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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 seven, Rob Parker.

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

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Speaker 2: we have a very special postseason edition of Inside the

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Speaker 2: Parker coming up. We'll talk with Ryan Berschinger. He's one

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Speaker 2: of the hosts of Dodgers' Own podcast, all about the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers. Also, we'll talk about the Yankees. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about that Yankees Royal series. We'll talk about John

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Speaker 1: Let's go better 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, we have two.

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Speaker 2: Winners take all postseason games to be able to get

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Speaker 2: into the LCS. On Friday, it's the Dodgers and the

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Speaker 2: Padres at Dodger Stadium. Series tied up two to two,

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Speaker 2: game five, big game, a lot on the line. Of course,

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers spent over a billion dollars in the offseason

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Speaker 2: to get Yamamoto and to get Oltani, and of course

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Speaker 2: here it is Yamamoto pitching the most important game of

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers season against the Padres, who I believe was

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Speaker 2: better than the Dodgers. I thought was shocked that they

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Speaker 2: lost eight nothing in Game four at home, A whitewashed.

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Speaker 2: The bullpen shut them out with that lineup and that

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Speaker 2: ballpark A shocker. So the Dodgers stay alive, and this

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Speaker 2: will be an interesting game. A lot is on the

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Speaker 2: line because the Dodgers spent a lot of money. Everybody

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Speaker 2: expected the Dodgers to get to the World Series, and

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Speaker 2: I get it. You know, they've had injuries. And the

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Speaker 2: one thing I don't like is when people talk about

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Speaker 2: injuries as if other teams haven't had injuries as well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Padres lost Joe Muskgrave in this series.

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Speaker 2: He's one of their best pitchers, right he's not pitching.

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers have had injuries as well, classed, and I

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Speaker 2: was not pitching, and Kershaw was left off the playoff roster.

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Speaker 2: I get all that other stuff. And some other guys

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Speaker 2: who've been injured Bobby Miller, so I understand it. But

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Speaker 2: despite all the injuries the Dodgers have had, they had

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Speaker 2: any other team. So you can't use that once you

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Speaker 2: how they're gonna win, or they can't win or whatever.

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Speaker 2: The series is tied to to there at home. If

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Speaker 2: they lose Game five and the Padres advance, it will

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Speaker 2: be a total failure for the Dodgers. They won eleven

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Speaker 2: of twelve NL West crowns. They only have the one

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Speaker 2: championship since nineteen eighty eight, and that came in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty in the Bubble, basically the shortened season the World

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Speaker 2: Series played in Alington, Texas. This team is supposed to

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Speaker 2: at least get to the World Series and it will

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Speaker 2: be a total disaster if it doesn't happen. And I

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Speaker 2: don't know. I still think the Padres have a great

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Speaker 2: shot to win that game, and maybe the Dodgers shot

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Speaker 2: all their bullets and that eight nothing winning Game four,

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Speaker 2: so long, this is going to be interesting. America will

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Speaker 2: be watching a Friday night till winner take all, Padres

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Speaker 2: or a team with a lot of juice, and of

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Speaker 2: course the Dodgers have so much history and whatnot. This

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Speaker 2: Before the season started, I picked the New York Yankees

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Speaker 2: And here we are. The Yankees are punched their ticket.

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Speaker 2: On Thursday night, they beat the Kansas City Royals three

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Speaker 2: He wins a big game. The Yankees aren't playing around.

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Speaker 2: They didn't give the Royals life. They went to Kansas City,

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Speaker 2: the Royals were almost completely shut down. It was incredible.

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Speaker 2: two thousand and nine. It's been a long time. This

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Speaker 2: for Game five, on Saturday. The winner of that series,

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Speaker 4: Oh, Rob, always good, always good man.

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Speaker 2: I know you're on pins and needles. The Big Game

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Speaker 2: Friday Night Dodgers Stadium, Game five winner takes all Dodgers

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Speaker 4: You know, I feel better today than I did going

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Speaker 2: you get your podcasts and Mookie Bets you mentioned them briefly,

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Speaker 2: But Mookie Betts was in a terrible slump. I think

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Speaker 2: Obviously he was robbed of a home run by Profier

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, And Mookie has been very clear that he's

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Speaker 4: So he's responded incredibly well. This is who Mooki Betts is.

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Speaker 2: As big as Old Tany is and he is, there's

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Speaker 4: As far as a jumpstarter, absolutely, it's of course. Otani

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Speaker 2: Last, but not least, the elephant in the room. If

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Speaker 2: It's it's a disaster. The seasons a disaster. There's no

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Speaker 4: of course a gigantic failure. As you mentioned, Yes, bring

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Speaker 2: All right. His name is Ryan Berschinger and he is

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Speaker 2: it out or wherever you get your podcast. Ryan, Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much. Man. Game five winner Take All. Can't

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Thanks Rob, Now bring in the closer.

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Speaker 1: Here's why MLB is better than the NFL or NBA,

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Speaker 1: and it is even close.

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Speaker 2: Reason number five hundred and fifty five where Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL,

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Speaker 2: it's because of Friday's pitching matchup. Darvish and Yamamoto will

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

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Speaker 2: your time this time until next time. Rob Parker out

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Speaker 2: he can't get it. This could be an inside the part.

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Speaker 2: See you next week.

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