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Speaker 1: From the berkshears 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 seven game, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What

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Speaker 2: a show we have for you. This week. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk to former Major league manager Bobby Valentine, who now

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Speaker 2: does the Angels pre and post game show.

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Speaker 3: We'll catch up with him.

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Speaker 2: Also from mlbbro dot com, we'll talk to senior writer

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Speaker 2: Kevin Moore, plus foul Affair, that and much more.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep

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

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 3: Number one.

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Speaker 2: I told you about the Tampa bay Rays when they

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Speaker 2: were winning every game and they opened the season.

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Speaker 3: I told you it was foo gazy.

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Speaker 2: Now they still in first place, they still have a

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Speaker 2: nice lead. But I'm telling you, coming into Wednesday, six

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Speaker 2: and four in their last ten, and I don't think

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Speaker 2: they're world beaters. I don't even think that for sure.

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Speaker 2: They're going to win the AL East. There's so many

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Speaker 2: good teams. All the teams are over five hundred in

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Speaker 2: that division. I'm just not convinced. And it was simply

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Speaker 2: a byproduct of them playing like the four worst teams

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Speaker 2: to start the season. And I give them credit. They

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Speaker 2: beat up on those teams. They hit home runs, they dominated.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they came out of the gate looking like

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Speaker 2: and all that other stuff.

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Speaker 3: And it's not the rip on the Rays. It's just that.

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Speaker 2: Given their start, they don't have some insurmountable lead. The

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Speaker 2: Orioles are right on their neck. The Yankees are within

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Speaker 2: five and a half coming into Wednesday on their necks.

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Speaker 2: So they got a lot of teams that are good,

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Speaker 2: and especially they weren't able to bury anybody. When you

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Speaker 2: win your first twelve thirteen games, I think it was

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Speaker 2: thirteen that they won, you should be in a driver's seat.

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Speaker 2: They are not in a driver's seat in the AL East.

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Speaker 2: And we'll see as this plays on, but I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: say it right here, right now, they do not and

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Speaker 3: Division number two.

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Speaker 2: Whenever you hear the name Ronald Lacuna Junior, you think

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Speaker 2: of greatness. I mean, this guy is an unbelievable ball

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Speaker 3: How about this. He's currently on pace to hit over

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Speaker 2: Runs and have sixty bags stolen, sixty steals, forty forties

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Speaker 2: alreadys impressive, thirty thirties impressive, But thirty sixty.

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Speaker 3: I don't know though, might be a little bit tainted.

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Speaker 2: Hear me out, the bases are big, They're like pizza

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Speaker 2: boxes out there. I'm not poo pooing his talent, but

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Speaker 2: everybody's stealing bases like it's crazy, at an incredible rate.

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Speaker 2: I know, through the first six weeks of the season,

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Speaker 2: it was like at an eighty three percent clip. Everybody

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Speaker 2: you that's incredible? It's like scoring in the NBA today.

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Speaker 2: It's you know how easy that is. Everybody's got twenty

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Speaker 3: Is that easy? No defense?

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Speaker 2: But the bigger bases have made it easier for people

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Speaker 2: Number three, without question, the pickup of JD. Martinez by

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Speaker 3: What spectacular the move of the offseason. If you will,

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Speaker 2: I thought JD. Martinez was done he left Boston. He

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Speaker 3: Who would have think that that JD.

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Speaker 2: And it explains why the Dodgers are off to another

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Speaker 2: This is definitely a bat that people had forgotten about.

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Speaker 3: We're so good.

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Speaker 2: Now let's welcome in former Major league manager Bobby Valentine,

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Speaker 2: who now does the Angels pre and postgame. Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the podcast, Bobby, How are you, Rob?

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Speaker 4: Always good to be with you. Thank you. How's it

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Speaker 4: going after a big Angel win?

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Speaker 2: I know big and the thumpers got involved two home

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Speaker 2: When those two guys are swinging, Bobby like they are,

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Speaker 2: I mean, Angels are tough to be, aren't they.

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Speaker 4: Well exactly, Rob, but you know, in the past they

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Speaker 4: much deeper, much better balanced, so everyone is contributing. And

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Speaker 4: actually the big boys had a little time off and

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Speaker 2: Speaking of the Angels, you know, the expectations always when

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Speaker 2: the question always comes they do the Angels have enough pitching? Yes,

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Speaker 2: O'tani got out the gate. He has been fantastic as

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Speaker 2: a number one, But do they have enough pitching to

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Speaker 3: The Al West?

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Speaker 2: You got the Astros and you got the Rangers leading

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Speaker 2: the division and de Gram's not even pitching for them.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, de Graam will be a big ad for them,

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Speaker 4: and the Angels have I mean, the Rangers have a

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about Otani.

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Speaker 2: We know the elephant in the room is that after

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Speaker 2: this year he can bounce. And if you're the Angels,

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Speaker 2: I guess Bobby, you have to just play out and

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Speaker 4: Well. I don't think it's going to be about the

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Speaker 4: If those things happen and happen all this year, I

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Speaker 4: think he'd be leaning towards staying because it's a wonderful

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Speaker 2: Our guest is Bobby Valentine, who, of course a former

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Speaker 2: major leaguer also a major league manager who won over

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Speaker 2: eleven hundred games in his career, over five one hundred

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge's almost the identical pace from a year ago,

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Speaker 3: Injury list this year.

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Speaker 2: How amazed are you at what he's able to do

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Speaker 2: because you know, last year the big debate was about

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Speaker 2: just seems Bobby, when he's in that lineup for the Yankees,

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Speaker 4: Well, he's a difference maker. He's probably you know, he's

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Speaker 4: power hitter in baseball right now. He's you know, six

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Speaker 4: So he's hard to match at the plate and on defense,

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Speaker 4: he's you know, one heck of a generation type of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he really is. He's something to watch, Bobby.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask you a couple other questions about two

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Speaker 2: I think they played the four worst teams in baseball

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Speaker 3: The NL, I mean the AL East, but.

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Speaker 4: People don't respect Tampa Bay. They've been one of the best,

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Speaker 4: They develop talent, they play the right way, their pitchers

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Speaker 3: Let's jump over to the National League.

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Speaker 2: Bobby and the San Diego Padres, who I picked in

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Speaker 3: I like their pitching off to a very very slow star.

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Speaker 2: It's too early to count anybody out in baseball, as

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Speaker 3: Last year they fired Joe Girardi and.

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Speaker 2: The Phillies got off to a slow start and they

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Speaker 3: Do you like the Padres or not?

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Speaker 4: I do like the Padres. You know, some teams take

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Speaker 4: You know, the Seattle Mariners actually came together last year

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Speaker 2: We're talking with Bobby Valentine, former major league manager here

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Speaker 3: Game, a day game, and Bobby.

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Speaker 2: His name is Bobby V. Bobby Valentine, longtime major league manager,

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Speaker 4: Rob. You're good man. Thanks for having me on continued success.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket protector centro. The analytic numbers

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Speaker 2: Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS, Analytics is

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Speaker 6: What that ball is?

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Speaker 1: It was a big week in the big leagues.

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Speaker 3: Who's Who's a don't believe it? Is it foul?

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge is once again putting up numbers almost identical

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Speaker 2: Is it foul or fa to say Aaron Judge is

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Speaker 1: That is a foul ball.

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Speaker 6: The career numbers still say it's Bonds, Hank, Aaron and

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Speaker 6: Between nineteen ninety eight and two thousand and one, however,

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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 3: Now let's welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 2: He's the senior writer at mlbbro dot com.

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Speaker 3: Kevin Moore, Kevin, welcome to the podcast. How are you.

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Speaker 7: I'm good right, I think, Thanks for having me on.

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about some guys playing real well in Major

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Speaker 2: League Baseball. Some MLB bros, including Aaron Judge, who keV

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Speaker 2: Coming into Wednesday, eighteen home runs, thirty nine RBIs batting

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Speaker 7: Some time exactly. Yeah, I mean you saying that he

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Speaker 2: It is amazing, especially with no G and Carlos stan

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Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I really think that Judge has really stepped

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Speaker 7: And then, you know, I think he's going to continue

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Speaker 2: So Aaron Judge doing his thing since he's come off

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Speaker 2: and Hunter Green in Cincinnati, Kevy finally got off the schnide,

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Speaker 7: Man, he looked really really good in that out and

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Speaker 7: I really think that he's starting to understand how he

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Speaker 7: So you know, he was he was really impressive against

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Speaker 2: mlbbro dot com. And now I definitely want to get

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Speaker 2: to Marcus Simeon the second basement for the Texas Rangers.

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Speaker 2: On Wednesday, Simeon extended his hitting streak to twenty keV.

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Speaker 3: He has been on fire this season him.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, like brothers than heat about to play. It's crazy,

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Speaker 7: You know, he's right ahead of what Freeman.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, he's doing he's doing with the doctor with

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: I'll gonna say, do you think last year, maybe you know,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, No, that's that's a great point you brought up,

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Speaker 7: because Simeon he never saw that kind of money before,

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Speaker 7: you know, and I think, you know, that pressure did

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Speaker 7: get get to him a little bit. I kind of

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Speaker 7: think he might have been overthinking a little bit. You know,

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Speaker 7: he wanted to be you know, wanted to be successful

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Speaker 7: and was just really thinking about that. It was kind

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Speaker 7: of getting to him, you know, on the field. But

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Speaker 7: now in the second year, he's starting to settle in

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Speaker 7: and relax, saying, Okay, I know how good I am

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Speaker 7: of a player and what I can do, and now

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Speaker 7: we're starting to see that in Texas. So I know

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Speaker 7: the Rangers are excited and elated to see and perform

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Speaker 7: it like this.

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Speaker 2: No doubt I picked the Rangers to win the Al

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Speaker 2: West and so forth, even without the GRAM They're they're

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Speaker 2: rolling along.

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Speaker 3: They got a good squad, a lot of offense.

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Speaker 2: His name is Kevin Moore from mlbbro dot com, the

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Speaker 2: senior writer. He also does some working right for MLB

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Speaker 2: dot com. So, keV, we're appreciated. Thanks for the insight,

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Speaker 2: no doubt.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Now bringing the closer, you know, here's why MLB it's

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Speaker 1: better than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.

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Speaker 2: Reason number nine hundred and ninety nine why Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball is better than the NFL or the NBA.

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Speaker 3: I experienced it.

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Speaker 2: I just went on an unbelievable bucket list vacation ten

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Speaker 2: straight Major league games in ten days in nine different cities.

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Speaker 2: Just I went to Chicago twice, went there, left, came back.

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Speaker 2: But what an experience and what a trip. Went through

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Speaker 2: some great baseball cities, and I don't care what anybody says.

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Speaker 2: You know, I've worked in nothing but great baseball cities.

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Speaker 2: I grew up in New York, I worked in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 2: I worked in Detroit, I work in Los Angeles, all

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Speaker 2: great baseball towns. But you know what, Saint Louis is

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Speaker 2: the baseball capital of the world. It really is. I

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Speaker 2: get people in Saint Louis so much credit. First of all,

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Speaker 2: they ran two NFL teams out of town, so that

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Speaker 2: goes for a lot, right, two teams left Saint Louis.

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Speaker 2: They love the Saint Louis Blues, their hockey team, and

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Speaker 2: they love the Saint Louis Cardinals.

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Speaker 3: You go to a game in which I did on

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Speaker 3: my trip, everybody wears red.

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Speaker 2: Saint Louis is like the sixtieth biggest city in the

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Speaker 2: United States, and yet they draw three million people every year.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible the passion for that franchise and that team.

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Speaker 3: And I know there are other.

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Speaker 2: Great cities, Boston, Philadelphia, I mentioned the other cities that

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Speaker 2: all love baseball as well, but I'm sorry, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to pick Saint Louis as the baseball capital.

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Speaker 3: Of the United States.

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Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 2: next time, Rob Parker out d can't Davin?

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Speaker 3: This could be an inside of Parker.

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Speaker 1: See you next week, same bat time, from same BATT station.