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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: on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number eighty three, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker. What a great show we

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Speaker 1: have for you today. Former Major League second baseman Billy

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Speaker 1: talk with him, plus Malik Write, a writer for MLB

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Speaker 1: bro dot com, plus foul or fair. Let's go up

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Speaker 1: 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, the New York Metropolitan should just

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Speaker 1: s S. So much going on, and you know it's

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Speaker 1: always a problem. But on Wednesday, the Mets found out

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Speaker 1: that there acting general manager Zach Scott was arrested on

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Speaker 1: indeed intoxicated. The Mets, uh, in a statement, said they

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Speaker 1: a mess. The Mets currently are number two. Show hey

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Speaker 1: oh Tani? How about show hey me the money? Oh

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Speaker 1: Tani continues to impress. On Tuesday night in Anaheim, he

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Speaker 1: a long time, but this has just been some kind

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Speaker 1: So that's pretty incredible. Number Three. I can't stop the

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Speaker 1: I know, I'm going back to the New York Mets,

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Speaker 1: M E s s New York mess and the players

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Speaker 1: Mets were in first place doing it with glue tape

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Speaker 1: these guys make a gazillion dollars. They think they're bulletproof.

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Speaker 1: They can do whatever they want. But Lindoor and Bias

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Speaker 1: You can never discount or disrespect the fans. They are

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Speaker 1: So good, All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast

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Speaker 1: Billy Ripkin, of course, the former major league second baseman

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Speaker 1: who is currently a studio host for the MLB Network. Billy,

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Speaker 1: thank you, welcome to the podcast, my friend, h Well,

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the National League West and the walk car.

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Speaker 1: And that's not to say the Giants are gonna fold.

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Speaker 1: How are you? I'm doing great, Rob, how are you?

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Speaker 1: Uh moleague, let's talk about the National League Wild Card. Uh,

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Speaker 1: bueler Um, it's it's and then like you said, it's

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Speaker 1: all those superstars, but for one game, you never know

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Speaker 1: if you get a good pitching performance on the other

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Speaker 1: team can just put up more runs than you. Last thing,

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Speaker 1: Malik tell me about the Chicago White So if they

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Speaker 1: got some pitching woes, obviously they're going to win the division.

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Speaker 1: Their head big time. Uh. People are expecting more from

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Speaker 1: the White Sox. They made the playoffs last year, you remember,

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Speaker 1: but they couldn't advance. Uh do you expect this team

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Speaker 1: how much does the pitching have to get better in

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Speaker 1: order for that to happen. Well, I think of a

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Speaker 1: huge part of them getting to the World Series is

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Speaker 1: the starting pitching. They had Lance land Cy young contender

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Speaker 1: you gotta looking at the Alito. But Alito has been

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Speaker 1: down lately. Um, yesterday Tuesday, I should say, um, oh,

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Speaker 1: Lance Lane went down with a little knee injury. Now,

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Speaker 1: they they have a big lead in their division, so

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Speaker 1: it's not a surprise that maybe you said a few

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Speaker 1: guys out, skip a few starts to get those guys

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Speaker 1: ready for the postseason. Don he came back from an injury,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't been himself what he was beforehand. Um, but

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Speaker 1: I think they're gonna need those guys to get healthy

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Speaker 1: because they're gonna be matched up against the Houston Astros

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Speaker 1: and that's one of the top hitting lineups in all

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Speaker 1: of the major leagues. I don't I don't think they

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Speaker 1: Sox I should say, struggle sometimes to put up runds

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Speaker 1: and and win games that they're um matched up against

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Speaker 1: equally better team. So, um, those guys bringing the gap

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Speaker 1: to Liam Hendricks and Craig Kimber will be important. All right.

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Speaker 1: His name is Malik Right from MLB broad dot com.

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Speaker 1: Check out his stuff on the site. Malik, were appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the knowledge, all right, man, appreciate it. Talk

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Speaker 1: to you still now, bring in the closer. Here's why

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Speaker 1: MLB is better than the NFL or NBA, and it

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Speaker 1: isn't even close. Reason number five hundred and nineteen why

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is better than the NBA and the NFL.

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Speaker 1: It's because of the strategy of the game. Game. I know,

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Speaker 1: people say, what strategy, just let the guys go out

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Speaker 1: there and swing for defences. No, this strategy in the game,

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Speaker 1: especially in the National League where they don't have the

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Speaker 1: d H. But we saw it, the strategy that went

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Speaker 1: into the Blake Snell decision with the Padres. Sure he

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Speaker 1: could go ahead and pitch a no hit or whatever

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Speaker 1: and give him a chance to do it, but they

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Speaker 1: need him to make the playoffs. Going into Wednesday, the

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Speaker 1: Padres were half a game up on the Reds for

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Speaker 1: that final wild card spot, and he has thrown over

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Speaker 1: a hundred pitchers, so they're just deciding we don't want

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Speaker 1: to burn him out. Of the game that we're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: Let's get him out of there and keep them fresh

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Speaker 1: for the final thirty days of the season. The Padres

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Speaker 1: need their pitching, they need all their guys, So that's

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Speaker 1: where the strategy comes in. I don't know if you

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Speaker 1: really see that in any other sport, but there's a

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Speaker 1: chess game, a chess match going on in baseball. That

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Speaker 1: was one of those decisions that people might shake their

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Speaker 1: head and look at it, but you know what, it

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Speaker 1: was probably the right decision because it's about the postseason.

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Speaker 1: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 1: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

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Speaker 1: next time. Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This

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Speaker 1: could be an inside the Parker to see you next week.

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Speaker 1: Save that time, Same Man Station,