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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 seventy, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What

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Speaker 2: a show we have for you today.

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Speaker 3: Rick Gioli, who's the senior baseball writer for the Athletic

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Speaker 3: She'll join us here on this very special postseason edition

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Speaker 3: of Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 4: Also from mlbbro dot com.

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Speaker 2: Sean Dorcellis he'll join us as well.

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep

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

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Speaker 2: Don't look now, but the team I picked before the

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Speaker 2: season started to win the en Don't look now, but

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Speaker 2: the team I picked before the season started to win

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Speaker 4: Is moving on in the playoffs. Wow, what a performance

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Speaker 4: by the Texas Rangers. You know what.

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Speaker 2: They choke down the division on the last day of

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Speaker 2: here we go Texas.

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Speaker 4: They're not for real, and what do they do.

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Speaker 2: They go to Tampa Bay and they sweep the best

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Speaker 4: They win Game two as well, and that's it. They

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty impressive thing when you think about where

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Speaker 2: the Texas Rangers have been.

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Speaker 4: Don't forget they've had injuries and they've lost major pitchers.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they traded for Max Schurzer.

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Speaker 2: He went down going after the often injured Jacob de Gram.

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Speaker 2: People said, don't do it, he'll get hurt, and guess what,

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Speaker 4: Jordan Montgomery was outstanding.

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Speaker 2: In Game one and you get a shut out in

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Speaker 2: impressive stuff. I like the Texas Rangers before the postseason started.

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Speaker 4: I mean, there's a long road ahead.

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Speaker 2: I'm not crowning them or anything, but boy, what an

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Speaker 4: And they're moving on and the Rays.

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Speaker 1: Are going home number two.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of the Rays, you remember I had my panties

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Speaker 4: And now we know the reason why.

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Speaker 2: Game one of the wild Card Series, guess how many

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Speaker 4: Did you hear me? Is this on nineteen nineteen? Again?

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Speaker 2: The Tampa Bay Rays are bad for baseball. I don't

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Speaker 4: How do you not show up to a playoff game?

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Speaker 2: It doesn't even makes sense. Remember the hot start this

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Speaker 1: Disgraceful Number three.

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Speaker 2: All right, don't forget the teams that won the divisions.

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Speaker 2: The best record right now, because because because the Brewers won,

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Speaker 2: Number three, the top two seeds in each division, of course,

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Speaker 4: The Dodgers every year is the same story. For me,

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Speaker 4: Because that's what could happen to the Dodgers. The Dodger fans.

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Speaker 2: Every year it's a crap shoot on whether or not

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Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn.

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Speaker 4: It's so good.

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Speaker 2: Now let's welcome into the podcast Britt Jioli, who's the

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Speaker 2: senior and MLB reporter for The Athletic Britt, thank you

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Speaker 2: and welcome to Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 4: Rob really appreciated, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: This is the best time of year, of course, October baseball.

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Speaker 2: But before we get into some players and some thing's

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Speaker 2: to quit, fired, whatever you want to use, And let's

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Speaker 2: year was a disaster. How surprised were you that they

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Speaker 6: I wasn't surprised because I think as soon as Vid

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Speaker 6: But I think really what they symbolize is is, you know,

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Speaker 6: I wasn't surprised that it happened. I was surprised when

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Speaker 6: He said Billy Eppler to deliver the message. Hey, you're

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Speaker 6: I thought that was cold. I thought that was gutless,

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Speaker 2: Totally agree, especially when a guy won one hundred and

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Speaker 2: I thought I liked his approach and what Buck was doing.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees didn't make the playoffs having won a World

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Speaker 4: It's been a long time, Britt.

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Speaker 2: How surprised are you to Aaron Boone's coming back and

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Speaker 6: Never have gotten anywhere close to this far in terms

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Speaker 6: That is not something that's going to fly at all

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Speaker 1: They bring in.

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Speaker 6: And I think that they probably need another name in

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Speaker 7: And I think when something grows that big rob it

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Speaker 7: The fans were, so I think for Minnesota this was big,

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Speaker 7: So, you know, Korea making that play in Game one,

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Speaker 2: Rob no doubt some rookies making names for themselves. We

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Speaker 2: Tell people about Evan Carter if they don't know who

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Speaker 5: And yes, he didn't.

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Speaker 7: has been a sensational story in watching him on this

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Speaker 4: No doubt it's going to be interesting.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to the October baseball to totally unfold. It's

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Speaker 2: already underway, Britt, and we appreciate you, appreciate your insight

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me, Rob.

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Speaker 4: Britt, thank you. That was good.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: Sorry again, I'm not usually this absent minded.

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Speaker 4: We'll see you down the road. Maybe I'll see you

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Speaker 4: at the World Series.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely will.

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Speaker 4: Okay, bye bye, all right, see you.

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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 2: All right, now, let's welcome in a content reporter from

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Speaker 4: He joins us here on Inside the Parker. Sean, what's happening?

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Speaker 4: How are you?

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Speaker 5: My main man, Rob, I'm doing well. How are you?

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Speaker 8: I'm very honored and excited to make my Inside the

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Speaker 4: No doubt, and you're the right guy for it.

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Speaker 2: On Wednesday, you did a social media video about Minnesota

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Speaker 2: Twins DH Royce Lewis, and I figured you'd be the

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Speaker 2: They've heard his name, the guy hit like four Grand

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Rob, absolutely, I mean Royce Lewis, as you mentioned,

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Speaker 8: He's torn his ACL twice since that twenty seventeen draft. Obviously,

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Speaker 8: He's been really the key guy here for Minnesota in

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Speaker 2: Think about what he did in his first postseason game,

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Speaker 2: He shook up the record books in baseball, didn't he.

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Speaker 5: He absolutely did.

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Speaker 8: He's only the third player to hit two homers in

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Speaker 8: I don't know if you know this, but they're eighteen

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Speaker 2: Last thing I know he's dhing in the postseason. He

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Speaker 4: Where do you see him?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I know they'll find a place for him

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Speaker 4: Do you think?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question, Rob.

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Speaker 8: He's got a knack for the moment. It's the clutch

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Speaker 8: And I think that he's gonna be a guy that

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Speaker 4: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: His name is Sean Dorcellis from mlbbro dot com. Thanks

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Speaker 5: Absolutely. Thanks for having me. Rob.

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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 one hundred and fifty five why Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL the postseason.

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Speaker 2: Turn the TV on in October. There's always a game on.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to watch reruns or judge Judy in

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Speaker 4: They got game. Just keep flipping.

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Speaker 2: I watched three of the four games yesterday without even trying,

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Speaker 2: It was great television and baseball, especially the postseason. You

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Speaker 2: you're glued. It's not like during the season where you

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Speaker 2: can kind of come in and out of a game

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Speaker 2: and go back to it like a soap opera.

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Speaker 4: You gotta watch that one walk, that one call strike.

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Speaker 4: It didn't get that you needed. Could be the difference.

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Speaker 2: You have to watch postseason baseball, and Baseball does a

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Speaker 2: good job putting it all on. They played yesterday, there's

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Speaker 2: no day breaking between and playing.

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Speaker 4: Tuesday. They're playing Wednesday. I love it. Action, nothing but action.

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Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 2: next time.

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Speaker 4: Rob Parker out, he can't get it. This could be

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Speaker 4: an inside of Parker.

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Speaker 1: See you next week, same bat time, same bat station,