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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. We have a great show for

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Speaker 2: you today. We're gonna talk with former Major League outfielder

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Speaker 2: Cliff Floyd, who of course works for MLB Network.

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Speaker 3: Will break down some of the surprise teams in baseball.

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Speaker 3: Rob Beard tempfold from the Athletic. He covers the Pirates.

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Speaker 3: He'll stop by that plus foul affair.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better to lead off. It's getting robbed to 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, you.

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Speaker 2: Heard it here. The Yankees are the best last place team.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: Coming into Wednesday, they were in last place in the

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Speaker 3: American League East, but they have a record over five hundred.

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Speaker 3: Think about it, how many how many teams could be

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Speaker 3: in last place with over twenty wins with the five

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Speaker 3: hundred record, and let's be honest, the Yankees are only

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Speaker 3: gonna get better.

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Speaker 2: They've been had. They've had so many injuries.

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Speaker 3: They have Aaron Judge back g and Carlos Stans hurt.

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Speaker 2: They're waiting for him to come back. Their rotation was

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Speaker 2: devastated at the start of the season, missing a couple

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Speaker 2: of their starters who they're gonna count on. This team

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Speaker 2: will only get better.

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Speaker 3: Anybody who has the idea of counting out the Yankees

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Speaker 3: and the Al East. And I know the Tampa Bay

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Speaker 3: Razor off to a historic start. Everybody's trying to compare

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Speaker 3: them like the thirty five and five nineteen eighty four

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Speaker 2: I got it. Great start, But the Yankees are going

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Speaker 3: They've just been decimated by injuries and it's just a

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Speaker 3: matter of time before they get healthy and get on

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Speaker 3: the right track. Number two, let's do a New York

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Speaker 3: New York combo. Just talked about the Yankees. Now I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna talk about the Mets. And on Tuesday, Max Scherzer

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Speaker 3: was scratched. We already know Verlander's hurt to start the season.

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Speaker 3: Those two the two aces at the top of the

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Speaker 3: rotation making bookoo money right. I have only started eight

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Speaker 3: games this season. I mean eight games there's no way

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Speaker 3: they were thinking that those two would only start eight

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Speaker 3: games again, the Mets of Scottling. They've lost a number

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Speaker 3: of games of late. But don't poo poo or discount

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Speaker 3: that these guys will not bounce back, that they will

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Speaker 3: not be ready to go come later in the season.

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Speaker 3: This team without Verlander one one hundred games a year ago.

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Speaker 2: This is a good team. They're off to a bad start.

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Speaker 2: Once these guys get healthy and get going, going into

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Speaker 2: a three game series where you have Schurezer and Verlander pitching,

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Speaker 2: you're going to win a lot of series and pile

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Speaker 1: Do not kid yourself. Number three, don't.

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Speaker 2: Look now, but here come the Philadelphia Phillies. I know

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Speaker 2: they got a long way to go, but getting Bryce

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Speaker 2: batting three oh four for the season, and you know,

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Speaker 2: slowly but surely getting back, and you know how much

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Speaker 3: It was off to a slow start without people didn't

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Speaker 2: He rushed his way back. He's healthy and off to

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Speaker 2: you have Bryce Harper in the lineup. He is that dude.

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Speaker 2: I know people weren't sure he is that dude. He's

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Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 2: What's so good?

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Speaker 3: All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast former major

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Speaker 3: league left fielder Cliff Floyd, who is also, of course,

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Speaker 3: a analyst on MLB Network at over two hundred and

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the podcast, Cliff.

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Speaker 4: How are you good man? How you been man?

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Speaker 2: All is well?

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Speaker 3: Baseball season is underway, so much going on I want

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Speaker 3: to talk today. Let's start with you on a couple

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Speaker 4: Well. I think the biggest thing is I think these

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Speaker 4: rule changes have helped some of these teams up. You

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Speaker 4: know that when you when you have last year, you

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Speaker 4: good about the season. The fans started to come back

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Speaker 4: out to Baltimore. I did a few games last year

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Speaker 4: And I think these rule changes have helped these these

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Speaker 4: I've said this last year, well, while the Ale East

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Speaker 4: look at winning games. It's not possible to happen.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to another team in the NL Central, the

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Speaker 2: What do they have? I know they have some young pitching,

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Speaker 3: Players, but they are right there leading the division in

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Speaker 2: Is this real or is this fleat or Bologney man?

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Speaker 4: You know this is a tougher one. I believe Pittsburgh

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Speaker 4: So they got to get back to the drawing board

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Speaker 4: as supposed to worrying about what's going on. Just go

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Speaker 4: But you just can't, you know, worry about you know,

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Speaker 4: You gotta move forward and keep grinding away and hopefully

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Speaker 3: current MLB network analysts. Let's let's go to the Twins,

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Speaker 3: and the fans in Minneapolis aren't happy, Cliff, because they

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Speaker 3: wound up getting Carlos Correa back.

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Speaker 2: Remember he opted out.

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Speaker 3: He signed a contract with the Giants that fell through,

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Speaker 3: They pulled that back, so he wound up going back

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Speaker 2: What's happened? I mean, did the did the Giants and

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at it right now, they

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Speaker 4: just read an article this morning I was flying back

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Speaker 4: home about his off season regiment. I can't knock anybody regiment.

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Speaker 4: The only thing you can do is look at the

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Speaker 4: what he is now. Every year, Rob, You've seen it too.

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Speaker 4: Every year some superstar is going to struggle, right, I

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Speaker 4: just don't know who is gonna be. Every year, somebody's

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Speaker 4: at all. You know, every angle it's freaking cold. Okay, well,

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Speaker 4: They'll boot me right anybody, anybody you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: of I mean, you can't hit a buck eighty I know,

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Speaker 4: can you say it still early? Yes, but you have

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Speaker 4: not not sooner than later, like right now, figure it

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Speaker 4: And write this ship because if Kyl's career don't go,

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Speaker 4: I believe in Minnesota, Twins't won't be in first place

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Speaker 3: Let's go to a veteran picture who has turned back

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Speaker 3: the clock in Clayton Kershaw with the Dodgers. I mean,

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Speaker 3: he's thirty five. He seems I know he's been around forever.

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Speaker 3: But on Wednesday against Milwaukee, Uh, seven innings of one

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Speaker 2: That's a big boost to the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: They need a healthy and a good kurse Shaw, don't

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Speaker 3: His name is Cliff Floyd. Check him out on MLB Network.

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Speaker 3: One of the best in the game. Appreciate the knowledge.

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Speaker 1: Man, it's time for the Pocket Protector Centro. The analytic

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Speaker 3: Anthony Masterson is his name. BS Analytics is his game.

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Speaker 3: What do you got for me, Anthony.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge returned to the Yankees on Tuesday from injury

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

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Speaker 4: Love that money, Love that money.

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Speaker 7: Rob Brand new weekend of baseball, and the Rays and

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Speaker 7: The other game I'm gonna looking at is on FS

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Speaker 1: W When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by

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Speaker 3: All right, now, let's welcome in Rob beer Temple from

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Speaker 3: the Athletic. He covers the Pittsburgh Pirates, the surprising Pittsburgh Pirates,

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Speaker 3: and Rob, welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: How are you?

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Speaker 8: I'm doing well, but it's it's more like the slumping

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Speaker 8: Yeah, they did. I mean they You're right about the

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Speaker 2: Anything can happen, no doubt. They've made a couple of

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Speaker 8: come to him. He was arbitration eligible this year for

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Speaker 8: the first time. I thought they might come to him

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Speaker 8: But there were no talks. You know, they made him

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Speaker 8: a one year offer, they signed him for this season,

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Speaker 8: but there was no offer of a multi year deal.

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Speaker 8: I think it caught him off guard a little bit too.

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Speaker 8: I think he was kind of maybe not expecting, but

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Speaker 8: definitely hoping for a multi year offer. But given the

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Speaker 8: way that things have gone for him this season, I

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Speaker 8: mean just about every start he's made, it's been quality.

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Speaker 8: A couple of nights ago, you know, against against the Rockies,

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Speaker 8: he flat out shoved and one hundred and three pitches.

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Speaker 8: I believe it was complete game, you know, his first

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Speaker 8: complete game shutout in the majors.

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Speaker 2: What was that? Rob was that one hour and fifty

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Speaker 2: five minutes? It was yeah, man, who was pitching Randy Jones?

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Speaker 2: I mean what fifty five?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was crazy. It was barely dark whenever the

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Speaker 8: game ended, you know, Austin Austin Hedges was catching, he says,

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Speaker 8: at the end of the game, he goes up to

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Speaker 8: shake Kell in his hand. He's like dude, it's an

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Speaker 8: eight thirty unbelievable, fantastic So all right, so you know,

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Speaker 8: the kind of gave me like to see quick, efficient

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Speaker 8: and powerful on Teller's part.

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Speaker 3: Last thing, we're joined by Rob Beard Temple from The Athletic.

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Speaker 3: He covers the Pirates and the ovation that Andrew McCutcheon

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Speaker 3: gout coming back to Pittsburgh, the former nl MVP. And

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Speaker 3: I know how much people love that guy there, but

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Speaker 3: that ovation, Rob was one of the greatest I've seen.

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Speaker 3: I mean, that gave me goosebumps.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 8: The Pirates are you know, they may not have won

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Speaker 8: a lot of the recent years, but they're pretty good

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Speaker 8: at the heartwarming moments and bringing back Andrew. You know,

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Speaker 8: he still lives here in Pittsburgh's He's bounced around the

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Speaker 8: big leagues the past couple of years, really wanted to

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Speaker 8: come back here, and you know, the fans made it

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Speaker 8: clear from the IDEO that they were happy to have

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Speaker 8: him back. Every time he comes to the plate, people

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Speaker 8: you know, get up and take to their feet. In

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Speaker 8: the plot for him today against Denver against Colorado, he

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Speaker 8: another three hits, including a home run. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 8: it's just a feel good story and it's really you know,

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Speaker 8: if if this turns out to be kind of a

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Speaker 8: special season for the Pirates, we're gonna remember how it started,

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Speaker 8: really back in the winter when Andrew McCutcheon resigned with

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Speaker 8: with you know the club that brought him.

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Speaker 3: All right, his name is Rob Beard Temple from the

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Speaker 3: Athletic he covers the Pirates.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate all the knowledge. Thank you so much. Rob.

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Speaker 8: Hey, no problem, man, say time, take care now, bring

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Speaker 8: in the closer.

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

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Speaker 1: and it isn't even close.

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Speaker 2: Reason number five hundred and fifty nine why 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: And you know the NBA playoffs are rolling right, that's

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Speaker 2: where we are. But guess what all.

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Speaker 3: Their players are wearing baseball caps. Lebron had a Dodger

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Speaker 3: hat on, Devin Booker wearing Detroit Tiger stuff, kd even

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Speaker 3: wearing a baseball cap. Lebron even had one day a

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Speaker 3: Brooklyn Dodger cap with a Jackie Robinson jersey.

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Speaker 2: And you know what that is, right, It's real simple.

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Speaker 2: It's because.

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Speaker 3: The baseball cap is better than any other sports cap.

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Speaker 3: Nobody wears NBA caps and nobody wears NFL caps. But

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Speaker 3: the baseball cap with the city you know, representing where

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Speaker 3: you're from and the city people wear them all the

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Speaker 3: time you get on a plane, everybody has a hat

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Speaker 3: on with their city. They want people to know where

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Speaker 3: they're from, and the best way to do that is

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Speaker 3: with a baseball hat. It's unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: Even the NBA players wear it as swag. In the

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Speaker 2: words of New York TV legend the late 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 he can't Gavin. This could be an

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Speaker 2: inside of Parker.

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Speaker 8: See you next week, same bat time, same Matt's station.