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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, our two debut of Inside

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Speaker 1: the Parker. Happy New Year to all you baseball fans.

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Speaker 1: Coming up on a program, I'll reveal my Baseball Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame ballot. You want to stick around for that,

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Speaker 1: Plus we'll talk with j R. Gamble, the managing editor

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Speaker 1: of MLB bro dot com. That and much more. Let's

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Speaker 1: go up to lead off. It's getting robbed to keep

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

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. Number on the Baseball Lockout rolls on.

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Speaker 1: We gotta have hope as we get into the new

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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 1: the managing editor of MLB bro dot com. Happy New Year, Jr.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast, my man, Happy New Year, Rob.

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