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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 six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Rob Parker. Man, what a show we have

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Speaker 1: for you. We'll talk with Chicago baseball writer mar Gonzalez

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Speaker 1: will go over his Hall of Fame ballot and we'll

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Speaker 1: discuss that. Also, Fox Sports Radios Bernie Fritto will make

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Speaker 1: his case for Kurt Schilling, who did not get into

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Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame this time around. That and much

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Speaker 1: more starts now to lead off, it's getting robbed and

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Speaker 1: keep him on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest

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Speaker 1: stories in Major League Baseball. Number one, It was a

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Speaker 1: sad day in baseball last week when Hank Aaron passed

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Speaker 1: away at age eighty six, one of the all time

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Speaker 1: great sluggers in baseball history. He was an amazing player,

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Speaker 1: and his impact on the game, it was tremendous. Think

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Speaker 1: about this. Hank Aaron played in the Negro leagues. Hank

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Speaker 1: of consistency. When you think that Hank Aaron batted three

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Speaker 1: And then when you think about what he had to

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Speaker 1: hate and the threats and the racism that was pointed

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Speaker 1: monumental moment that was when Hank Aaron became the all

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Speaker 1: Barry Bonds and and and I don't really want to

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Speaker 1: the body of work that Hank Aaron has done, he

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Speaker 1: Never hit fifty home runs? How can a guy play

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Speaker 1: Number two. The Baseball Hall of Fame will have no

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Speaker 1: And the the the dialogue against Shilling is that he

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Speaker 1: And the expanded playoffs. I don't want baseball to make

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Speaker 1: All right, let's welcome in Fox sports radio personality Bernie Frotto.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Mr Bernie Frotto, who played minor league

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Speaker 1: baseball and loves baseball as much as I do. What's happening, Bernie, Well,

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Speaker 1: He was about six team votes short at seventy one

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Speaker 1: Here you are, Bernie Fratt, will make your case for

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Speaker 1: member of the Brave, but by his father and mother.

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Speaker 1: He threw his arms around his father, and as he

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Speaker 1: left the home fight area, his mother came running across

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Speaker 1: the grass, threw her arms around his neck, kissed him

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Speaker 1: for all fewer words in the words of New York

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Speaker 1: TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your

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Speaker 1: time this time until next time. Rob Parker out. He

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Speaker 1: can't get it. This could be an inside of Parker

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Speaker 1: to see you next week, same bad time, same mancination.

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Speaker 1: Joe Offer