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Speaker 1: From the Burkes Shears to the sound from wherever you

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Speaker 1: live in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You

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Speaker 1: give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the

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Speaker 1: scoop on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of

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Speaker 1: Fame voter number one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into

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Speaker 1: the Inside the Parker Podcast. I'm Rob Parker, your host.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on the show, former major league manager Bo

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Speaker 1: Porter stops by. We'll talk about the surging Nationals, plus

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Speaker 1: will also talk to New York Post Baseball columnus Ken

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Speaker 1: David Off. With the big trade deadline approaching, that and

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Speaker 1: much more coming up, let's go up to lead off.

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Speaker 1: It's getting robbed and keep him on. Rob's hot take

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Speaker 1: on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number

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Speaker 1: one today is the trading deadline, and may your league

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Speaker 1: baseball the drop dead date this year July thirty one,

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Speaker 1: four pm Eastern. This is it. In years going by,

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Speaker 1: you were able to still uh add to your team

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Speaker 1: as you listen to this podcast, because teams have to

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Speaker 1: Washington Nationals. Bow, welcome to the podcast. Appreciate it well, Rob,

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Speaker 1: And who do you have now? As we uh start

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Speaker 1: I owned them, I wear them, I am proud of them.

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Speaker 1: So I have no choice but to stick with those picks.

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Speaker 1: And I think I could be doing far worse. To

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Speaker 1: be frank with you, I'm with you. I picked the

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Speaker 1: Phillies and the Yankees, and I'm the same way. I

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Speaker 1: a fine baseball columnist for the New York Post. Hey, Ken,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you so much. Thanks for joining the podcast.

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Speaker 1: You're the best rob. I follow you at the end

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Speaker 1: of the year. My man in the Closer. Here's why

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Speaker 1: MLB is better than the NFL or NBA, and it

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Speaker 1: isn't even close. Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. Is

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Speaker 1: the perfect person to tell you this week why baseball

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Speaker 1: is better than the NBA, better than the NFL any day,

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Speaker 1: any week. You know why. You don't have to have

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Speaker 1: an NFL player's body. You don't have to be have

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Speaker 1: if you're a kid, so you can aspire to be

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Speaker 1: a major League baseball player. Tell him junr Wise, baseball cool.

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Speaker 1: That's a very simple question because it's the best game,

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Speaker 1: you know, because it doesn't matter how big you are,

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Speaker 1: how small you are. What counts is right here. You

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Speaker 1: see all kinds of shapes and sizes everywhere you look,

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Speaker 1: but right here that's what means everything. In the words

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Speaker 1: of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking

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Speaker 1: you for your time, this time until next time. Rob

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

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Speaker 1: inside the Parker to see you next weekend, same bad time.

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