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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, man oh Man,

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Speaker 2: as we get set for the postseason to begin in

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Speaker 2: Earnest on Tuesday. But Jade Hill, the young pitching phenom

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Speaker 2: for the Colorado Rockies, he joins us. Also Kyle Williams,

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Speaker 2: he's the baseball writer for the Chicago Sun Times. He'll

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Speaker 2: give us a deep dive into the White Sox and

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Speaker 2: what went wrong there. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better to lead off it's getting robbed and keep them on.

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Speaker 1: Rob's hot take and the three biggest stories in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one, It's.

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Speaker 2: An end of an era in Oakland on Thursday, the

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Speaker 2: final major league game in the fifty seven year history

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Speaker 2: of the Oakland Coliseum. It's going to be sold out.

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Speaker 2: They're expecting forty six thousand fans for the game between

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Speaker 2: the A's and the Texas Rangers a day game in

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Speaker 2: northern California, and it's sad. They expect over two hundred

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Speaker 2: police to be on hand. They're not expecting hoping there's

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Speaker 2: not going to be any violence, people trying to take

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Speaker 2: When they think of the city of Oakland, they think

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Speaker 2: of a major city in decline that has lost all

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Speaker 2: of its sports teams. The Oakland Raiders they move. They're

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Speaker 2: in the Bay Area and in Oakland. They moved to

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Speaker 2: get it. The age are sixty eight and ninety. They

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Speaker 2: have the lowest attendance in baseball, averaging less than eleven

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Speaker 2: that was the Golden ear in nineteen sixty eight to

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five. Reggie Jackson played there. The A's won

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Speaker 2: Fame player for the Oakland A's. Ricky Henderson and Dave

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Speaker 2: Stewart will both be throwing out the ceremonial first pitch

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Speaker 2: on Thursday. It's a sad day in Oakland. I get it.

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Speaker 2: Maybe Oakland without having a new stadium, just as in

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Speaker 2: The hurricane down in Florida has thrown a monkey wrench

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Speaker 2: into the baseball playoffs. It just has the Mets and

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Speaker 2: For Major League Baseball ESPN. Sunday Night Baseball finishes the

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Speaker 2: season the most watched in five years, So Sunday Night

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Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. According to the Nielsen ratings. That's up six

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Speaker 2: It's a big number. Those are the guys you're looking for,

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Speaker 2: Guys and girls eighteen to twenty four, high school college age,

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Speaker 3: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: Now let's welcome into the podcast. Jaden Hill from the

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Speaker 2: Colorado Rockies. Picture Jayden, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 3: Yes, their I appreciate you having me. Well, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I want to talk to you about your journey to

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Speaker 2: What it's been like in the big league so far.

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Speaker 3: It's been an amazing journey for me.

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Speaker 4: You know, spend some time in the minor leagues injured,

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Speaker 4: Me and all my friends, you know, we all gather up,

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Speaker 2: When did you know you had that kind of stuff?

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Speaker 4: If you ask my mom, she'd be like when I

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Speaker 4: But for me, you know, I always had that belief

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Speaker 2: Join us here on inside the Parker. You mentioned earlier

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Speaker 2: about injuries, and you did have in twenty nineteen, I

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Speaker 2: And still end up being drafted in the second round.

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Speaker 2: It's Kenneth Jaden Hill. Why just Jayden not Kenneth.

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Speaker 3: Kenneth is my dad name.

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Speaker 2: The San Diego Padres are rolling and have been the

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Speaker 2: Is it foul or fair to say that the Padres

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Speaker 5: Right now, they still have a chance. The Padres are

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Speaker 5: If they win all five of their remaining games, they'll

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Speaker 5: The time is now for San Diego. When Manny Michado

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Speaker 5: Choosing to go to what I call baseball obscurity after

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Speaker 1: Time for the pocket protector Centro. The analytic numbers you

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Speaker 6: The twenty twenty four season is nearly done, and here's

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Speaker 6: Not only did shohe O Tani become the first fifty

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Speaker 6: While the White Sox have already tied the sixty two

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Speaker 6: Jaron Duran is vying to become the first player to

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Speaker 6: Trek Scobel and Braves Chris Sale lead their respective leagues

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Speaker 8: you know search to find the next guy, they promote

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Speaker 8: Chris Guests from within because, as Jerry Reinsdorf said, he

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Speaker 8: wanted the he didn't want to bring somebody from the

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Speaker 8: outside because he wanted to get back to winning. Quicker Well,

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Speaker 8: that was their first mistake, you know, the white size

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Speaker 8: of os operating kind of this insular fashion, and so

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Speaker 8: doing that was just more of the same. You know,

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Speaker 8: you have this guy and Chris Getz, who had never

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Speaker 8: been a general manager, he was actually in the organization

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Speaker 8: as they fell from grace, you know, making the playoffs

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Speaker 8: and then going slowly by slowly decreasing and went total.

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Speaker 8: He was there for the entirety of this so it's

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Speaker 8: more of the same when you just hire him into

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Speaker 8: a general manager position. And so when that starts, it's

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Speaker 8: just it. It starts the process of what you're seeing today.

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Speaker 8: They go through the offseason, they want to get back

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Speaker 8: to playing defense, they want to get back to being

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Speaker 8: a stable organization. You know, paul Is Young had a

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Speaker 8: solid season, wasn't the defender they thought he was. And

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Speaker 8: then they just weren't good at the fundamentals too. They

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Speaker 8: were one of the worst defenses in baseball for a

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Speaker 8: large point of this season. And that falls on the manager.

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Speaker 8: That falls on the general manager for bringing in these players.

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Speaker 8: And you get off to a three and twenty two start,

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Speaker 8: that just sets the tone for the season. And when

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Speaker 8: you have that, the lack of fundamentals, a bad farm system,

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Speaker 8: and you have your rely you're trying to rely on

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Speaker 8: players also who have yet to show that they can

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Speaker 8: consistently stay healthy. It's just that's what that's where it starts.

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Speaker 8: It starts when Jerry Reinsdorp hired Chris gets in instead

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Speaker 8: of moving in a new Gentt and a new regime

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Speaker 8: and a new era of White Sox baseball. You just

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Speaker 8: continuing more of the same.

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Speaker 2: Our guest is Kyle Williams. He is a baseball writer

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Speaker 2: for the Chicago Sun Times. I can't imagine that back

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one, when Tim Anderson hit that walk

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Speaker 2: off home run in the cornfield to field the Dreams game,

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Speaker 2: that the White Sox would be here, Tim Anderson would

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Speaker 2: be out of baseball like that is just mind boggling

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Speaker 2: for those two things to be the same. Where the

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Speaker 2: Tigers are going to pass the nineteen sixty two Mets

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Speaker 2: for most losses, and Tim Anderson was a star, he

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Speaker 2: won a batting title in the American League is out

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Speaker 2: of the game. How surprised are you about by both

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Speaker 2: of those things?

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Speaker 8: I mean, Tim Anderson was supposed to be one of

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Speaker 8: those new shortstops to kind of lead baseball forward. You know,

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Speaker 8: he was an exciting player, led the league in batting gaverage.

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Speaker 8: I believe in twenty nineteen he was one of the

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Speaker 8: most exciting young players in the sport. And then to

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Speaker 8: like you mentioned, to see him not even be out

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Speaker 8: of to be.

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Speaker 7: Out of baseball so surprising.

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Speaker 8: This guy was a two time All Star just a

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Speaker 8: couple of years ago, and now he's out of the sport,

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Speaker 8: and just this whole team has kind of the sense

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Speaker 8: of you can't believe this happened in this fashion, this quickly.

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Speaker 8: Where you had the White Sox who owned by Jerry

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Speaker 8: Reinsof who's a baseball guy through and through probably to

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Speaker 8: a detriment, and everything that could go wrong with this

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Speaker 8: rebuild did go wrong. And it's you to challenge the

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Speaker 8: ninth Whenever you say the nineteen sixty two Mets, that

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Speaker 8: seems like a record that would be so out of

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Speaker 8: reach that.

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Speaker 7: You would see it in the modern era.

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Speaker 2: I totally agree. I just nineteen sixty two match.

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Speaker 3: We get it.

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Speaker 2: They were an expansion team. You know, everything went wrong.

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Speaker 2: Casey Stengel was the manager of the gait Yankee manager,

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Speaker 2: and you it's like like history like history, like that's

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Speaker 2: going to always be the worst team ever. And here

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Speaker 2: we are today with the White Sox four games left.

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Speaker 2: Kyle with uh, you know, the chance of them winning

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Speaker 2: all four just not good. They will have this record,

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Speaker 2: all right. His name is Kyle Williams, baseball writer for

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Speaker 2: the Chicago Sun Times. Kyle continue your great work and

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Speaker 2: I'll see you on the road, my friend. Thank you

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Speaker 2: so much.

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Speaker 7: No, thanks for having me. I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Great job, buddy. I'm gonna send you something in the mail.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: Okay, now I appreciate you, mister Parker. Thank you again.

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Speaker 2: Yep. Stay well, okay, bye bye, have.

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Speaker 7: A good one.

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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: Reason number nine hundred and fifty five. Our 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: We saw it on Tuesday night. Yes, a triple play.

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Speaker 2: Every time you go to a baseball game, you see

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Speaker 2: something you've never seen. I've been covering Major League Baseball

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Speaker 2: for almost forty years for zero and I've never seen

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Speaker 2: a ball game end on a triple play. But that's

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Speaker 2: what happened in the Padres game against the Dodgers in LA.

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Speaker 2: Take a listen to this exciting game ending.

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Speaker 8: Call nothing and one swinging away grand volto Machado.

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Speaker 1: He hits third.

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Speaker 5: That's one, goes to second in time what the first.

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Speaker 1: Hot triple play?

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Speaker 2: Hot triple play and the ballgame is over. The Padres

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Speaker 2: clinch of postseason birth on a five four three triple play.

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Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time, this time until

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Speaker 2: next time. Rob Parker out, he can't get it. This

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Speaker 2: could be an inside the Parker. See you next week,

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Speaker 2: same bedtime, same back station,