he had five RBIs,

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Speaker 3: That's all coming in to Thursday's.

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Speaker 1: Action number two.

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Speaker 2: It hasn't happened in his major league career, but I

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Speaker 2: on the Dodgers. The Dodgers are like the Beatles this year.

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Speaker 2: They're selling out every other ballpark. People are into watching

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Speaker 2: I know Aaron Judges having an unbelievable year, Sodo, Rice.

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Speaker 3: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: Now let's welcome into the podcast former Major league pitcher

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Speaker 2: Derek Lowe. Of course, broken in nineteen ninety seven with

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Speaker 3: Mister Derek Lowe, Welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 4: How are you, hey, how are we doing? Thanks for

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely all good. And Derek, let's do this first.

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Speaker 2: So you're appearing on the podcast on behalf of the

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four American Century Championship, which will be airing

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Speaker 2: on the Golf Channel, Peacock and NBC July twelve to fourteenth.

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Speaker 3: Tell us about the golf and then we'll get into baseball.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Man, it's it's it's it's our masters. It's I'll be fortunate.

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Speaker 5: I think it's my eleventh or twelve year getting invited.

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Speaker 5: You know, there's top entertainers, top athletes, great events.

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Speaker 4: Every night, but just the competition, it's just so much fun.

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Speaker 5: It's you know, you've got the great venue at Lake Tahoe,

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Speaker 5: just a tremendous, tremendous honor to go out there and

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Speaker 2: I'm looking at the list here and my god, of

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Speaker 2: what a list that is. Who's the best golfer out

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Speaker 4: He's won a couple of times. You know, it's so

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Speaker 5: Like you said, I mean, you don't play in front

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Speaker 4: You know. Again, they have a tremendous, tremendous showing.

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Speaker 3: And I hope to contend this year and a little

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Speaker 3: prize money never hurt.

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Speaker 2: Seven hundred and fifty thousand in prize money, one hundred

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Speaker 3: You could We could all use that, couldn't we.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, they if you do play well, there is

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Speaker 2: All right, let's switch to some baseball something you know

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Speaker 2: very well. As I said, two time All Star Derek

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Speaker 3: You pitch for the Yankees in twenty twelve, you sure did.

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Speaker 2: The Mariners, Red Sox, Dodgers, Braves, Cleveland back then, the Indians,

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Speaker 4: You knew he would shine, and he is. But you

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Speaker 5: I mean, you you can't try to win six or

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Speaker 5: Baseball is unique this year because I think last time

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Speaker 3: He's turned on and I.

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Speaker 1: It was a big week in the big leagues. Who's

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Speaker 2: Following Wednesday's nine to nothing lost to the Boston Red Sox.

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Speaker 6: history with forty plus homers and seventy steals, the All

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Speaker 6: Star Break can't come soon enough for the Braves, who

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Speaker 6: need to regroup. They're five and six in their last

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Speaker 6: nine to nothing on Wednesday. Saving grace might be, however,

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Speaker 6: the pitching led by Chris Sale that's eighth in all

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Speaker 6: do it in the second half. The loss suspenses Strider, however,

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Speaker 6: right now without Acunya, they're just not built for World

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Speaker 6: Series success.

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Speaker 1: Turn money into more money. Now it's time for betting

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Speaker 1: on the basis with Dave Gascott. Love that money, Love

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Speaker 1: that money.

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Speaker 3: Rob.

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Speaker 8: What's up man? Another weekend of baseball. Happy to be

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Speaker 8: here with you. Lots of action on a front and

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Speaker 8: night as well. Dodgers and Yankees from the Bronx. I

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Speaker 8: think this is gonna be a fantastic matchup, gonna be

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Speaker 8: an Apple TV seven oh five Eastern, four oh five Pacific.

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Speaker 8: Give me the over in this one between the Dodgers

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Speaker 8: Giants take their act to Texas against the Rangers. Rangers

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Speaker 8: have been sub five hundred so far this season, so

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Speaker 8: the Giants. But I'll take Texas at home to get

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Speaker 8: things done here. Meanwhile, Cardinals and Rockies from Saint Louis.

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Speaker 8: Lanceln's on the bump for the home team two and

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Speaker 8: three record ERA at three twenty three. I'll take Saint

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Speaker 8: That'll do it for a Friday night. Rob, have yourself

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Speaker 8: a good weekend. We'll chat again.

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Speaker 1: Now bring in the closer. Right, Here's why MLB is

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Speaker 1: better than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.

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Speaker 3: Reason number one hundred and fifty five. While Major League

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Speaker 3: Baseball is.

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Speaker 2: Better than the NBA and better than the NFL, it

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Speaker 2: special moment that happened where Tiger's rookie Justin Henry Malloy

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Speaker 3: And guess what it was?

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Speaker 2: A major league It was a home run, but the

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Speaker 2: bigger part was that his parents were there. The twenty

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Speaker 2: They had their reaction of them so thrilled that their

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Speaker 2: first major league hit. The Tigers broadcast team caught it

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Speaker 2: and it went viral over the internet. Those are those moments,

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Speaker 2: you know, when you think about baseball and you're going

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Speaker 2: to play and your mom or dad said, get some

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Speaker 2: can remember those days leaving to go play ball or something,

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Speaker 2: they would always ask you, did you get any knocks?

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Speaker 3: Did you get a hit today?

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Speaker 2: You know, it was like that thing, and can you

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Speaker 2: imagine your first major league hit being a home run?

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Speaker 3: That's pretty special and your mom and dad were.

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Speaker 2: Able to see it because I think he started out

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Speaker 2: zero to eight in his major league career, but he

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Speaker 2: wound up getting the home run. In the words of

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Speaker 2: New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you

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Speaker 2: for your time this time until next time.

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Speaker 3: Rob Parker out.

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Speaker 1: He can't, Gavin. This could be an inside the Parker.

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Speaker 4: See you next week, same bat time, from same Matt's station.