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Speaker 1: live in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You

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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 eight six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I am Rob Parker, your host. What a show we have.

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Speaker 1: When you lined up, we will talk with former Red

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Speaker 1: Sox star Kevin Eukolus. He joined the podcast. Also former

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Speaker 1: Major leaguer and Fox Sports analyst Nick's Wisher will stop

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Speaker 1: by that and much more. But first let's kick it

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Speaker 1: off with Getting Robbed. To lead off, it's Getting Robbed

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

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Speaker 1: biggest stories in Major League Baseball Number one. Call me foolish,

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Speaker 1: call me overly optimistic, but I do believe we will

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Speaker 1: have a baseball season in I keep hearing the stuff

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Speaker 1: that's leaked out to the media like you have. The

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Speaker 1: owners offered their seventies six games season. The players barked

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Speaker 1: at that, but the players have now offered the eighty

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Speaker 1: nine games season. And if you look at both of

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Speaker 1: and fourteen games season. The owners that set a fifty

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Speaker 1: game season. This is all negotiations, and I get it.

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Speaker 1: But to me, when you talk about eighty nine and

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Speaker 1: in the middle between eighty or eighty two games, we

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Speaker 1: should have a season. And I think that's enough game

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Speaker 1: at and say, oh, you remember that horrible year when

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Speaker 1: they played forty eight games. Forty eight games is not

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Speaker 1: So you gotta have at least half a season. Get

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Speaker 1: I'm all for a two game season. I believe both

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Speaker 1: Baseball America. Number two. I don't know about you, but

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Speaker 1: the Baseball Draft took place Wednesday night, and talk about

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Speaker 1: feeling weird or strange, it was weird. It was strange.

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Speaker 1: First of all, only five rounds. Baseball has had forty

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Speaker 1: which is unheard of, and you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: opt the nonsense. I can't believe what I heard out

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Speaker 1: Of course, three time All Star, two time World Series champion.

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Speaker 1: why we should listen. Yeah, I started a podcast, and

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Speaker 1: the national stage. Eighteen year old Ed Howard is a

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Speaker 1: slip fielding, hard hitting short stop at the south side

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Speaker 1: of Chicondo. If his name sounds familiar, You're right. At

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Speaker 1: the age of twelve, Howard starred on the Jackie Robinson

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Speaker 1: World Series back in let's come a long way since

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Speaker 1: his day's on the field and Williams Sword. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Baseball America ranks Howard as the best high school shortstop

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Speaker 1: in the country and MLB dot com cools in the

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Speaker 1: fifteenth best prospect in the entire draft. Howard now plays

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Speaker 1: for the White Sox Ace program, which helps Chicago area

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Speaker 1: has become friends with the White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson. Now.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of the Chicago Sun Times, Howard said that he

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Speaker 1: hopes to only one day inspire young African American kids

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Speaker 1: from the inner City to want to play baseball, and

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Speaker 1: considering Major League Baseball has an African American population of

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Speaker 1: only seven point seven percent, the sport desperately needs more

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Speaker 1: guys like Ed Howard now bringing the clothes. Here's why

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Speaker 1: MLB is better than the NFL or NBA, and it

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Speaker 1: isn't even close. Baseball is better than the NBA and

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Speaker 1: the NFL, especially this time of the year when people

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Speaker 1: finally shed those clothes and put on shorts and a

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Speaker 1: want to go outside and sit in the sun and

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Speaker 1: here to crack in the bat. I know Corona has

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Speaker 1: a sideline, and we're not gonna get a chance this year,

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Speaker 1: perhaps to sit outside and enjoy baseball. But baseball and

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Speaker 1: the outdoors, that's why people love it so much. It's

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Speaker 1: the best quality time you can spend with a friend

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Speaker 1: date and hang out. You can spend so much time

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Speaker 1: talking and catching up, but also catching the ball game,

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Speaker 1: having a hot dog and a beer. There's nothing better.

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Speaker 1: When you go to football and NBA games, you kind

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Speaker 1: of gotta pay attention the entire time. There's not much

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Speaker 1: time to hang out and uh enjoy each other's company.

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Speaker 1: You gotta keep your eye on the field. That's not

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Speaker 1: the case in baseball. That's why it's better than the

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Speaker 1: other sports. In the words of New York TV legend

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Speaker 1: the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this

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Speaker 1: time until next time, Rob Parker out. He can't gave it.

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside the Parker to see you

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Speaker 1: next week. Bad time asuals, pspecial,