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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 seventy six, 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. Hall of Fame right hand or

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Speaker 1: we'll catch up with Mets radio play by play announcer

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Speaker 1: how he rolls the hot streaking Mets will get his insight.

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Speaker 1: That plus foul affair. Let's go up to lead off.

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

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

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Speaker 1: one Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman has done it again.

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Speaker 1: For the second game in three days. He's paid back

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Speaker 1: his former team, the Atlanta Braids with a home run.

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Speaker 1: On Wednesday, he had a two run shot. Monday, he

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Speaker 1: And of course he is a California native and grew

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers had an afternoon game, but the NL West

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Speaker 1: so far looks like it could be a fight, a race,

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Speaker 1: I'm doing good. Thank you. Tell us about Greg. First,

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Speaker 1: the game changing with possibly electronics with a catcher and picture,

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket Protector Central, the analytic numbers

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Speaker 1: Siever is so great, Tom terrific, Hall of famer, the

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Speaker 1: Day tell me I'm wrong. Uh, You're never wrong to

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Speaker 1: He revered Jackie Robinson and the family felt very strongly

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Speaker 1: So I understand your feelings because many of us around

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Speaker 1: more enthusiastic in their response, Let's do it opening day.

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Speaker 1: Tom would love to be uh sharing the stage so

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Speaker 1: rob in in complete honesty that it was just a

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Speaker 1: then Jackie Robinson was not short changed at all. In fact,

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Speaker 1: Ceber family, who were one behind doing it the way

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Speaker 1: it was done. His name is Howie Rose, one of

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Speaker 1: the best in the business. Great voice, great friend mets

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Speaker 1: a long time radio broadcast to Hey, Howie, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much for joining the podcast. My pleasure robed be 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 1: Here's reason nine hundred and fifty five why baseball is

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Speaker 1: better than the NBA and the NFL, and it has

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Speaker 1: to do with fans and milestones. Miguel Cabrera entered Wednesday's

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Speaker 1: You remember last year when he was chasing the immortal

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Speaker 1: And of course he wind up not getting that home

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Speaker 1: run in Detroit. It was in Toronto. But Tiger fans

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Speaker 1: are hoping that they'll get a chance to see Cabrera

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Speaker 1: um get to three thousand hits and would make him

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Speaker 1: And he's also trying to do something else, which would

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Speaker 1: reach five hundred home runs and three thousand hits, that

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Speaker 1: is a magical, magical number. So that's what baseball fans

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Speaker 1: have to look forward to go into the ballpark and

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Speaker 1: see him moments like that. I don't think numbers matter

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Speaker 1: nearly as much in the NBA and NFL. Baseball is

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Speaker 1: still about numbers. In the words of New York TV

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Speaker 1: legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time

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Speaker 1: this time until next time. Rob Parker out. He can't

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Speaker 1: get it. This could be an inside of Parker to

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Speaker 1: see you next weekend, same bad time, same mass station.

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