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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 eighty three, Rob Parker. Welcome into another

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Speaker 1: edition of Inside the Parker. I'm your host, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 1: What a show we have for you this week. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk with veteran baseball writer Kevin Kernan from Ball

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Speaker 1: nine dot com. He's gonna talk to us about what's

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Speaker 1: going on in the Bronx with the Yankees. Also from

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Speaker 1: MLB bro dot com, Brandon Carr. We'll talk to us

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Speaker 1: about Bobby Bonilla day. Yes, it has come again. Let's

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

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Speaker 1: Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one, Oh hey me the money. Ohtani

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Speaker 1: Angels have come to town. And boy, what a performance

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Speaker 1: here we go again, the most hated team in baseball.

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Speaker 1: A longtime friend of mine. One of the best baseball

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Speaker 1: writers in the country. Kevin Kernan from Ball nine dot Comedy,

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Speaker 1: Always great to be raking it We've had If I

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Speaker 1: The Yankees have made a lot of mistakes Otani. They

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Speaker 1: on perspective Rob for everyone. Since two thousand three, the

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Speaker 1: Yankees have won as many World Series as the Marlins one.

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