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Speaker 1: From the Berke Shears to the sound from wherever you

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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 one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome into

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Speaker 1: the Inside the Parker Podcast. We have a great show

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Speaker 1: for you, including Blue Jay starter Edwin Jackson on the

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Speaker 1: cusp of making major League Baseball history with his fourteenth team.

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Speaker 1: Also Spectrum Sports Net l A announcer Cole Right. He'll

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Speaker 1: join us and tell us about the Dodgers, that and

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Speaker 1: much more. Rob Parker, here you there, Welcome into the show.

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Speaker 1: Let's go 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. His name is

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Speaker 1: George Springer with the Houston Astros. My goodness, who knew

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Speaker 1: that he had another level? But he has another level.

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Speaker 1: People remember him two years ago winning the World Series

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Speaker 1: As of Tuesday, batting three three four hundred on base

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Speaker 1: fifteen home runs in just forty two games. Are you ready?

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Speaker 1: Last year he and he had twenty two home runs

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Speaker 1: George Springer is the reason why Number two good news

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Speaker 1: for Angels fans show Heyatani still has that raw power.

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Speaker 1: He connected on his first blast of the season Monday night,

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Speaker 1: and fans want to see number three. I know it's early,

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Speaker 1: like a classic matchup of the guy who's only n

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Speaker 1: it's so good. Let's welcome in Toronto blue Jay's right

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Speaker 1: How are you doing? What's going on? How you doing? Man?

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Speaker 1: That plane like to as normal as usual? I know.

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Speaker 1: And on Wednesday, You're going to set a record for

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Speaker 1: believe this? Fourteen teams? Huh? Man? Who know? Who knew

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Speaker 1: for the Pocket Protector Central. The analytic numbers you need

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Speaker 1: to know, well maybe FS ones. Anthony Masterson is his name,

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Speaker 1: BS analytics is his game? What you got, Anthony? All right? Rob? Today,

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