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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 fifty seven.

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Speaker 2: You have another hot take.

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Speaker 1: Will not NOC make the playoffs show? Hey me the money,

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker.

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Speaker 3: Come on, I've been covering Major League Baseball for almost

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Speaker 3: forty years now, in New York, in Cincinnati, in Detroit,

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Speaker 3: in LA.

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Speaker 1: I love this game. Let's go. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 4: I'm your host, Rob Parker, and what a show we

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Speaker 4: have for you today on tap. Coming up, Cleveland Guardian's

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Speaker 4: pitcher Tristan mackenzie joins us. Also from WFAN in New York,

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Speaker 4: Keith McPherson.

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Speaker 1: He drops by, let's go better up to lead off.

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Speaker 1: It's getting rocked to keep him. Rob's hot take on

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

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Speaker 4: Number one, Washington Nationals left fielder James Wood has arrived.

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Speaker 4: Yes he has. We saw that in the first two

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Speaker 4: games against the Dodgers down in DC. In that series

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Speaker 4: where Wood hit three home runs, all against lefties in

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Speaker 4: the first two games, and coming into Wednesday he had

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Speaker 4: four home runs, ten rbi, batting two seventy five and

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Speaker 4: was balling out. He's, as advertised. The Washington Nationals very

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Speaker 4: high on him. He was the hidden gym in that

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Speaker 4: trade with the Padres. You remember when they gave up

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Speaker 4: Juan Soto, James Wood was in it. And for the Nationals,

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Speaker 4: He's the perfect star. Big strong handed swinger, home run

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Speaker 1: He's a local kid.

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Speaker 4: You want to talk about trying to sell somebody and

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Speaker 4: have them be the face of your organization moving on.

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Speaker 4: Nothing better than a big, strong, left handed home run

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Speaker 4: hitter who's local. So listen out and watch out for

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Speaker 4: James Wood all year.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 4: He's six foot seven, probably should have played basketball, but

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Speaker 4: he's a great baseball player, a young up and coming

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Speaker 4: star in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: Number two.

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Speaker 4: The Toronto Blue Jays they anted up and rightfully sold

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Speaker 4: for Vladimir Guerrero Junior.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 4: A fourteen year extension for five hundred million dollars. Don't

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Speaker 4: scratch your head. It makes total sense. That's like thirty

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Speaker 4: five million dollars a year. Okay, I know you look

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Speaker 4: at fourteen years and you say, oh my god, how

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Speaker 4: they gonna pay somebody that long.

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Speaker 1: You're not worried about that.

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Speaker 4: If he gives you eight good years and you can

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Speaker 4: that contract eight or ten years from now, thirty five

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Speaker 1: This is good to be able to keep one of

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Speaker 4: He just turned twenty six. This guy's led the major

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Speaker 4: does a lot of stuff. You gotta sell tickets. This

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Speaker 4: is baseball. You can't let all your star players go

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Speaker 4: because you don't want to pay their lucky The ceiling

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Speaker 4: right by Juan Soto, and you got them for five hundred,

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Speaker 1: Good deal on both sides. Number three.

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Speaker 4: The Cincinnati Reds have their race for years to come.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's welcome in Tristan Mackenzie, of course pitcher

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Speaker 4: for the Cleveland Guardians. Tristan, thanks for joining the podcast.

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Speaker 5: My pleasure, thank you for having me always.

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Speaker 1: My man.

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Speaker 4: Uh, let's just talk about you when the start of

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Speaker 4: the season. How are you feeling this year?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, biggest thing is health. Feeling healthy, feeling strong, ready

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Speaker 4: And of course this year you're in the bullpen and start.

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Speaker 4: Just talk about the chain you have to make from

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think the preparation is a lot

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Speaker 5: you feel good every day. I feel like as a starter,

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Speaker 4: And last year, you know, if it's not wasn't a

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when you went through it though, I mean, did

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean? You've had success in the

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Speaker 1: How did you work through that?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think, like the game is a game.

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Speaker 5: I think it's built for us to fail. So I

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Speaker 5: never I never took me failing out there as anything

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Speaker 4: Our guess is Tristan McKenzie. Of course, pitch it with

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Speaker 4: the Cleveland Guardians, And as you look into this season,

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Speaker 4: is there a timetable? Is there some sort of formula

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Speaker 4: what is the game plan?

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Speaker 5: I mean I have no thought process forward like that.

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Speaker 4: And is there more pressure as a believer because the

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Speaker 4: not that as a starter it isn't, but you figure

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Speaker 4: How about this team this year. It's good to have

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Speaker 4: high expectations. Obviously, Josh Naila was traded. What was that

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Speaker 4: How about the division. Obviously, the Tigers came back roaring

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Speaker 5: of show the rest of the league what we can.

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Speaker 4: Do, all right, Tristan Mackenzie, appreciate you joining us here

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Speaker 2: Special day. You're at your.

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Speaker 6: Old high school in Queens, New York right now, Rob,

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Speaker 1: That's huge. Congratulations, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: BK Yes, Martin Van Buren High School here in Queen's Village,

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Speaker 6: That's Madeline Kahn, right, Madeline Excellent High School.

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Speaker 4: Donnie Deutsch is all the way to the right, Donnie Deutsch,

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Speaker 6: Should be the Rob should be Rob Parker High School.

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Speaker 2: All right, that's that's huge.

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Speaker 1: Good for you?

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Speaker 6: That's what the kids feel like seeing you now, Rob.

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Speaker 1: Chicken wings are a part of my diet. I must

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Speaker 6: You'll get it there in Queens, by the way, that's

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Speaker 6: You are in terrific company there, Rob, great having you

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Speaker 1: Thank you, b Kem. We'll see you next week. When

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Speaker 4: Now let's welcome into the podcast one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: Keith Man, thanks for joining the podcast here. What up?

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Speaker 6: Rob?

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me Man.

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Speaker 4: Good to see you, no doubt always and uh great

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Speaker 1: Uh you always got stuff to talk about. And I

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Speaker 4: So let's jump into it with both New York baseball teams. First,

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Speaker 2: The power numbers will come, let's go here.

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Speaker 4: The expectations, the realistic expectations of the Mets when you

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Speaker 4: think about it. Keith the National league is strong here

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Speaker 4: we are earlier in the season and the Dodgers are

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Speaker 4: in third place in the NL West. I mean, you

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Speaker 4: talk about the Giants are good so far. You talk

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Speaker 4: about the Padres. We know about the Phillies, we know

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Speaker 4: about the Braids, we know about the Mets. Even though

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Speaker 4: the Braids are off to a shaky start. There are

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Speaker 4: a lot of good teams in the National League. Does

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Speaker 4: this team make it to the World Series?

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Speaker 2: Nah, They're not making it to the World Series.

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Speaker 9: And I know I sound like a hater, but like

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Speaker 9: they are getting by right now with Clay Holmes and

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Speaker 9: Griffin Canning and Tyler McGill and David Peter and Kodi Sanga.

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Speaker 9: Their bullpen has been the best in baseball. They've been

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Speaker 9: in lights out phenomenal. Shot out to Mendoza managing that pen.

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Speaker 9: But you know, there's gonna come a stretch of the

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Speaker 9: season where they're not playing against the Marlins. They've had

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Speaker 9: two series against the Marlins. There's gonna come a stretch

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Speaker 9: of the season where they're not playing against the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 9: You know they're gonna face some teams that have an

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Speaker 9: axe to grind in their division. Right they knocked off

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Speaker 9: the Braves. They knocked off the Phillies last year. And

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Speaker 9: they're gonna face some teams with some star power, you know,

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Speaker 9: like the Dodgers, and even like the Giants have made

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Speaker 9: some noise, the Diamondbacks have made some noise.

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Speaker 2: The Brewers have.

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Speaker 9: Figured it out after getting swept their first series. Like

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Speaker 9: there are teams in the National League the Cubs, there

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Speaker 9: are teams in the National League with some star power too,

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Speaker 9: that are gonna want to go toe to toe with

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Speaker 9: them and have better starting pitching than them. Where it's

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Speaker 9: gonna come down to, you know, if you have an

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Speaker 9: ace or not that can get you through five, six,

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Speaker 9: seven innings. And I don't know if they have those guys,

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Speaker 9: and I don't know how long their bullpen is gonna hold.

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Speaker 9: Their pitching has been ahead of their their lineup right there.

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Speaker 9: They've been able to win games three to two, two

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Speaker 9: to one, two nothing. That's not gonna hold all year.

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Speaker 9: You're gonna have to put.

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Speaker 2: Up some runs. So I don't think they're a World.

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Speaker 9: Series team this year, but I do think they can

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Speaker 9: be a postseason team, a playoff team. It's hard enough

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Speaker 9: in the Mets history for them to go back to

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Speaker 9: back years making the postseason, so I think they can

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Speaker 9: get the wild card again.

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Speaker 4: Our guest is Keith McPherson, of course, radio host of

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Speaker 4: WFAN in New York, the original all sports station in

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Speaker 4: this country. Let's go to the Bronx, Bombers and the Yankees,

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Speaker 4: and of course Aaron Judge got off to a fantastic start.

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Speaker 4: And the crazy thing is when you look at the

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Speaker 4: numbers between him and Babe Ruth in the same amount

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Speaker 4: of games and they had identical home runs. When you

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Speaker 4: see that, it tells you where he fits in historically.

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Speaker 4: He's got to be one of the greatest sluggers that

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Speaker 4: we've ever seen in baseball.

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Speaker 9: They were a couple of stats with Babe Ruth somewhere

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Speaker 9: with Garrig and DiMaggio. And we laugh as Yankee fans,

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Speaker 9: especially as young Yankee fans that have you know, we've

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Speaker 9: never even kind of.

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Speaker 2: Seen, you know, the old days, and like.

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Speaker 9: We we almost look at those as like fables and

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Speaker 9: fairy tales, like yeah, you know, it sounds good, and

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Speaker 9: you know they were this good back then.

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Speaker 2: But Judges this good right now. And what I'm hoping for.

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Speaker 9: Judge is that he does statistically have his best season,

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Speaker 9: another MVP season, and he could just do it in October.

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Speaker 1: Here's the other question.

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Speaker 4: Last thing on the Yankees and their expectations. Obviously, they

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Speaker 4: went to the World Series for the first time since

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Speaker 4: two thousand and nine. People have not counted them out,

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Speaker 4: even though you know, you lose your ace pitcher for

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Speaker 4: the year. But they did sign Max Freed and they

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Speaker 4: have other pictures. Do they have enough pitching in the

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Speaker 4: al to make it out and get back to the

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Speaker 4: World Series and try to win a World.

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Speaker 2: Series right now?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 2: Right now?

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: The same way I just went through the names pitching

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Speaker 2: for the Mets.

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Speaker 9: You got Carlos Carrasco going out there, and Carlos Carrasco is.

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Speaker 2: At the end of his career. He's you know, Cookie

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Speaker 2: is about done.

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Speaker 9: You have Will Warren, who is a whole rookie, he's

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Speaker 9: still at single digit starts in Major League Baseball. You

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Speaker 9: have guys like Marcus Stroman going who in the offseason,

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Speaker 9: all the conversation was, they're trading him, They're trading them,

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Speaker 9: They're trading him. And he didn't pitch in October and

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Speaker 9: was shut down for a lot of the end of

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Speaker 9: the season. So like you're relying on that. Carlos Rodan

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Speaker 9: is shaky, and then you mentioned Max Freed. Max Freed,

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Speaker 9: I mean, Yankee fans are glad to have him because

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Speaker 9: he's an ace. When you lose Cole he is an ace.

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Speaker 9: He's gotten all the run support, but there's going to

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Speaker 9: come a time where he's got to hold it down

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Speaker 9: and he's not getting run support.

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Speaker 2: The bullpen has been solid, but at the.

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Speaker 9: Same time, you know they're signing Adam Ottavino, dropping him

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Speaker 9: bringing them back. They're relying on guys like Ryan Yarborough

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Speaker 9: who was cut. They're kind of patching this thing together

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Speaker 9: and waiting for guys to come back. You need to

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Speaker 9: solid starters in October to get you through.

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Speaker 4: No doubt. He is Keith McPherson. He knows the game

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Speaker 4: of baseball. Listen to him on wf in New York. Man,

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Speaker 4: Keith appreciate it, loved it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, my man, Rob you the man, appreciate you.

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Speaker 1: Keep doing your thing, Bro, It's time for the pocket

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Speaker 1: protector centrum. The analytic numbers. You need to know.

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS, analytics is

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Speaker 4: his game.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for me, Anthony?

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Speaker 8: It would be easy to talk about torpedo bats and

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Speaker 8: what they're doing for the game so far in twenty

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Speaker 8: twenty five, but that's last week's news. What's interesting to

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Speaker 8: me through the first two weeks is the new metrics

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Speaker 8: we have for batter stands and positioning. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 8: I'm a hoot at parties. Like most new metrics through

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Speaker 8: stat Cast, the stance metrics are things we always learn

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Speaker 8: growing up. Hey, close your stands, put your feet farther apart,

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Speaker 8: scoop back in the box, et cetera. But with official

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Speaker 8: data now provided for it, you can find out how

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Speaker 8: deep a batter is in the box, how far from

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Speaker 8: the plate, the distance between their feet and their stance angle.

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Speaker 8: Now on the outset, the info might not tell you

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Speaker 8: a lot, but look at players who maybe struggled last

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Speaker 8: year and have started strong this year, you can see

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Speaker 8: where some of the adjustments were made. Look no further

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Speaker 8: than former number one pick of the Tigers, Spencer Torkelsen.

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Speaker 8: Torque scuffled so mightily last season he was sent back

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Speaker 8: down to Triple A and left off the playoff roster. Now,

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Speaker 8: looking at his feet from last year, he's moved back

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Speaker 8: in the box over five inches moved back off the

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Speaker 8: plate two inches, brought his feet ten inches closer together,

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Speaker 8: and opened up his stands nearly fifteen degrees. That resulted

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Speaker 8: in improvements from a two to nineteen average and just

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Speaker 8: ten homers last year to a three to eleven mark

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Speaker 8: and already three homers this year. He didn't hit his

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Speaker 8: third homer last year until May nineteenth, New Year, new metrics,

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Speaker 8: New lease on life for certain players.

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Speaker 1: No, this is boloon. It's the Parker pushback. Shut hear,

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Speaker 1: Rob tackles the outlandish takes in Major League Baseball. You idiot,

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Speaker 1: shut up.

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Speaker 4: I'm pushing back at all those baseball fans who were

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Speaker 4: mad at Cincinnati Red shortstop Elie de la Cruz for

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Speaker 4: trying to bunt in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

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Speaker 4: Where sure, the Brewers pitcher had a no hitter through

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Speaker 4: five innings, but this was the sixth inning of a game.

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Speaker 4: The Reds were coming off three straight one nothing losses.

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Speaker 4: They had no offense going talking about it's an unwritten rule.

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Speaker 4: You don't bunt during a no hitter.

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Speaker 1: You don't button the ninth inning. If a guy has

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Speaker 1: a no hitter, you gotta swing the bat. I'm with

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Speaker 1: that that unwritten rule.

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Speaker 4: But in the sixth inning of a game where your

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Speaker 4: team needs to spark and you need to do something

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Speaker 4: to get on base and give your team a chance.

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Speaker 4: Come on, man, you guys are getting too crazy with this.

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Speaker 4: The idea that one of the fastest guys in baseball

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Speaker 4: can't button the sixth inning because his team is being.

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Speaker 1: No hit what. The game was far from over.

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Speaker 4: Ellie day La Cruz was in legal right to bunt

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Speaker 4: do whatever he wanted to do to get on base

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Speaker 4: during that time. Man, Come on, it's baseball, belly aken.

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Speaker 4: Stop trying to help people get no hitters. And the

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Speaker 4: ninth inning is one thing. The rest of the game,

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Speaker 4: all bets are off.

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Speaker 1: Make way for weekend wagers.

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Speaker 10: Yo, it's shabo. Fire up those bed naps, let's go.

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Speaker 10: Let's get into it in week three. And you know

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Speaker 10: week two was fired two and zero. Go ahead and

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Speaker 10: market in the books.

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Speaker 11: Three wins up, one win down, and we're gonna keep

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Speaker 11: that hot streak going this week as we visit the Bronx.

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Speaker 11: And you know it wouldn't be right if we're not

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Speaker 11: taking plus money dogs and the San Francisco Giants are them.

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Speaker 10: Go ahead and take Robbie Ray on Friday. Two wins,

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Speaker 10: zero losses so far, and I'm sorry to do this

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Speaker 10: to our fellow mal marauder Marcus Stroman, but the Black

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Speaker 10: ace has not looked good and those bats are not

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Speaker 10: swinging for the Yankees, and we're gonna stay there on Saturday.

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Speaker 10: Go ahead and bet on the young black age.

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Speaker 1: Short and hits.

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Speaker 10: Yes, we're taking the Giants back to back in the Bronx.

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Speaker 10: Take that plus money again for the hottest him in baseball,

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Speaker 10: looking for that number one spot in the NL West.

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Speaker 10: Bending on the Giants all weekend long, and we see

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Speaker 10: y'all next week. Mlbbro dot Com Inside the Parker Hi.

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Speaker 12: where we cover black.

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Speaker 1: And brown major leaguers.

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Speaker 12: Seventy five percent of the content will be about the

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Speaker 12: current black and brown stars in Major League Baseball. The

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Speaker 12: other twenty five percent will take a look back at

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Speaker 12: some of the great black players On the site, There'll

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Speaker 12: be a ton of great written stories and videos and features.

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Speaker 1: MLB brocause you need to know fm mlbfans. When it

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Speaker 1: comes to Major League Baseball, no one covers it better

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Speaker 1: than the odd couple fact I am. The baseball came first, second,

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Speaker 2: We're leading shows with baseball.

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

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

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Speaker 4: next time. Rob Parker out he can't Gavin.

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside of Parker.

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Speaker 7: See you next week, same bat time, same bat station,