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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 another edition

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Speaker 1: special day in baseball that always gets overlooked. That and

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Speaker 1: be clear about that. Yankees are looking at a hundred

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Speaker 1: Last thing, uh, Byron Buxton did something that had never

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Speaker 1: Can you speak to that? Oh my goodness, man. And

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Speaker 1: and this is the thing that I hate about analytics, Drob,

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Speaker 1: because you can't put a price on fundamentally sound, making

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Speaker 1: His name is Mark Gray. You need to check his

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Speaker 1: stuff out. He's an editor, one of the best, longtime

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you. Thank you, my brother. Hey, thank you bro.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure cat debatable on MLB bro dot com.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna rock the mic again this week now bringing

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Speaker 1: the closer. Here's why MLB is better than the NFL

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Speaker 1: or NBA, and it isn't even close. Reason number five

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Speaker 1: course the top ranked picture according to MLB Pipeline and UH.

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Speaker 1: This kid is uh. You know, one of those guys

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not like the n P and the NBA,

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Speaker 1: have been waiting for this kid. And Wednesday night he

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Speaker 1: was at Fenway Park and you could imagine it was electric.

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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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