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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 free agent edition of Inside

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Speaker 2: the Parker. We'll talk about the moving and shaking going

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Speaker 2: on in the league and all the other stuff with

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Speaker 2: big signing. The historic contract with Juan Soto will do

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Speaker 2: that and much more. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off. It's getting robbed to keep

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Speaker 1: them on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. Number one.

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Speaker 2: Juan Soto was introduced on Thursday in New York as

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Speaker 2: the newest New York Met, leaving the Yankees for the

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Speaker 2: Mets for a record breaking fifteen year, seven hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty five million dollar deal. Hello is this on seven

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty five million dollars? And a great quote

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Speaker 2: from the super rich, the richest owner in baseball, Steve Cohen,

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Speaker 2: who said that he misread the whole situation and didn't

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Speaker 2: think they had a shot at getting him because the

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Speaker 2: Yankees surprisingly offered seven hundred and sixty million dollars, but

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Speaker 2: it was over sixteen years and the Mets offer was

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Speaker 2: over fifteen You say, what's the big difference between five million, well,

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Speaker 2: five million plus a year. He would have been making

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Speaker 2: forty seven point five million with the Yankees per year

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Speaker 2: over the sixteen year contract. With the Mets. It turns

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Speaker 2: out to be fifty one million a year over the

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Speaker 2: fifteen years. But any Code told the UH members of

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Speaker 2: the media at the press conference quote, usually I'm a

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Speaker 2: pretty good I'm pretty good at reading the signals. This

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Speaker 2: one I totally missed, and he was saying. Soto's agent,

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Speaker 2: Scott Bars called me, and I realized, holy blank, this

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Speaker 2: could happen. I didn't expect it. I had no expectations

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Speaker 2: it was gonna happen. I was blown away. And Sodo,

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Speaker 2: of course, is twenty six years old. I spent his

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Speaker 2: first five Major league seasons with the Washington Nationals. He

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Speaker 2: won a World Series in twenty nineteen. The Nats offered

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Speaker 2: him four hundred and forty million dollars. We all know

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Speaker 2: that story. I was dead wrong. I thought he was

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Speaker 2: crazy not to take that offer at that time. He

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Speaker 2: I think did okay. They never got a long term

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Speaker 2: with them to the Yankees. Following the twenty twenty three season.

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Speaker 2: Of course, he goes to the Bronx as a career

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Speaker 2: high and home runs forty one. He's one hundred and

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Speaker 2: So all those good things there. Soda wasn't had a

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Speaker 2: huge role, of course in the Yankees getting to the

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Speaker 2: World Series for the first time since two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 2: and for the Yankees it was amazing. But I gotta

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Speaker 2: has a right as a free agent to go and

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Speaker 2: do whatever he wants. I was a little surprised that

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Speaker 2: he would leave the Bronx with the fans there, the

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Speaker 2: Dominican fans who fell in love with him. The history

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Speaker 2: of the Yankees you know him in that lineup with Judge.

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Speaker 2: You know how good the Yankees were a year ago.

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Speaker 2: And I get it, the Mets made it to the NLCS.

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Speaker 2: I'm not convinced that he's the missing piece for the Mets.

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Speaker 2: And they go into the World Series this year, don't forget.

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Speaker 2: want to have to live up to that contract. Weren't

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Speaker 2: pinstripes compared to playing in Queens, And it is a difference.

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Speaker 2: Why in the world would they go and signed Soto.

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Speaker 2: it's an incredible movement. The Yankees of course went out

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Speaker 2: That's a great pickup to add to their rotation. And

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Speaker 2: they're not done. They're going to make some other moves

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Speaker 2: The Yankees didn't boohoo. They pivoted as soon as they

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Speaker 2: And that's a blow to the Atlanta Braids. I mean,

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Speaker 2: know he's playing Tampa Bay. I know you saw him

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Speaker 2: in the World Series. But you're ready for this. Snell's

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Speaker 2: eleven point two career strikeouts per nine innings is the

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Speaker 2: last year, not the two thousands in the history of baseball.

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Speaker 2: So the Dodgers have a stud They're going to be

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Speaker 1: Now, bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better

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Speaker 2: Reason number five hundred and fifty five were 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 you can still see things in baseball that

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Speaker 2: somehow he didn't win Time magazine Athlete of the Year.

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Speaker 2: How Caitlin Clark who I Give You? Was a social

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Speaker 2: She didn't get her team, uh the Indiana Fever. They

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Speaker 2: She didn't even make the Olympic team. How How in

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Speaker 2: the world is that the Athlete of the Is it

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Speaker 2: can't be Athlete of the Year after doing something no

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Speaker 2: don't know. So you mean to tell me somebody doing

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Speaker 2: can't buy sold out those games the game she played in.

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Speaker 2: The TV ratings were good, but there's still the same league. Yes,

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Speaker 2: they're more eyeballs because of her, but show Hey. I

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Speaker 2: It was incredible. I just for spring training. I've been

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Speaker 2: They got it wrong. I'm right show Hey was the

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

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

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside of Parker. See you next week,

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Speaker 1: same bat time, same bat station.