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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 seventy, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome into the program. I'm your host, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: What a great playoff edition of Inside the Parker we

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Speaker 2: have for you. Coming up, we're gonna talk with former

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Speaker 2: World Series champ left fielder Cliff Floyd, who now works

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Speaker 2: for MLB Network. He'll jump in and come by. Also,

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Speaker 2: we'll talk to maleak right from mlbroad dot Com. He's

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Speaker 2: around the Texas Rangers a lot. And the World Series

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Speaker 2: is set. Let's go better.

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Speaker 1: Up to lead off, it's getting.

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Speaker 2: 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 number one before we get to the.

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Speaker 2: World Series, and we will talk about the matchup. I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: we gotta start with the Phillies and what I call

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Speaker 2: a choke job. A lot of people don't want to

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Speaker 2: use that word. How they good, they didn't choke Nobody

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Speaker 2: expected them to go this far and all this poppy

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Speaker 2: cock Boulder dash nonsense. When they won Game two ten nothing,

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Speaker 2: people are like, I'm not watching this series. The Diamondbacks

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Speaker 2: have nothing for the Phillies. They don't match up with them.

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Speaker 2: Then don't forget. They blew Game five where they had

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Speaker 2: all these great players, Trey Turner, Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber,

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Speaker 2: no shows. Come on, if you would have told me

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Speaker 2: that the Phillies would be up three to two and

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Speaker 2: two games, I'm not buying it. This is different from

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Speaker 2: the Astros who had trouble all year at home, had

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Speaker 2: in the NLCS, and I'm not giving them a pass.

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Speaker 1: The Phillies choked number two.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what anybody says. I'm convinced. If I'm

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Speaker 2: or eight years, and call it a day, rather than

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Speaker 2: having a team that's just relevant. I hear that all

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Speaker 2: I'd rather my team go to the championship and have

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Speaker 2: The Texas Rangers had a new ballpark. They spend a

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Speaker 2: half a billion dollars on two up the middle players right,

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Speaker 2: They made a trade for Max Schurzer. They took on

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Speaker 2: more payroll. They wanted to win. This might not be sustainable.

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Speaker 2: They might not make the playoffs next year. Who cares.

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Speaker 2: If you're a Ranger fan, you gotta feel great. Your

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Speaker 2: team said they want to win. I got a stat

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Speaker 2: for you. You ready for this? The Rangers, who are just

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Speaker 2: they would do nothing franchise. And they've been to the

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Speaker 2: it's all about the Cowboys. The Rangers are third class

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Speaker 2: I love what they did. They open up their purses

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Speaker 2: All right, here we go World Series. I will be

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Speaker 2: Games one and two. And I mean these two teams,

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Speaker 2: They're masters. They got good starting pitching. I mean, Montgomery

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Speaker 2: They get it done, and they do the improbable, which

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Speaker 1: So here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 2: It's so good. Now let's welcome into the podcast. Cliff Floyd,

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Speaker 2: of course, played seventeen years in the major leagues, one

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Speaker 2: How you feeling doing great? Are you baseball in October?

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Speaker 2: Always great? We're ready for a World Series before we

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Speaker 2: get there, Cliff, I've said that the Phillies choked. I

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Speaker 2: can't believe that they didn't make it in. They blow

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Speaker 2: Game five, right, they had a chance to win that game,

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Speaker 3: Well, what happened is you run into a bus are

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Speaker 3: Rob and say, well, you know, the d Backs they.

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Speaker 4: Gotta play they style. They got to play their style

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Speaker 3: And then when and then when the d bats got hot,

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Speaker 4: You gave them an inch and they took a mile

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Speaker 3: You had you had, you had Cobrin Carroll with two

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Speaker 4: When when when? When when the first team?

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Speaker 2: When? When?

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Speaker 3: When you score first? The team that scores first is

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Carol, who you mentioned. What an unbelievable

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Speaker 4: Well, we saw in game five he made that mistake.

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Speaker 3: We talked about sack fly off Jose Alvaradom throwing one

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Speaker 2: Know people how big that is. You know, like people think, oh,

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Speaker 3: Look, I will not say dynasty, you know, I refuse

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Speaker 2: What makes Bruce Bochie so special? You know what?

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Speaker 3: He just puts all these guys in a familiar situation.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. I'm with you. I'm going with the Rangers.

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Speaker 4: They better figure it out Ron for real.

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Speaker 3: And you know what last thing I'll say is, can

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Speaker 4: I can fix that.

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Speaker 1: Got the right guys in counts.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. All right. His name is Cliff Floyd. Check

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Speaker 2: him out on MLB Network. Of course, they'll have wall

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Speaker 4: Thanks, Cliff, I'll see you that big dog.

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

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Speaker 2: All right, now, let's welcome in Maleak Right. He's a

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Speaker 2: game and Malik. Welcome to the podcast. How are you, man, Rob,

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Speaker 2: I'm blessed.

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Speaker 5: I'm thankful that we're still playing baseball and it's almost

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Speaker 2: Man, how are you doing great? I know, I mean

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Speaker 5: Man, if Max Scherzer can be a shell of himself,

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Speaker 2: Our guess is Malik right. He's a senior content reporter

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is why he signed that big contract

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Speaker 2: many games? And who will be the World Series MVP.

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna say Rangers in six and I have adult

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Speaker 5: I think adultas Garcia steps up again and is the

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Speaker 5: MVP if not Corey Seeger and I have tremendous respect

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Speaker 5: to the Arizona Diamondbacks. I think this is gonna be

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Speaker 5: a great series. We have like almost ten total All Stars.

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Speaker 5: You have Hall of Famers Evan Longorio on the other side,

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Speaker 5: Jeff Bannister, former Ranger, which is on the other side,

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Speaker 5: and that the Diamondbacks are scared of Nobody Corbyn, Carroll,

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Speaker 5: Alec Thomas. These guys have been playing minor league championships

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Speaker 5: forever and they just turned that little stage into the

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Speaker 5: big stage. Fearless group. I love what I see out.

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Speaker 5: I can tell Marte as well, not getting to watch

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Speaker 5: him every day like I do Simeon and getting to

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Speaker 5: see how he's producing the playoffs. Man, that guy, he

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Speaker 5: deserves his flowers.

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Speaker 4: Is one of the best second basement in the league.

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Speaker 5: But I think at some point the Rangers offense is

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Speaker 5: just gonna overwhelm the Diamondbacks pitching, which they need to

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Speaker 5: get too early because the Diamondbacks have a shut down bullpen.

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Speaker 5: But I think that Rangers' offense carries them. They get

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Speaker 5: the good start from Montgomery and Uvaldi, and also Max

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Speaker 5: Scherder throws a gym. So hopefully I can watch the

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Speaker 5: team clitch in Arlington next Friday.

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Speaker 2: And here it is. I'm gonna go off the beaten path.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that they don't pitch the Garcidia because

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Speaker 2: he's so hot, they don't give him a lot to hit.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna pick Marcus Simeon to bounce back and

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Speaker 2: win the World Series MVP, getting this table set it

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Speaker 2: set and getting big hits to start game. So I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna go with Marcus Simeon as the World Series MVP.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. His name is Malik Wright. Check

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Speaker 2: out his content and his stuff at mlbbro dot com.

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

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

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Speaker 2: Why baseball is better than the NBA and NFL. Reason

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Speaker 2: number one hundred and fifty five is pretty simple. The

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Speaker 2: Arizona Diamondbacks for real. Yes, they're in the World Series.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can call it a fluke whatever you want,

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Speaker 2: but it happens more so than in other sports. The

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Speaker 2: Orlando Magic just can't make the NBA finals out of nowhere.

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Speaker 2: Those teams doesn't happen. Give me, give me exact out

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Speaker 2: of nowhere, very seldom. The Arizona Diamondbacks were on nobody's radar,

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Speaker 2: no zero. Not to get there in the NFL is

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Speaker 2: the same. We talk about so many teams that still

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Speaker 2: have never even been to a Super Bowl, and yet

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Speaker 2: Arizona came out of virtually nowhere. The people of Phoenix

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Speaker 2: and the surrounding areas. They were excited, they're thrilled. They

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Speaker 2: cannot believe what this season turned into. Started off, grade,

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Speaker 2: cooled off, looked like they weren't going to do anything,

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Speaker 2: that it was just a false alarm. Put it all together,

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Speaker 2: and here they are. What a chance to win four

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Speaker 2: games away from winning a World Series championship. You don't

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Speaker 2: see that really in the NBA and NFL nearly as

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Speaker 2: much as you do when you talk about Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball and teams coming out of nowhere and winning, and

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Speaker 2: the Arizona Diamondbacks are definitely one of those teams. In

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Speaker 2: the words of New York TV legend the Lady Bill Jorgensen,

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

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Speaker 2: Rob Parker out d can't Gavin.

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside of Parker. See you next week,

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Speaker 1: same bat time, same batt station,