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

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Speaker 1: live in mL ME America. This is Inside the Parker.

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Speaker 1: You give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you

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Speaker 1: the scoop on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame voter number one oh three, Rob Parker. Welcome

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Speaker 1: into Inside the Parker. Coming up on the podcast, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk with Philly's outfielder Andrew McCutcheon. Plus we'll talk with

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Speaker 1: Red's Hall of Fame legendary broadcaster Marty Brennaman that and

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Speaker 1: so much more. Let's go up to lead off. It's

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Speaker 1: getting robbed and keep him on. Rob's hot take on

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Speaker 1: the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one,

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Speaker 1: Justin Verlander is historic. We already know the career has

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Speaker 1: had so far. He's won a syd Young Award, was

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Speaker 1: World Series title, and he's probably headed to the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame with the career has had so far. But

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Speaker 1: this past week, Justin Verlander passed Cy Young and moved

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Speaker 1: into twenty first place on the all time strikeout list.

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Speaker 1: Where two thousand, eight hundred and seven do you hear

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Speaker 1: what I said. He passed by young. He passed the

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Speaker 1: guy that the greatest pitching award is named after. What

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Speaker 1: a career Justin Verlander is having. There was a point

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Speaker 1: in Detroit when I thought his career was down the tubes,

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Speaker 1: going nowhere fast. He has turned it around. In Houston,

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Speaker 1: Justin Verlander is on his way to Cooper's town Number two.

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Speaker 1: Say it isn't so. Tom Brady, the Patriots quarterback, has

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Speaker 1: the nerve to try to take one of the most

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Speaker 1: iconic trademark names of a player ever. That's right. It

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Speaker 1: has been revealed that Tom Brady has sought the trademark

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Speaker 1: to Tom Terrific. Anybody who's a baseball fan, and anybody

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Speaker 1: who grew up in New York and anybody who loved

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Speaker 1: the New York Mets knows that that name belongs to

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame picture Tom Seaver. Yet Tom Brady's trying

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Speaker 1: to weisele in on it, to cash out on the

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Speaker 1: moniker Tom Terrific. In addition, Tom Brady's also trying to

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Speaker 1: coin touched out Tom the comeback Kid. All kinds of things, Tom,

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Speaker 1: you can have them all, but Tom you cannot n

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Speaker 1: ot have Tom terrific number three. Pete Rose was one

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Speaker 1: of the greatest hitters that baseball has ever seen, the

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Speaker 1: all time hit king, but he just can't get out

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Speaker 1: of his own way. In his new book Playing Hungry,

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Speaker 1: The Making of a Baseball Player, Pete talks about the

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Speaker 1: gambling that was a part of his career, which of

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Speaker 1: course led to his banishment from baseball. Pete, give it

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Speaker 1: a rest. What are you doing? Why do you continue

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Speaker 1: to do this to yourself? You belonged in the Baseball

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Had you come clean, admitted to your mistake,

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Speaker 1: you would probably be in a baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: right now. Pete, stop hurting yourself, Stop writing about gambling

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Speaker 1: and baseball. And here's a bonus item number four. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: in baseball, we saw a young girl hit by a

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Speaker 1: baseball in the stands at the Cubs game. Terrible. UM

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Speaker 1: all about safety when it comes to baseball, but I

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Speaker 1: must admit watching a game through a net isn't what

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Speaker 1: I would like to do. There's talk that maybe they

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Speaker 1: it's so good news. Tuesday came out that Phillies outfield

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Speaker 1: this team in the movies that they made, they were

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Speaker 1: Pocket Protector Centraum. The analytic numbers you need to know, well,

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Speaker 1: is his game, Anthony. The Major League Baseball Draft was Monday.

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