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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 eighty three, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker. What a World Series audition

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Speaker 1: of the podcast coming your way. We'll talk with former

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Speaker 1: on games one and two. Also David Grub from MLB

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Speaker 1: bro dot com. He stops by with his thoughts about

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Speaker 1: the World Series as well, that and much more. Let's

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Speaker 1: go beat up to lead off, it's getting robbed to

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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. Coming into the

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Speaker 1: World Series, I went against the grain. I know that

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Speaker 1: everybody and their uncle are picking the Houston Astros to

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Speaker 1: going into Game three on Friday in Atlanta. Games three, four,

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Speaker 1: in six games, not seven, but six, and I think

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Speaker 1: it wasn't really close seven to two Wednesday night in Houston,

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Speaker 1: Definitely they could wind up closing this series out and

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Speaker 1: so good in the World Series number two. Enough already

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Speaker 1: we're trying to make excuses for the Astros. They cheated,

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Speaker 1: And here's the other thing. Some people are trying to

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Speaker 1: The Yankees who lost in that a LCS, they won't

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Speaker 1: And neither were those two teams fan bases that felt

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Speaker 1: hey O Tani, the pitching and hitting phenom of the

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Speaker 1: Big Interview. Listen Headler, Let's welcome into the podcast. Former

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Speaker 1: and their second best player, Freddie Freeman, hasn't been great offensively.

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Speaker 1: I mean they're not putting up a ton of runs

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But there I think that they they

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Speaker 1: know they're playing a with house money. They're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to be here, nobody expects him to be there, so

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Speaker 1: play free. And then at the second time, these are

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Speaker 1: not the guys who've lost all those games for the

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Speaker 1: Braves in the past. This is not that lineas this

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Speaker 1: is not um this is not their experience. And I

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Speaker 1: think going from where they were, where they had a

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Speaker 1: less than a two percent chance of making the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: not being over five until late July, and then getting

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Speaker 1: to where you are there and win in mode, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's what they know. Now every game has been a

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Speaker 1: playoff game for them for almost two months, so it

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Speaker 1: is this now, this is nothing new. There's no pressure.

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Speaker 1: You know, you have to go out there and do

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Speaker 1: what you've been doing. And I don't think any guy

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Speaker 1: individual night. It's do your job, move to move a

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Speaker 1: guy along when you get a chance to take advantage

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Speaker 1: of it. But they're not overly being overly risky. They

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Speaker 1: play solid defense and they do their jobs on a

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Speaker 1: day to day basis. They want to keep They're like,

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Speaker 1: they're like a football team that wants to run, run

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Speaker 1: the ball all day if they if it's five or

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Speaker 1: three to two, the Braves are happy. They just don't

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Speaker 1: want to get into these nine and nine to seven shootouts.

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Speaker 1: They won't win that. But as long as they play

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Speaker 1: it close like they have, they feel like they got

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Speaker 1: a chance to win. All right. Last thing, I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to put you on front street or blast you,

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Speaker 1: but I did see your prediction on mlb bro dot com.

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Speaker 1: You had the Astros winning in five games, four games

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Speaker 1: to one. It's one one the next three games we're

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Are you still feeling good about your pick?

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Speaker 1: Are probably got to modify it. I still feel good

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Speaker 1: about the Astros winning the series, but no, I'm not

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Speaker 1: as confident about this happening in five games. I think

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Speaker 1: you know now at the injuries and everything else, um,

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Speaker 1: it looks like a series that's much more likely to

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Speaker 1: go six or seven. I just would like to see

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Speaker 1: Dusty get this ring to cap off his career and

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Speaker 1: hopefully steal that the Hall of Fame resume. No doubt.

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Speaker 1: His name is David Grub. You can catch him on

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Speaker 1: the radio Crunch time with David grub one O three

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Speaker 1: them on MLB bro dot com. In the words of

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Speaker 1: New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you

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Speaker 1: for your time this time until next time. Rob Parker

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