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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 seventy, 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 great show we have for you today. Ryan Kenny,

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Speaker 2: Yes BK from MLB Network and his show MLB Now,

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Speaker 2: joins us. He'll break down some numbers, talk about some teams,

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Speaker 2: plus foul a fair, 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 on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. Number one.

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Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna sound crazy, but I'm still going

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Speaker 2: to pick the Texas Rangers to win the AL West.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just because I made the pick before

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Speaker 2: the season started, and I get it. Their bullpen is

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Speaker 2: god awful. Just think about this. Coming into Wednesday, the

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Speaker 2: Texas bullpen had blown more saves twenty five than they

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Speaker 2: had converted I mean twenty four. What are the chances

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Speaker 2: of that that a team with a shaky bullpen leaky

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Speaker 2: But I do like the pieces parts of this team.

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Speaker 2: And yes, Jacob deGrom went down and got hurt, but

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Speaker 2: I love Simeon, I love Seeger. It's a good team.

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Speaker 2: They can score, they can mash, and they've been able

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Speaker 2: to weather the storm. I get it. People love the Maritors,

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Speaker 2: They're hot. People respect the Astros. They've been there, done that.

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Speaker 2: You know, they won the World Sea a year ago.

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Speaker 2: But the Rangers, I like what they did in the

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Speaker 2: this is real deal. I like the Rangers. I think

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Speaker 2: Number two jose L two Bay, the Houston Astro second baseman,

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Speaker 2: many people have done it, the first Astro to do

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Speaker 2: made some baseball history as well. Where a couple of

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Speaker 2: weeks ago he got his two thousand hit and get this,

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Speaker 2: Obviously, there's still a lot of baseball to go as

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Speaker 2: Still a month ago, nothing set in stone, but very

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Speaker 2: interesting happenings. This is a different year in baseball, different teams.

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Speaker 2: Teams we didn't expect to make the postseason look like

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Speaker 2: It's so good. Now let's welcome into the podcast. He

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Speaker 2: is the host of MLB Now on MLB Network, the

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Speaker 2: one and only Brian Kenny BK. What's up? Welcome to

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Speaker 2: the podcast, BK.

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Speaker 3: Now, I'm your guest. So you got here? We go

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Speaker 3: the whole New ball game.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. And yes I'm on Brian's show

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Speaker 2: b K. Let's get right into it. The Al West

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Speaker 2: before the season started, I pick the Texas Rangers. I

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Speaker 3: You know? I think it's it's kind of a crap shoot.

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Speaker 3: I was actually I was at the Rangers and Mets

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Speaker 3: So I think it's wide open. If I had to

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Speaker 2: I like Simeon a lot, and Segars bounced back nicely

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Speaker 3: Well, I like them, but I don't know if I

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Speaker 3: But it's dicey, you know you can we we did

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Speaker 3: Making twenty seven million or more? That's a super carrier

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Speaker 3: So I don't like that business model, but can it work?

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Speaker 2: talk about Mookie bevets me and you argued on your

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Speaker 3: Well, you say it as if like, oh, you were wrong.

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Speaker 3: like you tell me, I haven't studied it today. Bets

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Speaker 3: Freeman's an excellent base runner. He's not some immobile first baseman.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. His name is Brian Kenny, one of the

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Speaker 2: best in the business. You got all the numbers for you.

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Speaker 2: Check me out on his show every Thursday twelve fifteen.

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Speaker 2: I love doing a BK. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 3: Rob than thank you a pleasure. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: You know there you go, Oh yeah, that's right, the

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Speaker 3: The Barry Bonds of the Sports TV. Oh I thought

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Speaker 2: No dell, Thank you, BK.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you all, Rob, take care. It's time for the

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Speaker 1: Pocket Protector Centro. The analytic numbers you need to know?

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

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Speaker 4: We've got about one month left in the regular season,

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Speaker 1: Blaftball is it was a big week in the big leagues?

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Speaker 1: Who's a five? Is it foul or is it fair?

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Speaker 2: Is it foul or fair to say that Mookie Betts

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Speaker 5: beggars can't be choosers, right. Steals a backup and are

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Speaker 5: becoming common parts of the game again, which is what

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Speaker 5: all of us purists wanted. With a little power surge,

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Speaker 5: Akunya could possibly even go forty seventy. Now, that would

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Speaker 5: be amazing, But for now and for MVP, I'll take

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Speaker 5: the first thirty sixty season in MLB history. Mookie's been

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Speaker 5: of his team with Freddie Freeman there, you can't deny

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Speaker 1: Turn money into more money. Now it's time for betting

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Speaker 1: on the basis with Dave Gascot, Love that.

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Speaker 2: Money, Rob.

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Speaker 6: What's going on, Matt Brand new week in of Baseball?

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Speaker 6: After your lengthy vacation last week, but glad to have

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Speaker 6: you back or the dog days. There's summer coming to

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Speaker 6: a close, and now we get our eyes set on October.

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Speaker 6: We'll talk about this weekend's games. And first off, how

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Speaker 6: about the San Diego Padres, biggest frauds in Major League

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Speaker 6: Baseball this season? Did they win the World Series by

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Speaker 6: beating the Dodgers last year in the postseason? I think so.

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Speaker 6: We're not gonna touch the Padres for the rest of

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Speaker 6: the year, but we're gonna look at some teams over

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Speaker 6: the weekend. They're gonna take advantage of clubs that are

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Speaker 6: bailing on the rest of twenty twenty three. First off,

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Speaker 6: Yankees and Astros. Yankees sub five hundred, dead last the

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Speaker 6: American League East. I'm gonna take Houston. They have plenty

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Speaker 6: of things to play because of the American League West Astros, Mariners,

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Speaker 6: Rangers in a dog fight right now out West. Speaking

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Speaker 6: of the Texas Rangers, they're at home against the Minnesota Twins.

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Speaker 6: Max shuz Is gonna be on the bump for Texas.

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Speaker 6: I will take them as well, So the Astros, the Rangers,

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Speaker 6: and the know squad. I like because the Tampa Bay Rays,

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Speaker 6: I don't know how they're doing it, but they're hanging

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Speaker 6: tough in the American League East, a couple of games

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Speaker 6: back of the Baltimore Orioles without a starting rotation. They're

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Speaker 6: in Cleveland against the Guardians. That will take them Friday

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Speaker 6: night as well.

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Speaker 1: Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better

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

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Speaker 2: Reason number one hundred and fifty five why Major League

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

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Speaker 2: The waivers player. Good players get waved, they can still

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Speaker 2: help you. Don't see that in other sports in the

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Speaker 2: NBA of the NFL, where you could actually pick up

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Speaker 2: players who could help you in a postseason run. Angels

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Speaker 2: just let go of five players they waive them. Gialito

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Speaker 2: is a picture of the white Sox Tad who pitched

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Speaker 2: a no hitter, who was a big piece of their puzzle.

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Speaker 2: Now he's available for somebody if he clears waivers for

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Speaker 2: a team. In the NBA, it's always the players who

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Speaker 2: nobody wants anymore, gets waves very seldom, or that they

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Speaker 2: picked up maybe a big man every once in a

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Speaker 2: blue moon to get some rebounds. In the NFL, you

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Speaker 2: never see guys waves who are gonna come on and

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Speaker 2: be impact players. But there's always still hope in baseball

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Speaker 2: that you could add a piece at the very end

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Speaker 2: that could help you make your run, help you get

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Speaker 2: into the World Series, help you win a World Series.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a cool thing about the sport. In

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Speaker 2: the words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen,

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Speaker 2: thanking you for your time this time until next time,

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Speaker 2: Rob Parker out d Kid Davin.

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside the

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Speaker 3: Parker See you next week, same bat time, from the

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Speaker 3: same Matt's station.