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Speaker 1: with our weekly Inside the Parker podcast. I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker. Coming up on the program, we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: Number one, Mookie Betts and David Price coming to the

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Speaker 1: this isn't a great trade. It absolutely is for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: They get a big time right handed hitter, a guy

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers deserve better. This is a franchise that hasn't

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Speaker 1: I'm good man. So much to do spring trainings around

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of moving parts here. Where are you?

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Speaker 1: It's funny how you brought this up because we had

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Speaker 1: How it's almost perfect. You have that one wild card game,

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Speaker 1: It's almost that perfect format. And how great Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball is done of kind of not watering down the

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Speaker 1: World Series. Now we're talking about expanding the way the

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Speaker 1: don't see this gaining any traction. You gotta remember Rob

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Speaker 1: if you know, MLB can go out there and have

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Speaker 1: Players Union, the players have to agree on this, and

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Speaker 1: just judging and hearing the players on social media and

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Speaker 1: then talking to a couple of them right now, personally,

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Speaker 1: revisit certain things. But leaving the playoff format at it

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Speaker 1: as is is nearly perfect. You're not nothing's gonna be perfect.

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Speaker 1: I understand that, but leave it that is as it

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Speaker 1: is now because it's been exciting, especially the last seven

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Speaker 1: eight years, no doubt about it. All right, Jerry, always

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Speaker 1: a pleasure man. We'll be talking to you spring training

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Speaker 1: in pictures and catchers. Man, you can feel it in

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Speaker 1: the air. Can't wait, I can't wait. I can't wait

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Speaker 1: for another season dowdr baseball. All right, man, appreciate you,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much anytime. In the words of New York

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Speaker 1: TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thank you for your time,

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Speaker 1: this time until next time. Rob Parker out. He can't

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Speaker 1: get it. This could be an inside of Parker to

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Speaker 1: see you next weekend. Save bad time, Save Man station.

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