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Speaker 1: From the Burkeshars 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 fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: You have another hot take, will not not make the playoffs? Show?

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Speaker 3: Hey me the money, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 4: Come on, I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost

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Speaker 4: forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati.

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Speaker 3: In Detroit, in LA. I love this game. Let's go.

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Speaker 4: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker, and

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Speaker 4: what a show we have for you today. Coming up,

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Speaker 4: we're gonna talk with Atlanta Bury center fielder Michael Harris

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Speaker 4: the second also Cincinnati Reds beat writer for the Cincinnati Enquirer,

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Speaker 4: Gordon Wittenmeyer.

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Speaker 5: He drops by plus foul or fair? Let's go better.

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Speaker 1: Up to lead off. It's getting rocked to keep them

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Speaker 1: und Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. Number one, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, are they gonna go one sixty two

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Speaker 4: to Oh they're off to an eight no start, had

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Speaker 4: no business winning Wednesday Night, down five, nothing early and somehow,

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Speaker 4: some way they win it. Of course, show Hal Toddy

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Speaker 4: with the walk off home run in the ninth to

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Speaker 4: stun the Atlanta Braves. It's the Dodgers' best start since

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Speaker 4: nineteen fifty five.

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Speaker 5: Double Nichols has been a long time. And here's the

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Speaker 5: other part.

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Speaker 4: No defending World Series champions ever started the next season

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Speaker 4: eight to no.

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Speaker 5: So again the Dodgers off.

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Speaker 4: Everything's clicking, and this is amazing when you think where

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Speaker 4: uh Wookie Betts was and the big home runs he's

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Speaker 4: come up with since not feeling well in Japan and

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Speaker 4: not playing, and he's been big show hey, a big

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Speaker 4: night Wednesday Night, batting over three hundred and now three

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Speaker 4: thirty three, three home.

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Speaker 5: Runs all solo. So there's a lot of stuff to

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Speaker 4: Obviously, the Dodgers are not going to be judged on wins.

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Speaker 4: We saw the Seattle Mariners win one hundred and sixteen

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Speaker 4: games in a regular season and come up without a

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Speaker 4: World Series.

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Speaker 2: This will be about a World.

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Speaker 5: Series for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: Anybody who tells you that it's not so is not

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Speaker 4: being honest with you, especially since no team has won

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Speaker 4: back to back World series since the Yankees did it

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Speaker 4: in two thousand and no one in the National League

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Speaker 4: has done it win back to back fall classics since

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Speaker 4: the nineteen seventy five seventy six Reds.

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Speaker 5: So so far, so good for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: They are as averts eight and oh going into Thursday

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Speaker 4: night's action.

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Speaker 3: Number two.

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Speaker 4: Enough already with the torpedo bats. Can we stop this?

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Speaker 4: First of all, they've been around for a while. Number two,

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Speaker 4: they make don't make you a home run hitter. Whoever's

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Speaker 4: pedaling knows that bill of goods is not doing you

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Speaker 4: as doing you a disservice and telling you that information.

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Speaker 4: And we saw Elie de la Cruz have the big

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Speaker 4: that he used the torpedo bat, and then, of course

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Speaker 4: the Reds lost the next two nights, won nothing, and he.

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Speaker 5: Didn't do anything with it.

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Speaker 4: And even the Milwaukee Brewers who were belly aching about

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Speaker 4: the Yankees, I get it. They hit nine home runs,

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Speaker 5: But let's be honest. They're called the Bronx Bombers for

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Speaker 4: The Yankees have always hit home runs and everybody wasn't

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Speaker 4: and is not going to change what he's been doing.

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Speaker 4: Here's the other thing. Major League Baseball has already put

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Speaker 5: How about that number three?

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Speaker 4: Don't give the Los Angeles Dodgers the NL West crown

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Speaker 4: just yet. At least that's what the San Diego Padres

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Speaker 5: It'll be good for baseball.

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Speaker 4: We don't want the Dodgers to not have a foe,

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Speaker 4: You don't want divisions to be where teams are just

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Speaker 4: That doesn't happen very often coming into Thursday, So.

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Speaker 6: It's so good.

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Speaker 7: All right, now, let's welcome in Michael Harris, the second

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Speaker 7: centerfielder for the Atlanta Braids.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for joining the podcast. Oh yeah, no problem, Mike.

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Speaker 7: Baseball as we know, is a marathon out as frit

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Speaker 7: You guys lose your first six games, what's the mindset

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Speaker 6: We'll get buried this early in the season.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's only been six games so far, and we

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Speaker 7: Play team like Uh, the Braves have had a lot

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we're we're excited to get some of those guys

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Speaker 7: How are you feeling up off the box just not

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Speaker 6: For most of it, I feel pretty pretty normal. Uh.

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Speaker 8: Like I said, they were facing pretty tough pitching rightffs

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Speaker 8: So it's really just I guess it's stressing what you

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Speaker 7: The National League has a lot of good teams. But

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Speaker 7: I think you guys are still stack up the match.

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Speaker 7: You saw what they were able to do getting one sodo,

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Speaker 8: It'll be very competitive and that I think that's good

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Speaker 7: for the Atlanta Braids. Uh, the Dodgers off to a

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Speaker 7: great start. We know what they have. They spending money

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think they're I think they're doing it the

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Speaker 8: They're going out and getting guys that are gonna help

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Speaker 6: They just want it so they wanna keep winning.

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Speaker 8: And I think they're just using their resources to their advantage, just.

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Speaker 6: Paying you guys and and.

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Speaker 8: Knowing they're gonna get out of the guys that they played.

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Speaker 8: So Uh, I think they're doing it the right way.

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Speaker 8: And I guess everybody else has to pitch up too.

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Speaker 7: I've gonna have to ask you about, of course, the

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Speaker 6: Have you ever experimented with the bat?

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Speaker 6: Anybody here? You use the bat in Atlanta?

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Speaker 9: Rob Braves lose again last night. They're owing six jerks

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Speaker 9: and Profar fails at drug tests. He's out. How cooked

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Speaker 3: They're not cooked.

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Speaker 7: As you know, teams have bounced back from bad starts.

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Speaker 2: We could go back to last year.

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Speaker 4: I think it was the Astro that started seven and

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Speaker 7: They made the playoffs. Of a number of years back.

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Speaker 7: I remember the Twins got off to a bad start

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Speaker 9: However, right, you're being very tempered on this, and you're correct. However,

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Speaker 9: I think they're in a bit of trouble. That kind

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Speaker 7: No, I get it, but I still think baseball, as

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Speaker 7: you know, I know it's a cliche, BK.

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Speaker 2: It's a marathon.

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Speaker 7: And if you think the season is one in the

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Speaker 2: Come on, that's just not baseball.

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Speaker 7: This is not the Detroit Tigers thirty five and five

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Speaker 9: By the way, I love that Robins just drops in

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Speaker 9: a nineteen eighty four reference in there. It's very mad

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Speaker 9: dog of you. I appreciate that. The wire to wire Tigers.

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Speaker 9: All right, Jackson Merrill gets a big contract extension. You

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Speaker 9: you missed the boat on him. I had him number one,

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Speaker 4: Well in this case, I think I told you my

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Speaker 2: I want more in the resume, and I don't blame

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Speaker 2: the Padres were cashing him out. You notice, BK, it

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Speaker 6: That's right. If you believe you've got.

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Speaker 7: Something special, pay the guy now and you'll get a

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Speaker 5: So the Padres are rich now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and I'm lessay.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, he's quite sold. No, I get it, but you

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Speaker 9: weren't quite sold. I thought I saw like a special

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm not going to disagree with that, but I

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Speaker 2: We have seen people. Can I bring up the old name.

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Speaker 7: I'm not saying that he's Joe Sharbonneau, but Joe Charbonneau

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Speaker 9: You again, you get you're consistent. You pump the breaks,

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Speaker 9: Eventually you're gonna have to just not hit the brakes

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Speaker 9: last thing, Padres. Dodgers still unbeaten? Where are you on

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Speaker 9: Did you last year that the Padres had them dead

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Speaker 2: I did.

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Speaker 6: I picked the Padres.

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Speaker 7: In fact, that's a different thing.

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Speaker 9: Like rob in the playoffs, they Dodgers get knocked out

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Speaker 7: If you start seven and oh and you haven't even

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Speaker 2: Could you can't play one thousand ball the rest.

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Speaker 9: Of the way the other guys, the other guys can't

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Speaker 9: I don't think the Dodgers. The Dodgers are so crazy deep.

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Speaker 9: I don't think they're discouraged. Last year was the year

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Speaker 5: They won.

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Speaker 9: They win a measly ninety eight games. This year it's

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Speaker 9: going to be a bigger number. But I appreciate that.

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Speaker 9: You go out on a limb again. You don't ground

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Speaker 3: I get it.

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

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Speaker 1: if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a writer

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Speaker 4: Now, let's welcome in one of the best baseball writers

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Speaker 4: out there, a friend of mine, Gordon Wittenmeyer, who covers

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Speaker 5: Gordon, welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 11: How are you, buddy, I'm doing great. Thanks for having

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Speaker 11: me on. Man, good to see it.

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Speaker 4: Always Man, always, we gotta get you on the podcast.

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Speaker 4: Cincinnati Reds coming into Thursday. Two and four back to

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Speaker 5: What's going on? Because they had a big night a

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so the bats weren't necessarily alive the first series

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Speaker 11: They're not fully healthy. You know, they're good hitting. Catcher

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Speaker 5: Do you know his par.

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Speaker 11: There was one out every four fly balls goes out.

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Speaker 5: Let's get back to Hunter Green.

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Speaker 4: Here, he had his five hundredth career strikeout, the fastest

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Speaker 11: he came back at the end of the season. He

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Speaker 11: showed his teammates that he was there for him. He

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Speaker 11: came back. That was big for him, It was big

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Speaker 11: for them. The organization talks behind the scenes about how

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Speaker 11: important that was in his development, because you remember, he's

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Speaker 11: still a real young pitcher and he's done most of

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Speaker 11: his development at the big league level and the grind

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Speaker 11: of the big leagues, the messiness of every day and

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Speaker 11: putting failure behind you and answering the bell the next time.

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Speaker 11: All of that is what makes baseball what I think

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Speaker 11: is the hardest game to succeed in. And if pictures too,

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Speaker 11: for pictures too, and pictures of that talent level. But

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Speaker 11: he's had to learn all this at the big league level,

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Speaker 11: and so the fact they did that last year. In fact,

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Speaker 11: he's off to what I think is a good start

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Speaker 11: this year, even if he hasn't gotten the results yet.

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Speaker 11: This is a big year for him. And if it's

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Speaker 11: if it turns, if he turns it into a big year,

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Speaker 11: that's a huge year for the Cincinnati Reds and to

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Speaker 11: your point, the Cy Young Race, he'll be in a

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Speaker 11: lot of Cy Young races going forward if if he,

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Speaker 11: if he just keeps up this this this mentality, this

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Speaker 11: learning curve, where he's at in his career right now, All.

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Speaker 5: Right, let's turn here.

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Speaker 4: I guest is Gorin Wintenmeyer, the Cincinnati Reds beat writer

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Speaker 4: for the Cincinnati Inquirer. I want to go to Ellie

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Speaker 4: da Cruz, who you know a lot of people are

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Speaker 4: high on this year. Even Brian Kenney, my cohort at

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Speaker 4: MLB Network, is picking Ellie to win the National League MVP.

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Speaker 5: That's how high he is on Ellie Dela Cruz.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, Wow, he had a big night using that

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Speaker 4: torpedo bat, But what do you expect out of Elie

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Speaker 4: Dela Cruz on a daily basis?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, Well, the whole key to him. We've seen this

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Speaker 11: now for a year and a half plus. The talent

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Speaker 11: is just it's just off the charts. I mean, there's

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Speaker 11: just really no comp for what he does in the

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Speaker 11: game right now. It's funny because sho Haes the other

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Speaker 11: guy that's not a comp for an entirely different reason.

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Speaker 11: But I think these two guys are the two guys

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Speaker 11: with no comps. And the thing about it is the strikeouts.

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Speaker 11: Right He led the league in strikeouts last year and

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Speaker 11: it was fourth all time in a number of strikeouts. Wow,

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Speaker 11: his success growth will be entirely in direct proportion to

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Speaker 11: how those strikeouts come down. If they come down one percent,

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Speaker 11: he's gonna get one percent better at everything else he does.

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Speaker 11: And that's a lot, by the way, because he already

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Speaker 11: does things so well. If he can bring it down

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Speaker 11: five percent and gets five percent better, then we are

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Speaker 11: talking about m vps. So that's that's what Uh, that's

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Speaker 11: what has to happen. You gotta watch for that. I mean,

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Speaker 11: you know, he had that big four four hit game

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Speaker 11: with the double and two homers the other night with

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Speaker 11: the with the torpedo bat and and then he used

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Speaker 11: the torpedo bat and and didn't really do all that

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Speaker 11: well the next two games, you know, and he was

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Speaker 11: you know, they lost one to another. He was in

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Speaker 11: the lineup both times. So a lot of strikeouts too.

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Speaker 11: So I it just it's just gonna be if he

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Speaker 11: stays healthy and he cuts those strike as down a

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Speaker 11: little bit and he's done a few things to adjust

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Speaker 11: to maybe do that, and uh we'll see if you're

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Speaker 11: if your boy Kenny's right.

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 4: One last thing here, Terry frank Cone of course, who

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Speaker 4: had retired from Cleveland, Uh, is he does He seemed

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Speaker 4: you know, energized, re energized, Uh, you know, up to

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Speaker 4: the task for this coming back as manager of the

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Speaker 4: Reds big time.

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Speaker 11: I went down to his place and met with him

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Speaker 11: for a couple hours in Tucson back in January, and uh,

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Speaker 11: he was just he's got this chair in his living

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Speaker 11: room that he calls his rocking chair. It looks it's

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Speaker 11: it looks like a lazy boy, right, except I don't

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Speaker 11: know that it has the thing that kicks up you

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Speaker 11: can put your feet on or not, but it it

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Speaker 11: rocks back and forth and it swivels, and man, the

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Speaker 11: more he talked about the upcoming season and getting back

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Speaker 11: in the game, the more that chair moved. And this

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Speaker 11: is so, this is a guy who he's clearly recharged

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Speaker 11: and clearly charged up to be back in the game,

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Speaker 11: kind of like Boachie. He's younger than Bochie and uh

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Speaker 11: probably doesn't move any better than boach does, but uh,

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Speaker 11: same kind of thing. Right, was out of the game

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Speaker 11: and just realized how much he needed to be back

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Speaker 11: in the game. So he's revitalized right now. And I

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Speaker 11: don't see a drop off in energy level from what

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Speaker 11: we've seen all those years in Cleveland, for instance. I

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Speaker 11: think if anybody's gonna figure out how to get a

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Speaker 11: little more out of that lineup and get a little

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Speaker 11: more success, get a little more results out of this

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Speaker 11: pitching they're getting, it'll be him, all right.

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Speaker 4: Gordon Wentenmeier, one of the best in the business covering

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Speaker 4: the Cincinnati Reds for the Cincinnati Enquirer. We'll see you

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Speaker 4: on the road, of course, somewhere down the line, our friend,

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Speaker 4: Take care and thank you for all right.

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Speaker 11: Thanks man, good to see it.

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Speaker 3: Is it foul or Is It Fair?

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Speaker 1: And now from mlbro dot com Here's Jr.

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Speaker 5: Gampbell Jr.

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Speaker 4: The Red Sox wasted no time locking up rookie second

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Speaker 4: basement Christian Campbell to an eight year, sixty million dollar contract.

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Speaker 5: Is it foul or fair? To both sides?

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Speaker 12: Fair? The Red Sox will be forever cursed letting Mookie

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Speaker 12: Betts go over supposed money. With Christian Campbell showing the

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Speaker 12: potential to be the most talented player that the franchise

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Speaker 12: has seen since Mookie Betts and smoking the ball early

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Speaker 12: in the season, the Red Sox want to pay him

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Speaker 12: early rather than later. And why not if Campbell, who

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Speaker 12: like Bets, is from Tennessee, has all of the tools

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Speaker 12: offensively and defensively that he appears to have early.

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Speaker 6: In his career.

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Speaker 12: Then in three years his salary, which doesn't even clear

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Speaker 12: eight million per will be a bargain and the Red

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Speaker 12: Size will definitely have to negotiate for now. Campbell took

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Speaker 12: a similar deal to the one Key Brian Hayes signed

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Speaker 12: with the Pittsburgh Pirates in twenty twenty two. An eight

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Speaker 12: year contract worked seventy million dollars, giving the second generation

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Speaker 12: third baseman the richest contract in club history. But that's

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Speaker 12: not even ten million per for a supposed franchise player money.

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Speaker 12: Mike Harris of the Atlanta Braves signed an eight year,

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Speaker 12: seventy two million dollar deal a while back. So a

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Speaker 12: baseball career can be over in one bad season. So

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Speaker 12: to take those early deals with less money, that works

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Speaker 12: because you're still getting generational wealth. The fact that these

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Speaker 12: bros are getting paid is a great thing and guarantees

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Speaker 12: one Navy representation in these lineups and to cross the league,

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Speaker 12: So for sure, fair, fair for Christian Campbell, Fair for

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Speaker 12: the Red Sox.

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Speaker 3: Make way for weekend wagers.

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Speaker 9: Yo, it's shine bo with fire up those bed naps,

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Speaker 9: let's go.

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Speaker 6: Week one was a little up, a little down.

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Speaker 10: The down we lost on Friday, but the up was

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Speaker 10: we won easily on Saturday.

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Speaker 6: So let's keep that up in week two.

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Speaker 12: But let's get a week started off with a couple

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Speaker 12: of picks hotter than Robs takes.

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Speaker 6: Go ahead and take the Detroit Tigers for that mattne game.

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Speaker 6: On Friday, they take on the White Sox that with

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Speaker 6: black jack clarity on the mound. You know that is money.

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Speaker 6: Saturday is game.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna stick to the hotness.

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Speaker 12: Go ahead and take the Los Angeles Dodgers minus one

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Speaker 12: and a half against the Phillies.

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Speaker 6: You know how the Dodgers have been. The Phillies have

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Speaker 6: been a little up, a little down, still trying to

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Speaker 6: find their path.

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Speaker 12: And you know that our patches straight to the green

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Speaker 12: stick and shape inside.

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Speaker 3: The Parker MLB fans.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to Major League Baseball, no.

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Speaker 3: One covers it better than the odd cover fast.

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Speaker 5: I am the baseball kid first.

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Speaker 7: Second, third, and then we're leading shows with baseball.

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Speaker 4: Watch it all in one place right here on Fox

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Speaker 4: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: I love baseball.

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Speaker 4: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 4: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time, this time until

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Speaker 4: next time.

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Speaker 5: Rob Parker out. He can't, given this could be an

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Speaker 5: inside of Parker.

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Speaker 3: See you next week, same bad time, same Matt station,